Example sentences of "of the [noun] of life " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , this month 's issue of Psychology Today contains the result of a study of the pace of life in 36 American cities . |
| 2 | The fruits of the tree of life are portrayed through acid-etching of the flasked , or surface-coloured , glass . |
| 3 | He carried the skin and mask of the Nemean lion , the victim of his first Parerga , and his mighty club , a living olive tree torn from the ground , a symbol of the Tree of Life . |
| 4 | The culmination of the whole initiative will the construction of the Tree of Life exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in June at the centre of the Earth Summit and in view of the world 's press . |
| 5 | People through the ages made images of the Tree of Life , as with the stone altar in Neolithic Malta with trees carved on all four sides . |
| 6 | This is a result of the increased knowledge of the biochemistry of life and of the way in which individual characteristics are transmitted from one generation to another . |
| 7 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 8 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 9 | These are the central feature of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico , but then again skulls and skeletons are commonly used as emblems of the transience of life in seventeenth-century Spanish painting . |
| 10 | In the seventeenth century itself the well-worn books , the half-burnt candle , were emblems of the transience of life ; while in the paintings of van Eyck similar motifs — candlestick , basin , perfect fruit , and carafe of clear glass — are used to indicate unfallen nature . |
| 11 | A " biosociety " says Professor A. Behrens , a prominent member of the project , " is one that should be fully aware of the problems of life in all its forms and of a balanced " input/output " in energy and materials … [ and ] is using biotechnology to an optimal extent in order to guarantee a proper balance between human needs ( partially represented by industrial needs ) , natural resources , and the environment " ( Oberursal , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ All of us who fear God and seek salvation through His Son must be drawn to previous explanations of the genesis of life and the meaning of death . ’ |
| 13 | So in Leviticus 17:11 , just as " to make atonement " means " to pay the atonement/ransom price " , so " by reason of the life " means " by reason of the payment of life " . |
| 14 | To Ashley the ceremony seemed a simple and yet moving reminder of the basics of life . |
| 15 | Anyone who forgets that this is how men and women thought of the goods of life in those days will never be competent to judge the small but genuine improvement which the great capitalist expansion brought to a substantial part of the working classes in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | Because of the integral parts played by Mind and consciousness , it seems that any purely mechanistic description of the origins of life and the physical universe , is doomed to failure , for it ignores the manner by which the physical creation and physical bodies come into being as expressions of Mind and consciousness . |
| 17 | Modigliani read Ehrenburg sonnets by an Italian Jewish poet of the fourteenth century , Emmanuele Romano , ‘ mocking , bitter poems that were nevertheless full of the love of life ’ , Then he told Ehrenburg how in bygone days the Romans had celebrated the carnival by forcing the Jewish community to elect a Jewish runner who had to run naked three times round the city , whilst the elegant crowd of bishops , ambassadors and ladies looked on . |
| 18 | Writers such as Vincent Starrett and Carl Van Vechten , extolling the lyrical power of his prose , proclaimed him a mystagogue of the secrets of life and art in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne . |
| 19 | However the image of the Wood of Life breaks through to hobbit-consciousness with increasing clarity . |
| 20 | It was melancholy to see in the civil prisons of the metropolis , remarked Grant , men whose birth , education , manners and appearance would have fitted them for occupying the highest positions in society and consequently of proving benefactors to their species , spending no inconsiderable portion of the prime of life amid scenes of deepest degradation . |
| 21 | On December the eighth , nineteen thirty-six , time of the ab abdication , the Times published a singularly apt quotation from A Hopeless , Throneless King , Loathsome to Men Below To God 's Above a Sad Example of the Slights of Life . |
| 22 | Such vast periods of time baffle the imagination , but we can form some idea of the relative duration of the major phases of the history of life if we compare the entire span , from these first beginnings until today , with one year . |
| 23 | Biogeography was the principal source of Darwin 's theory of evolution , but to most of his contemporaries it seemed obvious that the starting point for any investigation of the history of life on earth must be the fossil record . |
| 24 | The German paleontologist H. G. Bronn ( 1800–62 ) also began to draw diagrams of the history of life representing the overall process as a branching tree . |
| 25 | But Forbes was unable to shake off the belief that new species were produced by the exertion of a supernatural agent — he proposed a strange theory of ‘ polarity ’ in which the creative power was supposed to have been exerted most strongly at the beginning and at the end of the history of life on earth . |
| 26 | Chemical dependency ( drug addiction or alcoholism ) is a disease of the human spirit , of the sense of life , of hope , trust , love , faith and all the spiritual values . |
| 27 | This restoration of the sense of life may well be an effect frequently produced by techniques of making strange , but Shklovsky makes it clear that in the end the object itself is not important , but merely a pretext for art . |
| 28 | Or are we simply being made aware of the interrelatedness of life and the fact that when one form of life suffers other forms of life suffer in some degree ? |
| 29 | Though there were huge stones involved , they knitted into a whole which spoke of the possibility of life ; intimate , ordinary life . |
| 30 | John 's father , Sir William Herschel , was the discoverer of the planet Uranus in 1781 , and he had been firmly convinced of the possibility of life on other worlds . |