Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] of life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … syndrome of religious rites symbolizing the struggle to preserve the egg of life through the rigours of impending winter . |
| 2 | Thus there is a tendency , if we once accept a sharp distinction between good as means and good as end , to see the point of life in those leisure activities , or at least in activities which stand apart from the main work of the world , such as high culture and very private personal relations . |
| 3 | Still less is it intended to mirror the expectation of life of the deceased or his dependants . |
| 4 | Attempts by the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein to destroy the way of life of the Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs will also obliterate the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East , according to western observers . |
| 5 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 6 | Issued about nine times a year to celebrate the richness of life in Britain , they are collected by enthusiasts from every corner of the globe . |
| 7 | The centre 's goal has been to enhance the quality of life of people who have cancer , and to possibly allay progression of the disease ; to give people some feeling of control over their lives and their healthcare , and to help them cope better with having cancer . |
| 8 | First , there are services to enhance the quality of life of children living at home with their families . |
| 9 | Our aim is to enhance the quality of life for the British people . |
| 10 | Final outcomes Every project sets out to enhance the quality of life for the people that they were going to provide services for . |
| 11 | What these things can do is to enhance the quality of life by helping us to transmute ‘ stress ’ into positive challenges , thus preventing the onset of apathy or even depression . |
| 12 | This need not worry us until we come to discuss the origin of life in the last chapter : in existing organisms , proteins never arise except from a decoding process , and decoding never happens without proteins . |
| 13 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 14 | Costumes , scene changes , music and lighting all blend together to give the feel of life in the early twentieth century . |
| 15 | Doctors and nurses among the mourners rushed to give the kiss of life to the driver , funeral director Leslie Adams . |
| 16 | Empathizing as far as possible with his hosts , the anthropological research worker seeks to seize the essence of life around him and to incarnate its animating spirit . |
| 17 | It asks why the sun bothered to start the cycle of life at all if life was just going to end at the middle like the soldiers life . |
| 18 | There is a real danger that the sheer scope of the Darwin industry will encourage us to forget that other people were thinking about organic origins at the time , but were exploring very different ways of trying to understand the development of life on earth . |
| 19 | As we have seen , ethnographic studies aim to describe the way of life of a society or group of people . |
| 20 | But the charity does aim to offer the chance of life to millions who 'll otherwise become mere statistics of a human tragedy . |
| 21 | For all their efforts to uncover trends that would serve to unify the history of life on earth , the vast majority were unwilling to explain the trends as the result of natural processes that could be seen operating in the world today . |
| 22 | Our association of dominant ideology with bureaucracy has tempted us to reserve our notions of way of life for our villagers , thereby reducing bureaucrats and other representatives of the wider world beyond the boundaries of community to automatons , ciphers in depersonalised processes which are unintentionally portrayed as existing merely to threaten the way of life of local communities . |
| 23 | She wanted something to keep secret inside her ; something to balance the loneliness of life without him if one night he should n't come back . |
| 24 | Put that way , who would be high on the list of people women would n't like to get the kiss of life from ? |
| 25 | Through the Earthwatch expedition I hope to benefit greatly by assisting to improve the quality of life on earth and especially the life of the poverty-stricken people of my continent , whose lot in life is always disease , environmental degradation and poor living standards . |
| 26 | Perhaps its greatest advantage is its ability to point social workers to the simple , practical steps they can take to improve the quality of life for children whose other difficulties may prove impossible to remedy . |
| 27 | Since that time , BRAC has grown into a country-wide development organisation , remaining independent of the government , and striving to improve the quality of life for the people of Bangladesh . |
| 28 | However , other services geared to improve the quality of life for the elderly or those newly discharged from hospital were unlikely to be funded . |
| 29 | While the new Chief Constable says he does n't plan to make any major changes in the force , he 's made a commitment to improve the quality of life for people in Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | He repeated promises that the council was doing all it could to improve the quality of life for residents in the area . |