noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a full life
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Before her illness, Rose enjoyed a full life .
a hard life
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She’s had a hard life .
a life member (= one who has paid to be a member for their whole life )
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a life member of the Royal Academy of Artists
a life of luxury
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It was difficult to give up a life of luxury.
a life policy/life insurance policy (= one that will pay out money if you die )
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New homeowners must usually buy a life policy before they can get a mortgage.
a life policy/life insurance policy (= one that will pay out money if you die )
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New homeowners must usually buy a life policy before they can get a mortgage.
a life sentence (= prison for the rest of your life, or a very long time )
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In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman.
a normal life
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All I want is to lead a happy, normal life.
a species lives somewhere (= used about animals )
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Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
adult life
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He lived most of his adult life in Scotland.
affect...lives
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decisions which affect our lives
all your life/all day/all year etc (= during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc )
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He had worked all his life in the mine.
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The boys played video games all day.
an active life
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He lived a full and active life.
battery life (= how long a battery produces electricity )
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My old phone had a longer battery life.
be in fear of/for your life (= be afraid that you may be killed )
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Celia was in fear of her life when she saw the truck coming toward her.
be scarred for life (= get a permanent scar )
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A little girl has been scarred for life in a tragic playground accident.
become a way of life
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For Mark, travelling has become a way of life .
blameless life
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She had led a blameless life .
branded...for life
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Stealing that money has branded Jim for life – no one will trust him again.
change of life
city life
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the advantages of city life
closed society/world/way of life
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Venetian art in this period was a closed world.
colourful history/past/career/life
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Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career.
contemporary life
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the complexity of contemporary life
domestic life
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She enjoyed domestic life and bringing up three children.
double life
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Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
easy life
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On the whole, Dad has had an easy life .
elixir of life
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the search for the elixir of life
endangers...life
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Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life .
enrich...life
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Education can greatly enrich your life .
escape with your life (= escape and not be killed )
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When the tunnel collapsed, the men were lucky to escape with their lives.
everyday life
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the problems of everyday life
fact of life
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Mass unemployment seems to be a fact of life nowadays.
family life
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Some people believe that television is destroying family life.
fear for sb’s safety/life
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a terrifying ordeal in which she feared for her life
fighting for...life (= trying to stay alive )
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Stockley is fighting for his life , with serious head injuries.
frighten sb to death/frighten the life out of sb (= make someone feel extremely afraid )
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He drove at a speed which frightened Lara to death.
from every walk of life/from all walks of life
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Our volunteers include people from all walks of life.
from every walk of life/from all walks of life
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Our volunteers include people from all walks of life.
get the shock of your life (= get a very big shock )
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He got the shock of his life when he found out who I was.
home life
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These children need a proper home life .
human life
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I firmly believe in the sanctity of all human life.
humdrum existence/job/life etc
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the prisoners’ humdrum routine
hung on for dear life
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She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life .
in real life
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Things don’t happen quite that easily in real life .
in the prime of life
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a man in the prime of life
intelligent life
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forms of intelligent life
island life
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He had become used to the slow pace of island life.
jail sb for two months/six years/life etc
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They ought to jail her killer for life.
Jaws of Life
lead a double life (= deceive people by keeping different parts of your life separate and not letting anyone know the whole truth )
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Joe had been leading a double life, seeing an ex-model while his wife believed he was on business.
lead a life of luxury/poverty etc
lead a normal/quiet/busy etc life
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If the operation succeeds, Carly will be able to lead a normal life.
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He has led a charmed life been very fortunate .
lead the life of a ...
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She now leads the life of a recluse.
lead/live a double life
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Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
life assurance
life belt
life buoy
life choice
life coach
life cycle
life expectancy
life experience (= experience that comes from life )
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As an older parent, your life experience is one of your greatest assets.
life form
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life forms on other planets
life history
life imprisonment
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life imprisonment
life in the fast lane
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Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane .
life in the raw
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He went on the streets to experience life in the raw .
life insurance
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Surprisingly few families have adequate life insurance.
life insurance
Life is never dull when
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Life is never dull when Elizabeth is here.
Life is not...a barrel of laughs
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Life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment.
life jacket
life peer
life preserver
life raft
life science
life sentence
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Miller is serving a life sentence for murder.
life span
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Captivity vastly reduces the life span of whales.
life story
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She insisted on telling me her whole life story .
life support system
life vest
live a normal life
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He’s not well enough to live a normal life .
live a quiet/active/healthy etc life
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She lives a very busy life.
live the life of
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He had chosen to live the life of a monk.
live...life
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I just want to live my life in my own way.
lives alone
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She lives alone .
lives in dread of (= is continuously very afraid of )
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She lives in dread of the disease returning.
living a life of luxury
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She’s now in Hollywood living a life of luxury .
living life to the full
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Ed believes in living life to the full .
lonely life/existence
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He led a lonely life with few friends.
loss of life
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The war has led to a tragic loss of life .
love life
low life
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a novel about low life in Chicago in the 1930s
made...life hell
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My mother made my life hell .
make life easy for ourselves
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Why don’t we make life easy for ourselves and finish it tomorrow?
make life miserable
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Mosquito bites can make life miserable .
make life/things difficult for sb (= cause problems for someone )
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She’s doing everything she can to make life difficult for him.
marine life
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the enormous variety of marine life
married life
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Throughout her married life, her husband’s interests had come first.
mission in life
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His main mission in life is to earn as much money as possible.
modern life
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These problems are a major part of modern life.
never in all my life (= used to emphasize how bad something was )
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Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated.
ordinary life
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Art should be part of ordinary life .
philosophy of life
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The idea that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you is a fine philosophy of life .
plant life (= plants )
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All but the dirtiest of rivers support some plant life.
political life
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At that time women were excluded from the political life of the country.
pond life (= things that live in ponds )
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The children are studying pond life this term.
private life
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He enjoys everything he does in both his professional and his private life .
put sb/sb’s life in danger
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Firemen put their own lives in danger as part of their job.
quiet life
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He wants a quiet life , while she wants to go out partying.
ran for...life (= ran in order to avoid being killed )
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Jane struggled free and ran for her life .
rebuild...lives (= live normally again after something bad has happened )
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We try to help them rebuild their lives .
retire from public life
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Her drink problem has forced her to retire from public life .
right to life
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Every unborn child has a right to life.
risk life and limb (= risk your life and health )
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Why risk life and limb jumping out of a plane just to raise money for charity?
risked...life
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He risked his life helping others to escape.
rules...life
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the passion for power and success which rules her life
save...life
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a new treatment that could save his life
sb's social life (= activities that involve being with other people for pleasure )
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Teenagers enjoy an active social life.
sb’s early childhood/adolescence/life (= when someone is a young child, adolescent etc )
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We’ve known each other since early childhood.
sb’s personal life
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I’ve got to maintain a balance between my personal life and my work.
sb’s professional life
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At this point she took the biggest risk of her professional life.
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (= scare someone very much )
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The alarm scared the hell out of me.
Second Life
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc
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health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles
serving...life sentence
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Miller is serving a life sentence for murder.
sex life
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an active and fulfilling sex life
shelf life
signing away...life
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I felt as if I was signing away my life.
spared...life
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the soldier who had spared his life
spark of life (= quality of energy )
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McKellen’s performance gives the play its spark of life .
spent...working life
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He spent all his working life in a factory.
sth’s life cycle (= the stages of life that happen in order )
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Dragonflies develop wings in the last stage of their life cycle.
still life
student life (= the way of life of university and college students )
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Parties are an important part of student life.
telling...life story
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She insisted on telling me her whole life story .
the American/British etc way of life
the bane of...life
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Her brother is the bane of her life .
the course of history/sb’s life etc
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Changing conditions shape the course of evolution.
the pace of life
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Here, the sun shines every day and the pace of life is slower.
told...the facts of life
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Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve.
traditional way of life
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The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.
village life (= all the activities in a village )
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She had always taken an active part in village life.
walk of life
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Our volunteers include people from all walks of life.
way of life
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The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.
zest for life
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She had a great zest for life .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.
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The best demonstration that an academic person cares about others is sharing an active intellectual life .
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All that mattered was the retention of an active way of life that would maintain the stimulus to individual self-development.
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Within the limits of the canons' active pastoral life , Chrodegang stressed the communal liturgy.
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Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen.
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He withdrew from active life and retired to Kenilworth where on the 4 January 1927 he died at the age of seventy-seven.
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Even though they were retired, they had been leading a very active life .
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Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life .
adult
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Being overweight, when young or in your adult life . 3.
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I have cared for others all of my adult life .
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Thus the simple but overall goal is that children should grow up properly equipped for adult life .
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I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life .
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In addition to marriage, many people say that raising children is perhaps the single most maturing experience in their adult lives .
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Though leading outwardly normal lives , many from the Kindertransporte were still subject to emotional repercussions long into adult life.
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Louis, Ray has spent most of his adult life behind bars.
daily
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With complete honesty these works convey the realities of daily life .
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Going about my daily life , I certainly never told them aloud and never even alluded to them.
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But do you not think the life of the Thirties, the daily life, was much more terrible?
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So reality is portrayed as a series of crises and cliff-hanger plotlines, as opposed to the plodding process of daily life .
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If daily life was difficult, public duties were a nightmare.
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Every facet of daily life was subject to a set of rigid institutional controls and physical sanctions entirely new to human experience.
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She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life .
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The daily lives of the patients are not scheduled by staff; participation in treatment and rehabilitation programs is voluntary.
early
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Despite the primacy of its influence, socialisation in the early years of life is not confined to the family, however.
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Little is known of his early life .
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For most of her early life Vysokogorets-Dostoevskaya was oblivious to the status of her great-grandfather.
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At the beginning of his testimony Friday, Simpson described his earlier life , his rise from projects to athletic stardom.
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This act of betrayal is perhaps a more real reason for O'Brian's reluctance to talk about his early life .
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These were the things our minister preached to us every Sunday of my early life .
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Inappropriate medical management of these cases can cause food refusal later because of inappropriate feeding experiences during early life .
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Also known as Levi; no records of his early life .
everyday
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He was equable and a pessimist and very gay in everyday life .
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For example, the constructions can be found everywhere in everyday life .
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The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.
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National character supposedly reflects the everyday life that finds its way into the culture.
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For example, we already know the physical laws that govern everything that we experience in everyday life .
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People have plenty of warnings in their everyday lives .
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I can cope with him and everyday life now.
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Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community.
full
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She had lived a very full life .
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I felt full of life and my commitment to activism was, for me, a rejection of death.
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But you're not one of them, Shae - you're too warm, too full of life .
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Inside, the place was warm, inviting and full of life .
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Their characters do not seem to lead full , emotional lives .
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Perhaps if my parents had not died so early, I might have been able to live a full life .
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The plump girl, who had been so full of life , was killed in the same way as the earlier victims.
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This is because we have withheld from them the full elixir of life .
human
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I believe firmly in the sanctity of human life-all human life.
