Example sentences of "the life [conj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigation into the lives and times of writers in the 1920s in Peking , China through their reminiscences and their firends ' , both written and oral . |
| 2 | By using such evidence the historian can come to terms with some of the everyday reality of the war , and how it touched the lives and outlook of men and women , famous and not so famous , rich and poor , whose experiences are described in the proceedings of civil and criminal cases which have come down to us in some number . |
| 3 | La Fille Mal Gardée of 1789 was the first ballet to display the lives and loves of peasants and farmers . |
| 4 | Where desertification poses its greatest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people is in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa . |
| 5 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 6 | If there are some brute facts , perhaps social , but founded in biological difference , which separate the lives and experience of women from those of men , may these not continue ineluctably to affect the moral ideals they may hold ? |
| 7 | Ken had a ringside seat for one of the most explosive and widely publicized bouts of homosexual love and hate in recorded British history — the lives and deaths of playwright Joe Orton and his lover , Kenneth Halliwell . |
| 8 | At a higher social level the lives and fortunes of individuals continued to be bound up with the continental possessions . |
| 9 | But there is a danger that the current reforms will leave untouched fundamental assumptions about the lives and needs of service users . |
| 10 | When tested in the experience of humanity it can be found to be a better explanation of the lives and purposes of men and women than its rivals on the laissez-faire Right or the Marxist Left . |
| 11 | However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 . |
| 12 | [ Ralph Nevill , The Life and Letters of Dorothy Nevill , 1919 ; Guy Nevill , Exotic Groves : a Portrait of Lady Dorothy Nevill , 1984 ; E. Gosse , ‘ Lady Dorothy Nevill ’ , Fortnightly Review , vol. ci , 1914 , pp. 277–87 ; W. R. Trotter , ‘ The Glasshouses at Dangstein and their Contents ’ , Garden History , vol. xvi , 1988 , pp. 71–89 . ] |
| 13 | Nothing in Emma 's actions suggested alarm at the deterioration of her resources , says her biographer Hugh Tours ( The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton , 1963 ) . |
| 14 | Warning — the reference to the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin are to some two-volume American edition , not to the original English one ( which is surely accessible enough ? ) . |
| 15 | [ Anthony Allfrey , Man of Arms : the Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff , 1989 ; Bank of England ledgers ; William Shaw papers , Columbia University ; Lloyd George papers , House of Lords Record Office ; Vickers archives , Cambridge University Library ; private information . ] |
| 16 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 17 | [ George Paston ( Emily Morse Symonds ) , ‘ A Spinster 's Recollections ’ in Side-Lights on the Georgian Period , 1902 ; Percy A. Scholes , The Life and Activities of Sir John Hawkins , 1953 ; J. Paul de Castro , ‘ Laetitia Hawkins and Boswell ’ , Notes and Queries , 18 December 1943 ; Bertram H. Davis , A Proof of Eminence : the Life of Sir John Hawkins , 1973 . ] |
| 18 | We first saw actress Julie T Wallace in The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil . |
| 19 | Five years on from The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , Julie is still recognised as Ruth , the dowdy , downtrodden housewife who adopted a wide range of disguises and underwent major plastic surgery to wreak revenge on her unfaithful husband , played by Dennis Waterman . |
| 20 | When Julie took on the role as Ruth in The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil , it could have destroyed her confidence in her femininity for ever . |
| 21 | So writing about photographer David Bailey in ‘ the Life and Loves of David Bailey ’ , page 56 , was relatively straightforward . |
| 22 | Henreid also made occasional stage appearances , most memorably in The Jersey Lily ( Gate Theatre , 1940 ) , a dramatic reconstruction of the life and loves of Lily Langtry . |
| 23 | It is believed to span six manuscripts , being concentrated in two : the St Albans Psalter at Hildesheim Cathedral , and the Life and Miracles of St Edmund in the Pierpont Morgan Library , New York . |
| 24 | The life and work of Nicholas Kaldor |
| 25 | Only a resolutely historical critical approach such as this can begin to do justice to the life and work of Paul Nizan , inextricably enmeshed as it is in the illusions , deceits , hopes , aspirations , successes and failures of its time . |
| 26 | In recognition of the Baptist Missionary Society 's bi-centenary celebrations , this month 's article is the first of two on the life and work of Dr William Carey whose vision inspired the creation of the BMS and other missionary societies . |
| 27 | ( More information on the life and work of Hinrich Medau can be found in Medau Rhythmic Movement by Molly Braithwaite , price £1.50 — ask your teacher for a copy . ) |
| 28 | This phrase comes from Carl Nordenfalk 's book , The Life and Work of Van Gogh , first published in 1943 ( in English in 1953 ) . |
| 29 | During the second week , Pisces will put on Dr Elsie which is a tribute to the life and work of Edinburgh medical pioneer , Dr Elsie Inglis . |
| 30 | [ Alexander Fleck , ‘ The Life and Work of Hamilton Young Castner ’ , Chemistry and Industry , 23 August 1947 , pp. 515–21 ; T. I. Williams , Fifty Years of Progress , the Castner–Kellner Alkali Company 1895–1945 , 1947 , ( portrait ) . ] |