Example sentences of "which life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravediggers discuss the unfairness of society and the way in which lives are treated ; and even though this may have been funny , it also made serious social comment . |
| 2 | ‘ Root ’ here links the figure in the sheets to a tree from which life has drained , yet soon it will come alive with galvanic motion . |
| 3 | As Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson considerably modified the tax framework in which life assurance and pensions schemes operated , removing for instance the tax relief on life insurance premiums . |
| 4 | I had discovered that without which life must be worse than death . |
| 5 | He is most famous for his political philosophy , which is embodied in his Elements of Law , completed by 1640 though not published until 1650 ; in his De Cive ( ‘ On the Citizen ’ ) of 1642 ; and , in particular , in his Leviathan ( 1651 ) , a classic and perenially studied account of man 's move from a primitive state of nature , in which life is ‘ solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short ’ , into an organized society , with absolute power vested in the hands of a supreme authority . |
| 6 | More field trips were demanded ; in the new climate in which life was at last prepared to be amenable to Richard 's desires , it seemed natural that Murray should supervise these expeditions . |
| 7 | The tension in the story is between their blood relationship and the different directions in which life has taken them . |
| 8 | The extent to which life is difficult in old age is by no means all determined by nature . |
| 9 | He was an ex-miner , and this endeared him all the more to Chapman , who , being familiar with mining , knew and admired the strength and fighting qualities which life down the pit bred in a man . |
| 10 | Re-evaluate the extent to which life expectancy can be predicted by number of people per doctor when GNP has been controlled . |
| 11 | There is a widespread belief that when we are born we are like a blank sheet of paper on which life begins to write . |
| 12 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 13 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |
| 14 | Her mother and the kitchen were the hub around which life revolved . |
| 15 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 16 | It read : ‘ Over thousands of years , almost all the animals on this planet have engaged in flirting and courtship rights ; it is the stuff from which Life itself evolves . |
| 17 | ‘ Could it be that any living creature has its inception with the creation of a discontinuity in space ( a vortex ) through which life energy flows , sweeping biological molecules , matter , and perhaps even entire embryos along with it in predictable , spiral trajectories ? |
| 18 | A central theme of the exhibition is nature as a theatre in which life 's dramas unfold . |
| 19 | The Great Mother is a symbol of the way in which life is brought into being in the world , from the first hidden appearance of a spark of life in the covered darkness to the birth of a fully formed being . |
| 20 | The womb represents the very first place in which life takes form . |
| 21 | But is this the only basis on which life can exist ? |
| 22 | Another form of inauthenticity may occur when a person lives largely at the level of practical consciousness , in which routines defend against the anxieties which life itself engenders , and fresh desires are seldom asserted . |
| 23 | Another important criticism , associated especially with Bernard Williams , is that utilitarianism ignores the real significance which life has for mature human beings . |
| 24 | The long drawing-room at sunset , illustrated by Phiz ( Fig. 13 ) , is a place from which life has suddenly departed . |
| 25 | He wanted to tell her he had never stopped loving her , that never a single day had passed without him thinking of her , wanting her in his arms or by his side , sharing the success which life had bestowed on him . |
| 26 | Placements in parishes are complemented by one or two three-week residential community placements in which life in a non-church institution , like a hospital , is observed . |
| 27 | Only in rejecting the terms on which life is offered to him can a man discover his real dignity , his real self . ’ |
| 28 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
| 29 | Once again the lower animals were treated as immature versions of the human race , with the growth of the human embryo recapitulating all the stages through which life had passed in order to reach the highest level of development . |
| 30 | Evolution became a ladder rather than a tree , a linear sequence of stages through which life had advanced towards the human form . |