Example sentences of "of [pron] daily life " in BNC.

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1 You will ask yourself a question at this point : ‘ Why should such a being be interested in the routines of my daily life ?
2 Little remains to mark their passing other than small artifacts , found in the middens of their daily life .
3 Much of their daily life takes place around this " office " .
4 The evidence shows that these incidents reported in the media are merely the tip of the iceberg ; for many black people in Britain , physical assault or violent verbal expressions of racial hatred are part of their daily life .
5 The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people .
6 It went on to tell of her relief at getting a job as nanny to the Wingfields , and gave an account of their daily life .
7 Most older people cope with the ups and downs of their daily lives .
8 Most of the recruits at the depot view guard duties as an onerous but vital part of their daily lives .
9 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 . ’
10 Discover the answers as you experience for yourself the sights and sounds of their daily lives .
11 The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping .
12 They had nothing left but their suffering , the pain and misery of their daily lives .
13 ‘ The prospect for most , still , in our society is this : That the products of their hands , the living culture developed with others , the art of their daily lives , is stifled , broken and scattered ; its remnants returned in unrecognizable dead forms ’
14 Both men were prolific letter-writers , both allowed their correspondents generous access to all their moods , and gave intimate details of their daily lives .
15 This tertiary level of care is the most highly skilled and complex to provide ; residents are very vulnerable when so much of their daily lives is out of their hands ( Richards , M. 1987 , p. 8 ) .
16 It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) .
17 Linda describes the details of their daily lives , the problems that arose in trying to set up a network of support that was sufficient , stable and yet not undermining of the women 's growing independence , and the different reactions of Elizabeth and Helen to their new life .
18 Nearly half the population is Christian , and the churches remain at the heart of their daily lives
19 As Nayacakalou ( 1961 , p. 125 ) has said , ‘ the people in a village can not be bothered with neat pigeonholes — what they are concerned about are the exigencies of their daily lives ’ .
20 Picasso and Braque turned to the objects closest to hand for their subject-matter , objects forming part of their daily lives and relating to their most immediate and obvious physical necessities and pleasures .
21 The first in a new series of Bookseller features , in which people in the book business offer readers a flavour of the hurly-burly of their daily lives .
22 They do n't have a problem at all it does n't seem to er be part of their daily lives er , that said I do have a farmer of my acquaintance , when I say my acquaintance he happens to be my son-in-law .
23 With financial support from Lothian Region 's education department arts development fund , the project , entitled ‘ Ring the Changes ’ , has encouraged pupils from each school to create a giant collage clock celebrating aspects of their daily lives , from playing football to dreaming .
24 Although from her upbringing it might have been thought that ‘ visiting the sick ’ would be a part of her daily life she had hardly ever — thanks to the Welfare State — had to perform this duty , and then only with her mother or father .
25 These constraints on the quality of her daily life , are enormous .
26 The sentence he constructs to illustrate a particular linguistic feature must , in some sense , derive from the ‘ ordinary language ’ of his daily life and also be acceptable in it .
27 He is learning to enjoy a new range of sour and bitter flavours , of gamey meat and dungy cheese , to set off the wholesome bread of his daily life .
28 for every legislative enactment constitutes a diktat by the state to the citizen which he is not only expected but obliged to observe in the regulation of his daily life and it is the judge and the judge alone who stands between the citizen and the state 's own interpretation of its own rules .
29 Who do you spend your time with her , are your commissioning editors people who are part of your daily life ?
30 In De Officiis he describes two ways that men can do wrong , ‘ by force or by fraud ’ , and says that In order to guard against such destructiveness Cicero urges that ‘ pretence and concealment [ simulatio dissimulatioque ] should be done away with in all departments of our daily life ’ .
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