Example sentences of "of life [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indians wrote no historical books with numerical dates and regarded personal life as one of a succession of lives of the same individual repeated infinitely often in endless time . |
| 2 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 3 | The hot gas did its work swiftly , extinguishing thousands of lives in the space of two or three minutes . |
| 4 | The north-facing slopes of the Montagne de Reims bore the brunt of the hostilities , yet the damage done to the vineyards during the Battle of the Marne was negligible compared with the inhuman slaughter and tragic loss of lives in the trenches . |
| 5 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 6 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 7 | Ruth had the feeling that he was desperately trying to inject a bit of life into the party and she felt guilty that she , for one , had so far been very dull company . |
| 8 | Jesus has brought a unique new way of life into the world ; St John described it in those first verses of his gospel : |
| 9 | I quicken my step , keeping my eyes fixed ahead , hoping for a sign of life about the croft . |
| 10 | For a long time I assumed she was joking , but not only was I wrong , I was also ignorant of the hard facts of life about the value of students with special needs and the staff who work with them . |
| 11 | Rank 's Simon and Laura ( 1955 ) pursued a different tack , mocking TV for the phoniness of its images of life through the story of a married couple in a TV soap , who are represented as cooing doves on the screen when in reality they always bicker and squabble . |
| 12 | … syndrome of religious rites symbolizing the struggle to preserve the egg of life through the rigours of impending winter . |
| 13 | So we can follow the history of life through the strata and trace the lineages of animals back to their beginnings by going deeper and deeper into the earth 's crust . |
| 14 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 15 | The consequence is an increasingly standardised way of life or at least aspirations towards a particular way of life across the world . |
| 16 | Now about halfway through the project , sends us his impressions of life across the ‘ pond ’ . |
| 17 | It was Goebbels who said : ‘ The best propaganda is not that which is always revealing itself : the best propaganda is that which works invisibly , penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge at all of the propagandist 's initiative . ’ |
| 18 | It is an extraordinary account , but then any vision of life at the end of the universe is bound to be . |
| 19 | His wife , Barbara , made £508,000 as Millie 's Story , her tale of life at the top through the eyes of her dog , soared into the best seller list . |
| 20 | But if the patient could be restored to a state whereby he could enjoy a further period of life at the level of comfort he previously had , then it should be treated . |
| 21 | Readers interested in the shellfish-collecting side of life at the site might find it helpful to read Elizabeth Voigt 's chapter alongside Betty Meehan 's fascinating Shell Bed to Shell Midden , a book newly published by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra on the role of shellfish in the life of a group of Australian Aborigines who live in Arnheim Land in Northern Territory . |
| 22 | After Mrs Deacon 's death there was no change in the pattern of life at the rectory , and Nahum 's comforts remained the same . |
| 23 | Experience a completely uninterrupted view of life at the bottom of the sea in our spectacular Underwater Tunnel as dozens of sharks , stingrays and a host of other sea creatures swim all around you . |
| 24 | She enjoyed all aspects of life at the salon but , as she was increasingly called upon to show clothes , Constance began to love the opportunities for discreetly showing off . |
| 25 | Stricken Dakota teaching the saving of life at the International Fire and Safety Training School on the former Hal Far airfield . |
| 26 | An excellent summary of life at the OCU appeared in the RAF magazine , Air Clues . |
| 27 | It is bad enough if you corrupt the man , but if you corrupt the woman , you poison the waters of life at the very fountain . ’ |
| 28 | Pledges from around the world are being taken out to Rio de Janeiro ( courtesy of British Airways ) where they will be assembled into a symbolic Tree of Life at the heart of the Earth Summit 's activities . |
| 29 | If the thing was so valuable , then the secrecy and the size of the fee were understandable And if how the Emissary lived was any indication of life at the top on Fraxilly , presumably the God-King did like to own things worth a planet 's ransom . |
| 30 | Later in the year will come a biography of Michael MacLiammoir , a fly-on-the-wall account of life at the Royal Court , a memoir by John Gielgud and the Complete Prefaces of Granville Barker — about 25 to 30 titles a year , all of them theatre related . |