Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main emphasis is on the study and use of modern languages as a preparation for professional life , either as a career linguist or in other language-related posts in business and the professions . |
| 2 | It would also have meant he could not take up his place at Yale Law School , which he felt was an essential part of his preparation for political life . |
| 3 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 4 | Longman has Britain In Close-up , a fairly advanced text about British life and institutions . |
| 5 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 6 | Measurement of head size and length at birth gives an insight into the timing of growth retardation during intrauterine life . |
| 7 | They are thus more ‘ moral ’ or , as he can also say , more ‘ teleological ’ than Islam , for they discern and hold out an ethical purpose and direction for human life . |
| 8 | The parodic elements of Gay 's pastorals are matched by close descriptions and a genuine sympathy for rural life . |
| 9 | Nutrition during fetal life and infancy may be crucial to the development of diabetes mellitus |
| 10 | The earth is the resource base for human life ; its nature is fixed by physical processes — which can be altered both endogenously ( within the physical system ) and exogenously ( by human action ) — but identification of aspects of the environment as a resource is a human creation . |
| 11 | The Funny Side of Wirral , published by husband and wife team Ian and Marilyn Boumphrey , is full of amusing sketches about day-to-day life on the peninsular where Bill has lived for 25 years . |
| 12 | He then traces four traditions on sources of curriculum content , which are similar to the three conflicting claims recognised by the Munn Report , namely : the needs of learners ; demands of society and social realities ; clarification of values for democratic life ; structure of disciplines . |
| 13 | From her newspaper stand on High Row , