Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] of life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said how surprising it was that even in a small society like ours we should be able to throw up any number of superior people to replace those lost in the normal or abnormal attrition of life . |
| 2 | For Nina this is symbolic of the ‘ pseudo ’ or illusory nature of life on earth , as compared to the reality of the sacred realm beyond . |
| 3 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 4 | There was a shift towards a more casual , private , and hedonistic style of life . |
| 5 | Elena 's specific role in the nightmarish final decade of the couple 's rule in Romania was to flatter the Comrade 's love of statistics for their own sake in the most personal and private area of life : childbirth . |
| 6 | The genteel and pleasant routine of life which he understood , despite the lengthening shadow of his father 's illness , was convulsed in 1943 , when Nathan Cohen died , and the family was plunged into loss and grief . |
| 7 | Very often heavy cloud over the target area would completely obscure it and the bombs were sometimes dropped more by luck than good judgement and often in quite the wrong places , with the resulting waste of time and armament and unnecessary loss of life . |
| 8 | They argue that the same rigour should be applied to the study of older patients with cancer as for younger - ‘ only then will we see strikingly reduced population mortality and improved quality of life for older patients with cancer . ’ |
| 9 | The management of these patients should be directed towards the control of pain , treatment of correctable complications and improved quality of life . |
| 10 | In sum , community empowerment , therefore , becomes a social action process that promotes participation of people , who are in positions of perceived and actual powerlessness , towards goals of increased individual and community decision-making and control , equity of resources , and improved quality of life ( Wallerstein , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | By attempting to sustain life at all costs , and by refusing to admit the fact that death is a good and proper part of life , doctors are in error . |
| 12 | The later wildness and eccentricity of his style were completely out of character with his conventional , moral and industrious way of life ; his obituary reported that he had died from overwork . |
| 13 | We will also use indicators of social and personal quality of life such as changes in life expectancy , literacy rates and educational attainments to give a better measure of progress . |
| 14 | Long term survival in patients after urgent cardiac transplantation and perceived quality of life . |
| 15 | We hope that , during your stay in Madeira , you will find an opportunity to visit Porto Santo with its eight-kilometre long sandy beach and relaxed way of life . |
| 16 | The industrialized and urbanized mode of life involved the replacement of magic and mystery by precisely calculable and strictly functional procedures , a less obvious but equally pervasive fact of modern life . |
| 17 | The Bull Ring Archive was founded in 1989 to complete a unique and compelling chronology of life in The Bull Ring . |
| 18 | Free to speak his mind , Brian Keenan wanted to tell the world his graphic and compelling account of life as a hostage . |
| 19 | The broad pluralist term was then especially important in the nineteenth-century development of comparative anthropology , where it has continued to designate a whole and distinctive way of life . |
| 20 | Later , in The Use of Poetry , he links in one sentence Fitzgerald and Buddhism : ‘ I am not a Buddhist , but some of the early Buddhist scriptures affect me as parts of the Old Testament do ; I can still enjoy Fitzgerald 's Omar , though I do not hold that rather smart and shallow view of life . ’ |
| 21 | Mopsus 's father pursues an ordered and predictable way of life : ‘ His Calves and Oxen were his only Care , / His homely Servants , and his smiling Heir ’ [ ML , 2 , 11 ] . |
| 22 | It was a complete and utter waste of life . ’ |
| 23 | Nevertheless , more traditional weapons of bombardment were also used — including " carpet bombing " by B-52s — and Iraqi sources claimed that the air attacks had resulted in the widespread destruction of non-military targets and considerable loss of life among the civilian population . |
| 24 | As they made their way slowly home in the late afternoon , Laura sighed with contentment as she viewed the peaceful farm fields between the towns and villages , which stretched hazily into the distance and embodied the stillness of an old and continuing way of life . |
| 25 | When the Exhibitors Herald described The Song of Life ( 1922 ) as being ‘ an appealing and forceful story of life 's drab realities ’ and in particular of ‘ the dull existence of a track laborer 's wife ’ it was complimenting worthy endeavour rather than laying the foundation for a blockbuster . |
| 26 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 27 | That the Romans had " abandoned the disciplined , frugal and stern manner of life that had brought them to such greatness , and fell into the pernicious pursuit of luxury and licence " ( 37.2. 1 ) was , in the same perspective , seen as the primary cause of the Social War . |
| 28 | For originally , Gothic was one of the number of aesthetic developments which serve to breach the classical and rational order of life , and to make possible a kind of response , and a response to a kind of thing that among the knowing had long been taboo . |
| 29 | ‘ The intellectual and rational conception of life has given way to a more creative interpretation ’ , wrote the British Surrealist Eileen Agar in 1931 , ‘ and artistic life is under the sway of womb-magic ’ ; and Agar give expression to this ‘ womb-magic ’ in the foetal and embryonic forms which play a central part in paintings such as ‘ Family Trio ’ or ‘ The Autobiography of an Embryo ’ where fluid shapes float across the picture plane to be captured in a net of geometric planes . |
| 30 | That , with what would certainly be substantial assets and income from other sources , combined with whatever part of the Saunderson fortune was brought into the marriage by Olive , allowed the Fields to indulge in a stylish and lavish way of life . |