Example sentences of "of life [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants to know whether she was judged on the piece of sculpture itself ; and if so is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art ? or was she judged on her talent ; if so , is it right that she should be judged on a part of life over which she has no control ? |
| 2 | This is the time of life at which friends and acquaintances begin to die ; women have been through the menopause and men can no longer deny that their virility is diminishing . |
| 3 | It means that this type of analysis lights upon a particular aspect of social life and social change ( and an aspect of life with which Chicagoans were immediately concerned in the 1920s ) without attending to what Castells or a structuralist Marxist would see as the principal underlying processes affecting people 's lives , especially economic processes and those related to the social relations of production . |
| 4 | Yet it was the least characteristic and least congenial part of Anselm 's work , the area of life on which he had least to say . |
| 5 | This , realized Dyson with a sense of homecoming , was where he belonged ; this was the way of life for which his character and education had fitted him . |
| 6 | But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement . |
| 7 | He did not abandon the results of these strenuous efforts under the stress of emotion : through all the superficial symptoms of strong feeling , he was still seeking to follow the principle of life to which he was committed by his monastic vows . |
| 8 | This is the ultimate way of life to which sharedealers aspire . |
| 9 | A history of failure in an area of life to which the person is highly committed not only makes him particularly vulnerable to depression following a further experience of failure , but can also raise the probability of further failures . |
| 10 | The Wagner Report set the goal that residential care should offer a positive experience : ‘ actively aimed at providing every resident with the highest quality of life of which they are capable and indeed a better life than would be open to them in any other environment ’ ( ibid. , p. 8 ) . |
| 11 | You can revolt against it by a breakdown in health or morale , going what the Americans call stir-crazy' ; or you can accept it calmly , as just a temporary ‘ pause ’ in your normal way of life from which you intend to extract some good for yourself and others , keeping active , keeping your eyes on the world beyond the bars , and planning and preparing yourself for your ultimate return to it . |
| 12 | Utterances about literature make sense , and are generally understood , within the form of life in which they are habitually made . |
| 13 | We have all had experiences of life in which the suffering of others has led us to ask questions of God and about God . |
| 14 | We are saving a way of life in which the features are kindliness , freedom and above all , wisdom . |
| 15 | Whether they remain in Edinburgh or betake themselves to other lands and whatever be the walk of life in which they were bred I believe the students of this seminary will be found everywhere and at all times promoting civilisation in the world . ’ |
| 16 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 17 | She was courteous and obliging to all , chearful , good-natured , and contented in the Station of Life in which Providence had placed her . |
| 18 | Residence at the Tuileries imposed on the Imperial family a pattern of life in which rare moments of private relaxation alternated with the exhausting obligations of public ceremonial . |
| 19 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 20 | The hill towns of central Italy witness very obviously to two historical facts : to a continuity of life far surpassing the English towns we have compared with them , and to a love of independence , of a way of life in which turbulence and freedom and constant war were endemic factors . |
| 21 | Pick an area of life in which you wish to move forward — perhaps health , work , relationships , money or spirituality — and scribble down whatever comes to mind about your self-image in that area ( e.g. ‘ Me and health ’ ; ‘ Me and work ’ ) . |
| 22 | Are there any areas of life in which you consistently deny responsibility ? |
| 23 | Since in the last decades of the twentieth century all valuations are in question , let us start by imagining a manner of life in which I do without them altogether . |
| 24 | It represents a new way of life in which the behaviour and requirements of the collective body are present at every moment . ’ |
| 25 | There may be ( in fact , there are ) many areas of life in which the position of black Americans and other minorities needs to be improved . |
| 26 | This is one area of life in which women have a definite advantage ! |
| 27 | To fail in marriage nowadays is to go bankrupt in a business of life in which everyone engages and in which the large majority at least appear to be successful . |
| 28 | The Greece that these writers evoke for him is a whole culture , a mode of life in which there is no division between material and spiritual , gods and men : |
| 29 | The idea of a postmodern culture refers , however , to a way of life in which signs and forms of communication have largely become separated from content and from the specific contexts in which they are being projected and received . |
| 30 | That the quality of the reactions of a period of life in which the superego did not as yet exist should be the pattern upon which is modelled the manic state ( the basis of which is temporary withdrawal of the superego ) is exactly what we should expect . |