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The contest between rival visions of the meaning of human life was about to begin.
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Politicians often claim that human life is beyond economic calculation and must be given absolute priority whatever the cost.
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Underneath there persists, powerfully too, a thick sense of what is normal for human life .
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Nothing is sacred the United Nations flag, the Red Cross, and least of all human life .
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As a result, those four decades seem utterly normative to us, the only conceivable pattern for human life .
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Yet it is by no means the only, or the first, function of language in human life .
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Having disposed of one great story which gave coherence to human life , Western culture substituted another called scientific progress.
late
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Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position.
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They gave him something he needed late in life , and he gave them something they needed early in theirs.
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In later life his philanthropic deeds were legion.
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But, though large, the book is not, like Welles in later life , overweight.
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However, the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme.
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For these serious psychiatric conditions the onset of new cases in later life appears to be very rare.
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He certainly enjoyed perfect health, helped, he claimed, by being a teetotaller and in later life a vegetarian.
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A second influence has been the developing interest in the differences in later life experience between men and women.
long
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It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s.
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That hour, how-ever, would be one of the longest of their lives .
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On the other hand warrants invariably start out with much longer lives and are exercised on dates predetermined by the issuing company.
modern
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The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.
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I tried to find the plastic value of these fragments of our modern life .
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Cumulative selection is the key to all our modern explanations of life .
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Singles may be peripheral in a sense; but their experience is central to the enigmas of modern life .
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We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.
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Such was its seductive hold that it could seem as if all of modern life was bewitched by a Taylorist demon.
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But in practice, modern Earthly life is a protege of water, as much as it is of carbon.
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As options and the means of accessing them have multiplied, change has become a generally congenial rule of modern life .
new
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Start planning your new career and life today.
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Eggs are an international symbol of Easter, the sign of rebirth and new life .
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I would have a completely new life that was pleasant enough.
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But new exquisite life can't inhabit such places.
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And, on the other hand, he believed that his anguish would give it new strength and new life .
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The Jones family set sail for a new life .
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Monroe Presley likes to dream of what his new life will be like.
normal
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But I've benefited enormously from having a stable, normal home life .
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Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives , fully recovered.
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Harry will probably get over his affection for Lucy once we return to a normal life again.
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In the ocean they live to be 40, double their normal life expectancy in captivity.
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She can lead an almost totally normal life .
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From then on, any semblance of normal life became impossible.
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I don't want a lonely life , just a normal family life again.
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Clare was surprised to find how much money it cost to lead what she considered a normal life .
ordinary
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Nevertheless the Hena villagers, in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers.
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We hear from their parents and siblings about their ordinary lives and varied personalities, and about their final hours.
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I mean, live an ordinary life .
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People often display powers in time of fire that they would never dream of in ordinary life .
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Any revolutionary aspirations of the younger members are centred on gaining work and admittance to the mainstream of ordinary life .
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In a study of everyday or ordinary life the scholar can go beyond the ordinary because the people studied do.
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It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult.
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The fluctuations, then, are well within the range of ordinary urban life and hardly noticeable to humans.
personal
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Fonda has played almost as many roles in her personal life as she has in film.
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And finally, there was my personal life , which was separate from the family and work.
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She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
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The truly scientific mind can also be open to forms of truth which lie in the area of personal life and relationships.
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Our business and personal lives depend upon being able to use words successfully.
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With Osterlind he discussed art and philosophy but not his personal life .
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Everyone needs to be able to integrate work with personal life .
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I may be too strongly associated in Voznesensky's mind with a complicated period in his personal life .
political
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It is the candid chronicle of a long and distinguished political life .
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But the more Dole succeeded in his political life , the more his marriage deteriorated.
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Not many other people in Texas political life were beating his drum.
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Mr Major and his Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night in the greatest crisis they have faced.
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Men would be swayed to this action or that; economic and political life would be erratic and rudderless.
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The Hanoverian kings were not uninterested in political life but they had difficulty comprehending the complexities of domestic and foreign affairs.
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The soccer mom walks out a happy customer and a political ally for life .
private
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Erecting and maintaining barriers between the public and private aspects of life demands energy and vigilance.
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Individuals were encouraged to relate politics to every aspect of their public and private lives .
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The effects of alcohol misuse spill over from private life into the workplace, causing inefficiency and accidents as well as absenteeism.
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Herrera, anxious to return to private life and to recuperate from his recent illness, again refused.
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His determination to ensure his private life remained private kept him hidden off screen.
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But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work.
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This obliges countries to respect an individual's private and family life .
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Everyone is entitled to some private life .
public
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In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life .
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It is probably too soon to know what effect the Rich case might have on his prospects in public life .
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Dali's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision.
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What fosters the Terrells' sizable contributions to public life is money, old money and vast money.
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It went far beyond her role as a woman in public life .
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It presents us with an important catharsis that we should hope never becomes the town square of public life .
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At present, few opportunities exist for citizens to act as participants in public life .
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In public life his guiding principles were Protestantism and protectionism.
real
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And yet, on a mature view, do not all these fragments suggest the pressures of real life ?
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Drama, after all, is not real life .
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They are treating people in a real life context.
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In real life , Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death.
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The Internet is no substitute for real life but it's great for fighting off boredom.
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Both Kemp and Gore referred to real life people to illustrate their points.
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More detailed than real life , more exact, more real.
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Q: Are you a cheerleader in real life ?
social
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Allowing home and social lives to wither means that there are no other sources of support when work fails.
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These children may be passive and have difficulty taking charge of their social life .
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For some there is the enjoyment of the social life which may be offered by the Church and its musicians.
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Thus the study of the political world is of crucial importance to the creation of humane social life .
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Roles provide social life with order and predictability.
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Alcohol provided a social life for Dad as well as an escape.
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Not altering your own social life and neglecting your own friendships.
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He would state all these things and would add that Citizen Oswald takes no part in the social life of the shop.
well
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There were better things in life , for a young man like him, than plodding round London after a pick-pocket.
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Cricket represented a better life for their children.
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When she got pregnant again, she decided she wanted a better life for her child.
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Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life .
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She tries to shepherd a reluctant gang member named Howie through the system and into a better life .
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I hope you and Cyril are well and enjoying life .
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Nowadays parents work real hard so that they can have a better life than their parents had.
whole
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His whole life was lived at the mercy of the second favourite planet.
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To me in my whole life , if you keep score, you have to be the best.
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That had never happened to her in her whole life before.
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Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!
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It was to have a big effect on my whole life .
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Her whole life had been locked to geometries.
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But a whole way of life leads up to that moment of departure-and the song is a symbol of it.
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They would not understand what a bitter struggle my whole life has been.
■ NOUN
assurance
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These illustrations should not be used as a basis for comparing similar policies issued by other life assurance companies or Friendly Societies.
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They can buy life assurance companies, run unit trusts and take over or start stockbroking firms.
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Takeovers and mergers continue to take place within the life assurance sector.
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And of course, also increase the life assurance protection for your family.
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Priorities Plus combines life assurance with critical illness cover.
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The move implements cancellation provisions contained in the second and third life assurance directive.
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The amount of each encashment will depend upon your age at that time and the amount of life assurance .
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In December the last hope, life assurance giant Prudential, pulled out.
cycle
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Ostertagia ostertagi O. ostertagi has a direct life cycle .
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Their life cycle is much like that of ferns.
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Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle .
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The 1990s will be an age of niche markets, intense competition, and extremely short product life cycles .
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However, the complex life cycle and the effects of the virus on the immune system make this a very difficult task.
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Plant cover crops such as cereal rye to add organic matter and disrupt the life cycle of root knot nematodes.
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Both free-living and parasitic phases of the life cycle are similar to those of the bovine species.
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The current interpretation is essentially a compromise between these two extremes, the life cycle interpretation.
expectancy
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Despite these problems most people get by and have a life expectancy of about 70 to 80 years.
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Due to life expectancy these boilers have not been priced for conversion.
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Their life expectancy may be less than the national average, and they may be more susceptible to illness and disease.
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Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years - even if they have daily injections of insulin.
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They frequently suffer chest infections and have a low life expectancy .
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Second, Aids has slashed life expectancy in many countries, killing the most economically productive generation and leaving orphans and elderly.
family
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She warned that family life was increasingly under threat from debt and house repossession.
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This one, because it explores living family life in a new way, is more collective than most.
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The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life .
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Mom wears an apron and a smile, looking fully ensconced in family life .
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It is without television that our family life would be destroyed.
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Rousseau called for reforms in state, church, education, family life and marriage.
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It reflects the inviolability of family life that in our society helps to mask the darker side of caring and dependency.
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Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives , they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
imprisonment
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I mentioned the sentence of life imprisonment and the unlimited fines that are available for crimes involving knives.
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If convicted, Kordic faces up to life imprisonment .
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Astiz has already been sentenced, in absentia, to life imprisonment by a Paris court.
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I think life imprisonment with hard labor is really important.
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Two former students were sentenced inabsentia to life imprisonment .
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New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
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Gen Krstic faces life imprisonment if the final verdict, due in the first half of next year, is guilty.
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He insisted their sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment .
insurance
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Finally, life insurance to protect your loan is vital.
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In addition, a number of books on life insurance are readily available at public libraries.
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Conditions of service are good with a contributory pension scheme, subsidised canteen and free life insurance .
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As for price competition, it is about as real and intelligible as it is in the life insurance or banking fields.
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Green was set to gain £120,000 in life insurance on his wife, the court heard.
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These calls and mailings are probably selling living trusts, annuities, life insurance or a combination of these.
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And even if you already have private medical insurance and life insurance, you may still need Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard.
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Families with young children typically do need life insurance .
sentence
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John Shaw, the elected prisoners' chairman of D-wing tells John Earle, a life sentence inmate, what to expect.
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Stiner and his brother, George, were convicted for murder and received life sentences .
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She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son.
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Saldivar claimed she fired her gun accidentally, but she was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence .
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Smart, 30, is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.
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If convicted, the alleged drug lord could face several life sentences .
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Nilson is serving a life sentence after he admitted killing 15 or 16 men.
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Eslaminia is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole at Folsom Prison.
story
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This is an epic of Oprah's age, with an engaging heroine whose life story is well-made, but essentially insignificant.
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Major newspapers and national magazines will be telling and retelling his life story .
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Weekly budgets don't tell life stories .
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Often families, like the patients, floundered in their efforts to adapt to new roles and changed life stories .
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His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs.
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Cornell was the most autobiographical of artists, for ever relating his life story -- or lack of one -- in his work.
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It was Bruno Morenz's life story .
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His platform is his life story and his political career.
■ VERB
affect
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What happens in another country can within seconds affect life in our own country.
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The strange, eerie story of an ancient love so strong that it affects the lives of those in the present.
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Collins is the amorous object of a football referee's fantasy which affects his professional life on the field.
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The group fears that the change in regulations would lead to more ocean dumping which could adversely affect sea life and beaches.
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On a wider front secularism has affected our lives in a variety of ways.
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These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.
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Police say they have to make decisions affecting hundreds of lives in minutes.
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Naturally, we hope every citizen will vote, a simple obligation of democracy with results that profoundly affect our lives .
bring
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They too are part of the Nature which brings life into being.
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An ad campaign brought to life .
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But Chris - Chris had brought him back to life .
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Because it was done with respect for the music, and with a fresh approach that brought it life all over again.
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It brings a lot of life to the town.
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He was dead, and remained dead until brought back to life by Rhea.
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He needs something to bring him back to life something to live for.
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Artisans needed more than just fertile imaginations and a soft touch with a trowel to bring their work to life .
change
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It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam.
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My work has changed my life .
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Mike Rowbottom reports on how the inmates work together to change their lives in part two of our series, Inside Story.
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In addition, of course, working toward a meaningful life goal changes the feeling of life very greatly.
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Any time we set out to change our lives or the world, we have to take the long view.
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Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter, an uncontrollable teenager whose hidden past holds the key to changing his life .
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What happened after the war changed my course of life .
claim
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The feud has so far claimed five lives .
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They scrub because if war claimed their lives , these volunteers would want some one to care for their memory, too.
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Its independence campaign has claimed nearly 800 lives since 1968.
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One military intelligence soldier fired on a months ago claiming he felt his life was threatened.
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It may yet claim other lives !
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That assault claimed five lives and injured many others.
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This crevasse alone has claimed 18 lives .
lead
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They can be real and strong, affecting the way we lead our lives .
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So I led a peaceable life , isolated from the intermittent scientific squabbles over who had first rights to which animals.
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It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normal married life .
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Mendl will give me a home, he wants children, he wants to lead a normal life .
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They lead medieval-style lives of appalling hardship.
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A slightly revised theory of the ignorance of paternity involves the idea that women and men led largely separate lives .
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The travellers say they should be allowed to lead a nomadic life .
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Though I myself led a licentious life , the licentiousness of the women nevertheless shocked me.
live
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Today, people are living longer and healthier lives .
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More recently, the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children.
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Like anyone who has lived most of his life in relative obscurity, Payne remains uncomfortable with public scrutiny.
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We've lived such different lives , Shelley, but the moment we were together it didn't matter at all.
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He lived his separate life and she waited for him to falter and slip back into alcohol.
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For official artists it meant living a privileged life .
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You can be your own man. Live your own life .
lose
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Nevertheless, unless there's some cooperation between us, your daughter could lose her life .
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Almost losing his life in his effort at reformation, Andrew joined the Theatines.
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There was a quietness about her that Mary had seen before when people were losing their hold on life .
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Many princes tried and failed, and so they lost their lives .
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At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting.
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Some lost their lives in panic while trying to scramble aboard crowded ships.
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Between 1641 and 1651 more than one in five adult males bore arms perhaps one in twenty lost their lives .
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All had been shed once upon a time when she had lost her life .
risk
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Kevin Hunt, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, said yesterday youngsters are risking their lives and damaging trees by climbing them.
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She then mates with the transvestite who never risked his life .
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Every time a lifeboatman puts to sea, he risks his life .
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Cieslakiewicz had risked his life for him.
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Men and women from the ambulances risked their lives to rescue tormented souls.
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He had risked their lives , but the gamble had paid off and that was the end of it.
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Sometimes they would take journalists to the front line; sometimes they would risk their lives to help reporters.
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Your grandfather risked his own life to save Michael.
save
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But they say their real reward is knowing they've helped to save lives .
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That was just one of hundreds of incidents where its fast, clean work saved a life .
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The M-forty through Oxfordshire is notoriously prone to fog ... campaigners say overhead lighting is urgently needed to save lives .
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It may be the smallest investment that's saved the most lives across the developing world.
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As long as the cancers are detected early enough, laser treatment can save lives .
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After a few seconds, the machine may repeat its order or advise another course of action that could save a life .
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Doctor Ryding's passport bears witness to the thousands of miles he's travelled helping to save lives for the red cross.
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Do not overfeed, and systematize your feeding to save the lives of your fish.
share
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I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him.
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They share the life of books.
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For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being?
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This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life .
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Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle.
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Even as I write this, the shared facts of our lives continue to thread their way through our flesh.
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Not positively and self-sufficiently alone, but alone because she had no one with whom to share her life .
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The women, both 33, have been living together and sharing their lives for the last six years.
spend
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They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others.
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I spent my life making such moments in men.
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Pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 spend a great deal of their life within the school walls.
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And moral objections to people spending their lives shooting scag.
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He had spent his life designing inoffensive wallpaper, he realised, and he was not really ashamed of that.
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Instead, they spent their lives working at the family store Olivia was bookkeeper for near fifty goddamn years.
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The courageous two-year-old has spent all his short life in hospital.
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She has spent her life trying to make me feel guilty.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a) lust for life
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Quinn's lust for life is contagious.
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In view of her lust for life, her appetite simply for living?
(as) large as life
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As large as life and death, both funny and sad - and not a little dangerous.
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He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk, and it was plain that he knew her identity.
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I looked up - he was standing nearby, large as life.
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Oh, Lee, you're as large as life.
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There were the words, as large as life and often twice as sane.
I'd stake my life on it
a dog's life
a life of crime
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At the age of twelve, he entered into a life of crime .
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I certainly never figured Tod/John for a life of crime .
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I paid Fagin to trap Oliver into a life of crime .
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Jock has chosen a life of crime within which to fashion a self.
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They hadn't bothered tuppence before when he was following a life of crime .
a life of ease
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Rachel has always lived a life of ease .
a matter of life and/or death
a new lease of life
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A re-style can provide locks with a new lease of life.
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Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience.
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Clearly retirement has given Jean-Luc Sadourny a new lease of life.
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For example, somebody may find that working from home injects their career with a new lease of life.
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Male speaker It's absolutely wonderful - to be given a new lease of life. you're given a second chance.
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Now they are aiming for a new lease of life and further development.
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The Chelsea goalkeeper has found a new lease of life at Grimsby since joining them on loan.
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The political controversy over the Habre affair has been given a new lease of life.
a sheltered life/childhood/upbringing etc
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I lead a sheltered life out in the branch.
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Listen honey, d' you think I lead a sheltered life?
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We led a sheltered life out there in the suburbs.
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What a sheltered life she leads, in her self-built lavender ghetto.
a slice of life
an attempt on sb's life
be made (for life)
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Accusations of ballot-box stuffing at the neighborhood-run election were made about the meeting which nominated the new slate.
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Both the subcommittee and Mr Gingrich agree that no public comment should be made about this matter while it is still pending.
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That base, Dobson contends, is made up of conservative Christians who are anti-abortion.
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The chief librarian is responsible for an operation that is made up of the Main Library and 26 neighborhood branches.
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The neck is made from maple, which was a surprise, because I was expecting mahogany.
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The temporary replacement car will be made available only when full details of the loss or damage are notified to General Accident.
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Various adjustments are made to allow for special circumstances affecting local costs of providing particular services.
beat/thrash etc sb to within an inch of their life
bereft of hope/meaning/life etc
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How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
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These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.
breathe life into sth
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After the marriage, though, she wants to breathe life into their dry, platonic relationship.
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Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.
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Now they each had a picture which they examined and re-examined, trying to breathe life into the two-dimensional image.
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Something unexplainable takes over and breathes life into the known life.
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The deal aims to breathe life into the stationer's e-business efforts.
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We harness fossil energy and breathe life into machines.
cost sb their job/life/marriage etc
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And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
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His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
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I believe that it would cost many people their jobs and would cause far more damage than good.
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It could cost them their lives.
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The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
daily life
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VCRs have become a part of daily life in North America.
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Going about my daily life, I certainly never told them aloud and never even alluded to them.
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Just smile politely and proceed with your daily life.
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Most older people cope with the ups and downs of their daily lives.
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She could well understand how women in particular wanted to get away to the West where daily life was so much more convenient.
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Such murders were becoming part of daily life in El Salvador.
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They insure up to the hilt, yet worries about money, health and security suffuse daily life.
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Will the daily lives of these people be improved through this project?
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With complete honesty these works convey the realities of daily life.
day-to-day work/business/life etc
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Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
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But since the arrival of Robins, he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman.
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Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company.
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In our day-to-day lives, including day-to-day scientific lives, we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses.
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It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
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Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
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The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
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While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.
depart this life
end your life/end it all
enter sb's life
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Brandy's friends noticed a big difference in her after Jerry entered her life.
expectation of life
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About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901, after which the pace accelerated sharply.
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But what of the expectation of life of some one who has reached the age of forty?
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Improvements in expectation of life are slight in the eighteenth century.
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Second, women have a longer expectation of life than men.
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She was given a very short expectation of life by the doctors.
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Still less is it intended to mirror the expectation of life of the deceased or his dependants.
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The plaintiff is aged 30 and has a normal expectation of life.
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When the normal expectation of life is very low, sickness and death are normal hazards.
follow a profession/trade/way of life etc
for dear life
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Sherman held onto the bar for dear life.
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It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.
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The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life.
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The playing throughout the evening was truly superb, every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life.
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They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life.
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This wasn't easy either, because she was spooked and was clinging for dear life to the poor kid's hair.
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With difficulty, he made his way towards her, Charlotte clinging to him for dear life.
give sb the kiss of life
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His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life.
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I tried to give her the kiss of life.
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The ship's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived.
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Why didn't you at least try to resuscitate her, give her the kiss of life?
good/better/healthy etc start (in life)
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A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed.
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But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.
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He had better start by accepting that if he does the right things, they will not be popular ones.
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It wasn't a very good start .
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Not a good start , but a start, nevertheless.
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The auditor may enjoy the gifts, but he had better start looking for a sympathy engram not yet suspected or tapped.
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The problem was the middle and end, when the team sacrificed rebounding for getting out to a good start .
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They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start , he believes.
have nine lives
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The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.
have/lead a charmed life
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But since its premier issue in January 1993, Wired has led a charmed life.
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By his own admission he has led a charmed life.
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It's been too easy for us; we've led charmed lives till now.
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No wonder that she and Charles felt that they led a charmed life, that the times were on their side.
high life/living
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As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
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But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
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But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
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He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
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He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
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His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
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It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
how the other half lives
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High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
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Ye never knew how the other half lives!
in later years/life
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As a result, the performance in later years could very easily be enhanced.
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But, though large, the book is not, like Welles in later life, overweight.
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Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years.
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For these serious psychiatric conditions the onset of new cases in later life appears to be very rare.
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Nor is there any relief from this pattern of underrepresentation in the statistics for the regular admissions program in later years.
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Secure attachments early on in life provide inner resources to manage stressful and threatening situations in later years.
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The direct impact of improving health in later life has been relatively recent.
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Your young daughter's bossy attitude in later life may be channelled into quite acceptable leadership qualities.
larger than life
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Graham was one of the larger-than-life legends of the rock era.
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Floyd Elgin Dominy, larger than life.
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He was an ebullient, larger than life denial of all that was Right: he chain-smoked and drank too much.
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He was for me larger than life.
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Nothing else in existence whatsoever, but there, all alone and larger than life, a huge carrot.
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Pitt, as always, is larger than life.
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She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true.
▪
Shrimpton was in the mid-forties, overweight, and slightly larger than life, a sociable type.
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Worrying about your problems, which seem larger than life at that time of night, is hard to resist.
late in life
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Carter and Reagan had come into politics relatively late in life.
▪
Greg got married late in life.
▪
She didn't have children until relatively late in life.
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Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life.
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Marriage, if considered, is arrived at later in life, and there is always divorce.
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Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.
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Not having children or having them late in life doubles the risk, as does heavy alcohol consumption.
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Pauline decided much later in life that she wanted a degree.
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Sir Monty Finniston entered the industrial arena relatively late in life.
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They gave him something he needed late in life, and he gave them something they needed early in theirs.
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Very late in life, bald with worry and eaten by a stomach ulcer, her father became a dentist.
lay down your life
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He considered it a privilege to lay down his life for his country.
▪
He remembered the words of Izz Huett: She would have laid down her life for you.
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I would lay down my life for it.
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They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance.
life is cheap
▪
There is a feeling in the housing projects that life is cheap .
live life to the full
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A church that only looks to itself will never be living life to the full.
▪
At the new house, he lived life to the full.
▪
It affects us directly - a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full.
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To live life to the full involves awareness of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.
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Tony was treated like an adult, and he got to live life to the full.
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Wants to live life to the full.
live out your life
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Egalitarian Rousseau lived out his life as the spoilt plaything of eccentric aristocrats.
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He began teaching philosophy at Harvard in 1882 and lived out his life as an eastern intellectual.
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John Morton lived out his life in Darvel, always respected by the people of the Irvine Valley.
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Our comfort is this: We will live out our lives enchanted by Claire, her spell never broken.
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She will find a way to live out her life without gangster Jackie.
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There, side by side, Amelia and Mary Ann would live out their lives.
lose your life
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Hundreds of people lost their lives when the ship overturned in a storm.
▪
Over 100 soldiers lost their lives.
▪
Supporters continue to visit the site where Colosio lost his life to an assassin's bullet.
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Almost losing his life in his effort at reformation, Andrew joined the Theatines.
▪
At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting.
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Between 1641 and 1651 more than one in five adult males bore arms perhaps one in twenty lost their lives.
▪
I don't come within an inch of losing my life every day.
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It was no simple task to complete; one workman, thrown into the raging rapids below almost lost his life.
▪
Many princes tried and failed, and so they lost their lives.
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Nearly 80 journalists, photographers, and associated staff have lost their lives here since May 1993, killed by the fundamentalists.
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We mourn the tens of millions of people who lost their lives.
make sb's life a misery
▪
Circuit judge John Lee, 65, told a court that all men suffer because women enjoy making their lives a misery .
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In Dinny's code, if you beat some one in a fight you made their life misery for as long as possible.
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It makes my life a misery .
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My supervisor has made my life a misery .
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She really was making his life a misery .
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The roadworks are making their lives a misery .
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Why did they have to make his life a misery ?
new life/day/era
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A new life began for the and for many.
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After an experience like that, each new day you are granted has a special meaning.
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Her new life in London had become tainted with the deaths of adoring males.
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Of course it did herald a new era ... in the second division.
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The new era of riots overlapped the nonviolent phase of the black liberation struggle.
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The nation was at a critical turning point, self-consciously entering a new era.
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This is our new life, beginning today.
public life
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Monnerville retired from public life in 1983.
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The government is not allowed to aid religion in U.S. public life.
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After all, both men came into public life with private histories.
▪
Dali's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision.
▪
In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life.
▪
In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.
▪
It was during this period that her taste for politics and public life were first awakened, her son says.
▪
Perfect honesty in public life is as rare as anti-matter.
▪
Politics no longer served as the centerpiece of citizens' public lives.
▪
The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life.
quality of life
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Quality of life could be improved for many of the terminally ill patients.
▪
The city's low population and openness contribute to the high quality of life in Phoenix.
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A: First, all of the socioeconomic issues; because that deals with quality of life.
▪
Communication disorders are a source of considerable frustration and undoubtedly interfere with the quality of life.
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I like a good quality of life, whatever name you want to give to that.
▪
Old buildings and streets, well cared for and adapted to today's needs, vastly enhance the quality of life.
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One must look at the quality of life that diabetics and their carers have.
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The crucial question for Henzler is which of these capitalist systems will give its people the best quality of life.
▪
The factors or aspects of life which determine quality of life and risk will vary between individuals.
▪
The simple answer, of course, is safety and quality of life.
run sb's life
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Don't try to run my life!
sb can't do sth to save his/her life
sb has their own life to lead
sb's life flashes before their eyes
sb's world/life falls apart
▪
When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
share your life with sb
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For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being?
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Here I am, knocking 40 any year now and sharing my life with a woman who is seven years my junior.
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How much trouble are we prepared to go to for the privilege of sharing our lives with feline companions?
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I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him.
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I thought that at last I'd found some one I could share my life with.
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I wasn't ready to share my life with anyone.
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In the end it wasn't just for me but for those I wanted to share my life with.
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We shared our faith with them and they shared their lives with us.
sign of life
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A flock was once thought to be a decisive sign of life, some noble formation only life could achieve.
