Example sentences of "of [pron] married life " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 22 years of my married life I maintained these two old people . ’ |
| 2 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |
| 3 | Because of Paul 's job , the early years of their married life were spent in America , then in London . |
| 4 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |
| 5 | Ironically , during that time , Charles and Diana enjoyed the happiest period of their married life . |
| 6 | Employed married women tend to delay their first and second child , compress their childbearing into their late 20s and the second five years of their married life , and avoid third and subsequent births ( compared to housewives ) ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |
| 7 | For he later wrote the enigmatic poem To a Sea-cliff ( Durlston Head ) with its suggestion of estrangement even in the first year of their married life . |
| 8 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 9 | During the middle years of their married life , and before Prince Charles becomes King , it is right that the paths and interests of the Prince and Princess of Wales should diverge somewhat . |
| 10 | She and her husband lived for most of their married life in Oxshott , Surrey , moving later to Golders Green . |
| 11 | As women increasingly spend some of their married lives in careers , it follows also that they have more economic power . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 15 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 16 | Remembering the struggles she had had in the early days of her married life to avoid putting weight on her waist and hips , she laughed . |
| 17 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
| 18 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 19 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 20 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 21 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 22 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 23 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |