Example sentences of "of their [adj] lives " in BNC.
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| 1 | As women increasingly spend some of their married lives in careers , it follows also that they have more economic power . |
| 2 | Several young couples took up residence in a neighbouring parish at the start of their married lives but returned later to inherit the family property . |
| 3 | Concluding that there was no economic justification for phasing out the stations before the end of their planned lives , it also told Nuclear Electric that it would be willing to look at plans for capital spending to extend the life of the stations . |
| 4 | In the second week of August , filled by an idealistic vision of their future lives on the banks of the Susquehannah , Coleridge and Southey set out from Bristol on a walking tour into Somerset . |
| 5 | They even talk aloud to themselves and to adults , who will never betray what they hear of the Walter Mitty dreams of their future lives . |
| 6 | Giving students skills , information and conceptual abstractions is worthwhile but only if it is usable in the various circumstances of their future lives . |
| 7 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 8 | Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives . |
| 9 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 10 | He and his wife were a ‘ very , very thrifty ’ , simple-living couple , and right at the end of their long lives quite close . |
| 11 | Their eyes were ancient , filled with the wisdom of their long lives , and their shapes were not quite Tree and not quite Human , but a blend of the two . |
| 12 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |
| 13 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 14 | It is a fact that when people grow old they often turn to the church of the teachings of their early lives as a source of comfort . |
| 15 | To date , manufacturers and retailers have done very little about organising safe disposal of fridges and air conditioning systems at the end of their useful lives . |
| 16 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 17 | Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often . |
| 18 | For most of these children their attendance at school would be limited to a pitifully short period of their young lives . |
| 19 | ‘ It is for the protection of the public that police officers are subject to [ this ] code , which reaches into every aspect of their professional duties and into much of their private lives . ’ |
| 20 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 21 | Countless twentieth-century dictators have been defended from their detractors by pointing out the asceticism of their private lives . |
| 22 | I should like to speak to people of their other lives . |
| 23 | This is not the view of Andrew Dallmeyer , who has written a very thought-provoking play linking Chapman and Lennon through corresponding aspects of their haunted lives . |
| 24 | Not that Crispin was a weak man , but he was a very busy one , and had to be content to leave the management of their joint lives largely to his highly capable wife . |
| 25 | Gilligan points out that Kohlberg thus divests his moral actors of the history and psychology of their individual lives . |
| 26 | In conversation with friends , however , we need knowledge of their individual lives as well as of their social identity . |
| 27 | Most older people cope with the ups and downs of their daily lives . |
| 28 | Most of the recruits at the depot view guard duties as an onerous but vital part of their daily lives . |
| 29 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 30 | Discover the answers as you experience for yourself the sights and sounds of their daily lives . |