▪
After the bout in which I intimated signs of life, I came through the ropes, smiling.
▪
Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy.
▪
Here are inchoate signs of life, but not as we know it, Jim.
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I looked around for the slightest sign of life.
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It was Hilda Machin, and there was no sign of life.
▪
There are signs of life above the snow, too.
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There was no sign of life.
that's life/men/politics etc (for you)
that's the story of my life
the (very) stuff of dreams/life/politics
▪
But such philosophical dissent, at this point, is the stuff of dreams in a dreamworld.
▪
How does a political system handle the incredibly difficult and complicated value allocations that are the stuff of politics?
▪
Our ideas and hopes for the future are the stuff of life.
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This was the stuff of life.
▪
Within this realm the stuff of dreams and nightmares can coalesce from the very air.
the Jaws of Life
the facts of life
the good life
▪
Bob continued to talk about the good life he wanted for him and Alice.
▪
But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole.
▪
Can we define the good life?
▪
Meg thought of Eva Kovacks in the nursing home in Essex and knew who had the best life.
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One of the good guys heading for the good life.
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Seeking the good life, the Stollers moved to Los Angeles in 1949.
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Some are ideological, like the promise of the good life that can be gained by staying within the law.
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This was part of the good life, and they were not to be denied it.
the light of sb's life
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We have a four-year-old son who is the light of my life.
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His wife, while sound in mind, had taken a pillow and had deliberately snuffed out the light of his life.
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Ixora was his only child, the light of his life.
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LoEshe was the light of his life.
the sanctity of life/marriage etc
▪
The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma.
▪
Their outlook on the sanctity of marriage is usually stricter.
▪
This man who believed in the sanctity of life, its life, not hers.
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What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.
the secrets of life/nature/the universe etc
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Nobody expects you to reveal the secrets of the universe, only produce a well-written story.
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We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
the simple life
▪
Coming from a group whose aim is the simpler life, such an entry into the market place raises some intriguing questions.
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He believed in the simple life and slept on a mattress on the floor.
the staff of life
▪
Bread is the staff of life.
▪
Discipline was the staff of life.
▪
They form the staff of the staff of life; other ingredients are embellishments, points of interest, but not essential.
the wheel of fortune/life/time etc
▪
And, as the wheel of fortune continues on its inexorable cycle, values are likely to start going up again soon.
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Then the wheel of fortune turned.
time of life
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I can't start repenting at my time of life.
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I love Ma, but she must expect to be unhappy because she's reached that time of life.
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I think at your time of life you should.
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It really was a wonderful place for me, and a wonderful time of life.
▪
It was a time of life when I did not run out of words.
▪
Midlife is a time of physical change, as are other times of life.
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Not at my time of life.
true to life/true-to-life
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It's a great story, but not always true to life.
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The film gives us a true to life picture of 1920s Chicago.
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Daylight reveals pure new wool in its true to life colours.
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It is relatively true to life.
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Male speaker It's so true to life, just like it was, I think it's tremendous.
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Many of her thoughts pass into oblivion, while the occasional thought comes true to life.
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Plastic and unbelievable though the characters may be, yet realistic and true to life are the human temptations and struggles involved.
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Sphinx, again, is largely true to life.
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That anecdote, told in Beatrice Hastings' New Age column, seems true to life.
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This story is true to life.
variety is the spice of life
waking hours/life/day etc
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Every second of his waking hours, he was watched.
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He inhales desert lore and data all his waking hours.
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Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it.
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Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
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She still wanted to look as she did in waking life, but there were improvements she could make.
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Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.
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The documentation that he signed said, observe this resident one on one during waking hours.
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We were young and our waking hours were given to games.
wish your life away
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Such pessimists are wishing their life away.
working life
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Both procedures reflect current government policy concerns with increasing vocationalism and preparation for working life at the pre-16 stage.
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But all teachers are concerned about their own level of stress, and how to lead a satisfying working life.
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Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing.
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Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
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The noise, the abuse, the grimness are everyday parts of their working life.
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They could anticipate earning a decent, middle-class wage there for most of their working lives.
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What do I want out of my working life?
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Your working life can go back as far as April 1936, but not further.
you (can) bet your life/your bottom dollar
you saved my life
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Thanks for the ride - you really saved my life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Life can be hard sometimes.
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Life in L.A. is exciting.
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A Life of Christopher Columbus
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a baby's first moments of life
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An 18-year-old San Jose man clung to life late Wednesday after being shot in the head during a robbery.
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At least Aunt Edith had a happy life .
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Boswell's Life of Sanuel Johnson was published in 1791.
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By our actions today, we can improve the quality of life for future generations.
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Cindy still doesn't know much about life .
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Dad spent his life building up this business.
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Debbie has a really busy life , doesn't she?
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Do you believe in life after death?
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Do you think there is life on other planets?
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Having a baby completely changes your life .
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He knew very little about his mother's early life in Africa.
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He left school at 15, quickly turning to a life of crime.
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How would you like to spend your life ? What kind of work would you like to do?
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I'm hoping to win the lottery and live a life of luxury!
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Immigrating to the UK was their only chance for a better life .
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Lack of calcium can lead to bone disease in later life .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All your life every man has wanted to be a cowboy.
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But she knew Petey was too old for dishonest leaps between the movies and real life .
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Every opportunity to maximise the differences between school and college life was seized.
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I can not say that Dickie ever talked to me about his most personal life .
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Mars and Venus this weekend means your love life will start to sparkle.
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This has had a huge effect on children's lives.
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We are having a wonderful life , without you.