Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] lives " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of CI5 's many ‘ dirty tasks ’ to afford protection for the lives of exiles , visitors from repressive Governments , and the representatives of Governments with which Britain maintained the most reluctant and tenuous of diplomatic relations . |
| 2 | ‘ Twelve women were driven to injure themselves out of fear for the lives of their husbands or loved ones . |
| 3 | ‘ Promiscuous , public and semi-professional ’ , it said in one of Madame 's books about the lives of the great courtesans , and I think that 's about it . |
| 4 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
| 5 | " Stopping a ship for even an hour or two — a matter upon which the winning of a battle might depend — might mean the loss of the lives of some of their brave fellows on land or on the sea . |
| 6 | As with any technology its prime concern should be the betterment of the lives of the individuals in society . |
| 7 | We may be appalled by what we find , but there is also consolation in discovering even trivial aspects of the lives of parents and ancestors whose histories we identify with our own . |
| 8 | From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults . |
| 9 | But the war led to the disruption of the lives of many Americans . |
| 10 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 11 | Through the ideological prism of Marxist historicism some Soviet Russian historians see ample justification for the Russians , intrusion into the lives of the Siberian natives in the benefits of civilization which the latter are deemed to have received . |
| 12 | Maeve Binchy 's gift for drawing readers into the lives of people from small communities , and for describing the evolution of friendships , have won her millions of readers . |
| 13 | I must again stress how very grateful we are to the IBOA and AIB for their kindness in continuing to help put a little additional pleasure into the lives of our members . |
| 14 | Religion in the Lives of English Women , 1760–1930 , 1986 . ] |
| 15 | Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area . |
| 16 | The birth of a child is an important landmark in the lives of all concerned . |
| 17 | Sport is a positive , exhilarating force in the lives of those whose attentions and commitments it commands ; but the complexity of the force is sometimes lost on its practitioners and observers . |
| 18 | Its viability depends less on the final validity of its basic assumptions than upon its own internal logical coherence and appropriateness in the lives of those who acquiesce in or profess it . |
| 19 | It is easy to be critical of prejudice in the lives of others , particularly when it is as small minded as that of Phyllis . |
| 20 | The most immediate effect upon the lives of the people , however , came in the railways ' ability to transport perishable foodstuffs very long distances , not just within but between countries . |
| 21 | He decided to run workshops on ‘ having fun ’ after noticing that this was a gap in the lives of many of his clients — and in his own . |
| 22 | Amy Tan won huge critical acclaim for her first novel , The Joy Luck Club , an unforgettable tale of joy and heartbreak in the lives of Chinese Americans . |
| 23 | Unguarded pto shafts , clearing machinery while it is still running , failing to switch off engines , and removing fallen and hung-up trees still exact their toll on the lives of our workforce . |
| 24 | Furthermore , industrial success or failure on a grand scale can have as much , albeit slower , effect as military defeat on the lives and well-being of a country 's citizens . |
| 25 | So there are ways forward in difficult inner-city areas which bring real solutions to the lives of ordinary people , which is what we want to see . |
| 26 | Nevertheless it can have a far-reaching effect on the lives of those identified as known or suspected abusers . |
| 27 | Whereas the peasants continued to be edified through oral accounts of the lives of the Saints and of holy pilgrims , and occasionally learnt to read the alphabet through the Psalter , the upper classes had paid lip-service to the state religion whilst immersing themselves in rationalist Western thought . |
| 28 | The Chicago School employed ethnographic methods of data collection , and produced accounts of the lives of a wide variety of social groups , though with an emphasis on the poor and the deviant . |
| 29 | Some have thought that the life of a society can have a value greater than the sum of the values of the lives of the individuals composing it . |
| 30 | They were ( i ) the immediate , complete , and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the restoration of the deposed Kuwaiti government ; ( iii ) the protection of the lives of US citizens held in Iraq and Kuwait ; and ( iv ) the establishment of regional security and stability in the Persian Gulf . |