Being outside of life vs Being outside the life

Both phrases are not commonly used in English. The correct way to express this idea would be "being outside of life." It is more natural and idiomatic to use the preposition "of" in this context.

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Being outside of life

This phrase is correct and more commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a state of being disconnected or excluded from the experiences and activities of life.

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Bob-O, is it possible that you're occasionally a decent human being in your life outside of this place?
Being outside of a spacecraft on a spacewalk... is the most dangerous thing an astronaut in orbit can do.
When you were speaking about being outside of your body and seeing yourself being operated on,
Children being outside of the home is good for their upbringing
An ALC member of his stature being outside of Colombia is something to note, so I'd like to speak with a comrade of his we have in custody, Eduardo Vargas.
He has no respect for your time, much less any sort of life that you may have outside of this place.
We began to learn of life outside of the city, and that's in books and paintings and in music.
Would you describe yourself as having any kind of life outside of work?
The hand movement, with which she returns the glass, has an exhaustion and a perfection that are outside of life.
The thing Grandpa wants you to know about the circle of life is that he happens to be standing outside of it.
I think that it's narrow-minded to discount the possibility of life outside of this solar system, yes... sir.
He became obsessed with being outside.
I get uncomfortable sometimes being outside.
Pretorius is a comic figure because of the way he stands outside of life, of the world, of Henry, of his own existence, and comments on it, if only in the irony of his perspective.
It's in danger just being outside your door.
It really made being outside much more tolerable.
After 8 years being outside, your father's finally home.
Being outside, hunting, fishing, surrounded by fantastic natural beauty.
He copped to being outside the house, but claimed he never went in.
Him being outside isn't enough.

Alternatives:

being excluded from life
being disconnected from life
being apart from life
being outside life's realm
being beyond the scope of life

Being outside the life

This phrase is not a common or correct way to express the idea of being disconnected from life.

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Bob-O, is it possible that you're occasionally a decent human being in your life outside of this place?
He copped to being outside the house, but claimed he never went in.
Look, it's hard for me, too, being outside the CIA.
Being outside the fiscal territory, the Canary Islands may impose restrictions on the import and export of goods by travellers coming from the Union which are at variance with those otherwise applied within the Community.
The group did not look at the actual health effect on soldiers who had been on mission in that region, this being outside the Community remit and to be handled in other fora such as Nato.
There is consequently no reason to express the reasonable profit margin on a set of data including sales which have to be disregarded for being outside the ordinary course of trade.
I see that quite simply as being outside the scope of what one would normally expect this initiative to cover and fully agree with Mr De Rossa, Mr Corrie and others who have addressed this misunderstanding.
The consequence will be series production of living beings outside the laws of nature, and instead of animals being bred by natural reproduction they will be produced non-sexually, like plant cuttings.
Being outside the euro area does not protect countries which do not use the common currency from the budget crisis inside the euro area.
The former President of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe and former President of Germany Roman Herzog asked recently whether Germany was still a parliamentary democracy, considering how many regulations have come into being outside the Bundestag.
The Commission verified that the sampled exporting producers were not eligible or did not make use of these programmes (mainly due to the fact that they were privately owned, or their being outside the area of application of the programme, or their relatively limited size).
He became obsessed with being outside.
I get uncomfortable sometimes being outside.
I want to apologize for being such a moron outside that bar six years ago and outside the Jetty last week where I made the worst decision of my life.
It's in danger just being outside your door.
It really made being outside much more tolerable.
After 8 years being outside, your father's finally home.
Being outside, hunting, fishing, surrounded by fantastic natural beauty.
Him being outside isn't enough.
Some don't like being outside in our glorious British weather.

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Being outside of life vs Being outside the life