Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] lives " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Young 's New Zealand report concludes that ‘ rape is an experience which shakes the foundations of the lives of the victims . |
| 11 | But there was another reason why some places were holy — not intrinsically — but through their association with a past even more venerable than that of the martyrs : the sites of the lives of the apostles and the Lord . |
| 12 | Their sole effects upon the lives of the aged , before old-age pensions were introduced in 1908 , were the LGB circulars of 1895–99 . |
| 13 | This double view of the female has repercussions within the lives of Hindu women . |
| 14 | Taking on the care of an elderly relative is likely to have far-reaching and sometimes long-term effects on the lives of the carer and their family and friends . |
| 15 | For example , a recent chilling national survey of pollution and its chronic effects on the lives and deaths of American citizens concluded that approximately 9 per cent of all deaths , that is , 140,000 a year , may be attributable to air pollution . |
| 16 | It also indicates the links between accessibility and quality of life , and between housing tenure and housing conditions , and their eventual effects on the lives of occupants . |
| 17 | Even though people in the state of nature have rights and duties concerning the lives , liberty , and possessions of themselves and others , it does not follow that these are respected and obeyed . |
| 18 | Each line speaks volumes about the lives of the real people ( in the first two instances ) and the characters ( in the third example ) involved , and if ever you feel in need of a cure for insomnia just memorize one of these quotations , take it to bed with you , and try to imagine the events that could have preceded and followed the moment described in each of the brief extracts . |
| 19 | It has drawn its evidence , too , from a more recent feminist literature which has rooted its perspectives in the lives of white women living with men . |
| 20 | NEXT OVER THE PARAPET was east Londoner Alan Cooke , with his entirely self-published Shades Of Grey , a rough and ready roller-coaster trip through a couple of weeks in the lives of a black detective and an out-of-control street kid with a gun . |
| 21 | A Chief Whip is in a special position to be able to understand the many strains in the lives of colleagues that are unheard of beyond the bounds of Westminster , and often unheard of except within very small circles in this place . |
| 22 | He shows marked fondness for first-grade readers that tell about occurrences in the lives of children . |
| 23 | But there is a danger that the current reforms will leave untouched fundamental assumptions about the lives and needs of service users . |
| 24 | The exhibition was full of gaudy paintings of the lives of Chairman Mao and Chou En Lai , and similar themes . |
| 25 | [ Alexander Haldane , Memoirs of the Lives of R. Haldane , of Airthrey , and of his Brother J. A. Haldane , 1852 ; anon. , A Biographical Sketch of Alexander Haldane … communicated to the ‘ Record ’ of July 28 , 1882 ; J. A. L. Haldane , The Haldanes of Gleneagles , 1929 ; information from Dr I. S. Rennie . ] |
| 26 | It may hold within it the memories of the lives it has fostered , and the foreknowledge of the forms that will be rooted there . |
| 27 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 28 | And there followed a paragraph in smaller script : ‘ Derived by the inductive method from studies of the lives of famous and infamous men and women , past and present , and including a new Universal Alphabet which disposes of the conflict between the ‘ Hebrew ’ and the ‘ Modern ’ systems . ’ |
| 29 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 30 | The Mirror can reveal that there will be dramatic changes in the lives of the favourite characters that have regularly pulled in 16 million viewers over the last six years . |