Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will revitalise Section 4 of the 1968 Theft Act , i.e. the crime of gaining property and pecuniary advantage by deception , and apply it to the activities of Life Assurance salesmen . |
| 2 | This is another story , but it underlines the contention that ‘ desire ’ could be the ultimate motivation of all the activities of life . |
| 3 | Happiness only comes about when we live within the disciplines of life , given to us by God . |
| 4 | The impact of religious belief on the attitudes to life of older people is particularly strong . |
| 5 | Claudia had concluded that the rituals of life have a social significance : they are what makes us human . |
| 6 | But if people move on , it 's understandable , in the event that everyone moves on , and I 'm left dangling in the recording studio — then it would seem to confirm everything I 've ever thought about the cruelties of life . ’ |
| 7 | This comes out very strongly in the discussions of life in their school . |
| 8 | The way in which the use of knowledge affected the patterns of life and existence of the people determined whether or not it became adopted . |
| 9 | For Lanfranc , all the signs of life which he saw around him when he arrived at Canterbury were in one way or another manifestations of deviation from the norms of contemporary learning and religious observance , and his main aim in all his activities , whether at Bec or at Canterbury , was to strengthen the central normality of any church for which he was responsible . |
| 10 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 11 | Once they reach this state the fry will move away from the nest and face the dangers of life on their own without their father 's protection . |
| 12 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 13 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 14 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 15 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 16 | In the scales of life Nona was right up , and the Flemings down , down , down . |
| 17 | The atmosphere which is evoked in the reading of the poem is one of hopelessness , of resignation , of dark depression and sadness alleviated only by the concluding couplet through which we understand that although oncoming death seems to ‘ take away ’ everything from him , his beloved still remains and can see the glimmers of life through desolation . |
| 18 | pursues its business with the personnel of life . |
| 19 | Deterministic laws of atomic arrangements in the triumphant years of classical physics seemed to lie behind the phenomena of life . |
| 20 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 21 | It is his interest in the minutiae of life and his shrewd and perceptive descriptions of people , places , and events that have left the most indelible impression on his admirers . |
| 22 | ‘ Or he was , before he took a wrong turning on one of the roads of life that we walked … . ’ |
| 23 | The flows of life energy in the body along the meridians are thus adjusted and balanced at certain very carefully chosen spots . |
| 24 | A group of young disabled mountaineers are on their way to Mount Everest to show … to prove they can climb … they can reach the peaks of life … |
| 25 | The damage to your dog 's pancreas is permanent , so it is likely that you will have to continue with the capsules for life , but with the right sort of diet , you may well be able to reduce the number he needs . |
| 26 | Paul Kent and Wayne Forester … perform a mime and comedy show … bringing the puppets and the cliches to life … |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I wanted to know the secrets of life , and , most of all , I wanted to know how to make living things . |
| 29 | I wanted to use electricity to help people , and I wanted to discover the secrets of life . |
| 30 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |