Example sentences of "which life [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The extent to which life is difficult in old age is by no means all determined by nature . |
| 3 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only in rejecting the terms on which life is offered to him can a man discover his real dignity , his real self . ’ |
| 6 | Fellow tripper Dave Caley , who also works at Springfields , suggested that to mark her birthday — the one which life is supposed to start at — she should do something special . |
| 7 | Certainly he seems to define active life in terms of outward works and to see it as inferior to the inward experience of contemplation : Some people are doubtful as to which life is the more meritorious and excellent , the contemplative or the active . |