Example sentences of "which [pos pn] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along one of those paths was the figure of Laura Channing , unable to move from the indeterminate point in time at which her life had first crossed that of Mahoney . |
| 2 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 3 | But for the life of her she could not behave as she ought when she stood among the rubble to which her life had been reduced . |
| 4 | Nothing would , in our belief , conduce more to the unity and harmony of the nation than a public policy directed to the provision of equal intellectual opportunities for all , and service to this end would be doubly effective if it came voluntarily as from those who have already received their inheritance , and desire to share with the rest of their countrymen that in which their life and freedom most truly consist . |
| 5 | The foundations upon which his life were built were intact . |
| 6 | This was the shape which his life had taken . |
| 7 | The company of women was by no means disagreeable — he had , after all , been brought up in a similar household — and the Mirrlees family provided him with the kind of comfort and security which his life otherwise lacked . |
| 8 | It is unfair to the citizen , who is entitled in a democratic society to have the rules by which his life is to be regulated properly debated and scrutinized by his elected representatives . |
| 9 | The creative work to which his life will be devoted is the expression of a sensibility which makes it increasingly distasteful , and eventually impossible , to keep any one area of experience permanently apart from any other . |
| 10 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 11 | Write down seven words which sum up honestly how your life feels at the moment , the qualities which your life expresses . |
| 12 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |