Example sentences of "['s] life [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect the cream of Allied Dunbar 's life assurance business to be attacked soon — by the three men who built its assets to £7.5 billion . |
| 2 | Contact your local branch to arrange an appointment with a Consultant from Royal Scottish Assurance [ RSA ] , the Bank 's life assurance , pensions and investment company , who will be delighted to answer any further questions that you may have . |
| 3 | The contribution of feminist theory could be an egalitarian methodology where participation by all is respected and each person 's life experience is valued and validated . |
| 4 | These ideas , expressed a year before his death in 1973 , epitomized Burr 's life work . |
| 5 | The counsellor as ‘ historian ’ is perhaps an unusual view , but by travelling through an individual 's life history , and especially when making a physical record through family albums , scrapbooks , memorabilia , and genealogies , the counsellor is in effect producing an important autobiography which serves both functions . |
| 6 | " The essence of the historical process , " says Tamara Hareven in Family Time and Industrial Time , is the meeting between an individual 's or a group 's life history and the historical moment . |
| 7 | But events in one 's life history could change this . |
| 8 | be used to create a Time Line , whereby we create a visual representation of someone 's life history on the floor of the school hall — perhaps with still images at various points , or carefully chosen objects to remind us of particularly significant moments in a person 's life . |
| 9 | But Brown and Harris 's Life Event and Difficulties Schedule ( LEDS ) would not lump all births together in this way . |
| 10 | The group has dominant market share down-under , taking about a third of Australia 's life insurance business , and needs to look beyond its local market for opportunities . |
| 11 | Gavin , of Briar Drive , Huyton , admitted eight charges of stealing cash from the council 's Life Insurance Welfare Scheme . |
| 12 | A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course . |
| 13 | my personal salvation history ( it can be both encouraging and revealing to review one 's life journey and trace the different stages within it . |
| 14 | After her husband 's life sentence , Mrs Sisulu , 68 , was detained without charge twice . |
| 15 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 16 | The bizarre dream-like tale of Roger Bacon 's brazen head first appeared in the late medieval period and was a popular romantic fable tacked onto Bacon 's life story . |
| 17 | ‘ The following poem by Tennyson describes perfectly for me both Nigel 's life story and his philosophy . |
| 18 | As Bertaux-Wiame ( 1979 , p. 29 ) notes , the act of telling one 's life story is an encounter with reality . |
| 19 | Sydney Morning Herald sportswriter Greg Growden 's task was not easy , for not only was Fleetwood-Smith 's life story shrouded in all kinds of mysteries — from his name and birth-date ( 1908 , not 1910 ) at one end to burial details at the other — but there was a general reluctance among acquaintances to resurrect the past , for this ex-Test cricketer was , like many a scoundrel , loved by most who knew him . |
| 20 | [ Henry Varley jun. , Henry Varley 's Life Story , 1913 . ] |
| 21 | Tomorrow , it said , our ace reporter , Ron Barton , will bring you exclusively Amaranth 's life story written by the new Madonna herself . |
| 22 | David Icke 's life story will be in the shops by the autumn . |
| 23 | Barry also reviews the latest releases , including the film of Tina Turner 's life story , ‘ What 's Love Got To Do With It ’ , while Peter Greenaway 's ‘ The Baby of Macon ’ examines the exploitation by the Church of a miracle child . |
| 24 | Perturbed by the lack of enthusiasm from the corporate sector in the UK , AMT 's US operation has been the company 's life support system for some time . |
| 25 | The orderly shrugged as he went about his task of switching off Company Shock Trooper ( Third Class ) Jason Curtis Dommer 's life support machine . |
| 26 | And the idiots had hooked the man 's life support onto a wholly independent generator , the prison fail-safe . |
| 27 | A FATHER told a murder trial yesterday of the agonising decision to switch off his baby son 's life support machine after he had been severely brain damaged while in the care of the nurse Beverley Allitt . |
| 28 | Mr Parry and his wife Wendy took the painful decision to switch off their son 's life support system . |
| 29 | We trace Alfred 's life back in order to find the origin of his dishonesty , but along the way we come across many peculiar situations before we know what brought them about . |
| 30 | Flying in the face of today 's ubiquitous electronickery , the turbocharger uses nothing more than a simple spring-loaded wastegate to regulate boost , which is never allowed to build too high in deference to the engine 's life expectancy . |