Example sentences of "[prep] which life " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 2 | ‘ Could it be that any living creature has its inception with the creation of a discontinuity in space ( a vortex ) through which life energy flows , sweeping biological molecules , matter , and perhaps even entire embryos along with it in predictable , spiral trajectories ? |
| 3 | Once again the lower animals were treated as immature versions of the human race , with the growth of the human embryo recapitulating all the stages through which life had passed in order to reach the highest level of development . |
| 4 | Evolution became a ladder rather than a tree , a linear sequence of stages through which life had advanced towards the human form . |
| 5 | This amounted to 13.3bn in 1987 of which life or long-term insurance companies contributed 11.3bn . |
| 6 | The lightfootedness with which life comes and goes . |
| 7 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |
| 8 | As Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson considerably modified the tax framework in which life assurance and pensions schemes operated , removing for instance the tax relief on life insurance premiums . |
| 9 | He is most famous for his political philosophy , which is embodied in his Elements of Law , completed by 1640 though not published until 1650 ; in his De Cive ( ‘ On the Citizen ’ ) of 1642 ; and , in particular , in his Leviathan ( 1651 ) , a classic and perenially studied account of man 's move from a primitive state of nature , in which life is ‘ solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short ’ , into an organized society , with absolute power vested in the hands of a supreme authority . |
| 10 | More field trips were demanded ; in the new climate in which life was at last prepared to be amenable to Richard 's desires , it seemed natural that Murray should supervise these expeditions . |
| 11 | The tension in the story is between their blood relationship and the different directions in which life has taken them . |
| 12 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 13 | A central theme of the exhibition is nature as a theatre in which life 's dramas unfold . |
| 14 | The Great Mother is a symbol of the way in which life is brought into being in the world , from the first hidden appearance of a spark of life in the covered darkness to the birth of a fully formed being . |
| 15 | The womb represents the very first place in which life takes form . |
| 16 | Placements in parishes are complemented by one or two three-week residential community placements in which life in a non-church institution , like a hospital , is observed . |
| 17 | Evolution was not an absolutely continuous process because the crucial episodes in which life had advanced to an entirely new level of development could not be represented as extensions of the more predictable kind of evolution taking place within established groups . |
| 18 | By the 1870s general questions of marine biology had become prominent , partly in an evolutionary context in which life had first begun in the sea . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if the initial state of the universe had to be chosen extremely carefully to lead to something like what we see around us , the universe would be unlikely to contain any region in which life would appear . |
| 20 | Water is the habitat in which many organisms live and is the habitat in which life originated and evolved . |
| 21 | Though it looks painfully obvious described so baldly , this scheme is wonderfully successful in dramatising the way in which life gradually closes in on Peter , driving him inexorably to madness and suicide . |
| 22 | Can you say , can you see ways in which life |
| 23 | Can you see ways in which life for the family has become better and become worse . |
| 24 | ‘ Root ’ here links the figure in the sheets to a tree from which life has drained , yet soon it will come alive with galvanic motion . |
| 25 | It read : ‘ Over thousands of years , almost all the animals on this planet have engaged in flirting and courtship rights ; it is the stuff from which Life itself evolves . |
| 26 | The long drawing-room at sunset , illustrated by Phiz ( Fig. 13 ) , is a place from which life has suddenly departed . |
| 27 | I had discovered that without which life must be worse than death . |
| 28 | Carbon dioxide is certainly a greenhouse gas , but 99 per cent of the greenhouse effect ( without which life on Earth would not be possible ) is due to water vapour . |
| 29 | The extent to which life is difficult in old age is by no means all determined by nature . |
| 30 | Re-evaluate the extent to which life expectancy can be predicted by number of people per doctor when GNP has been controlled . |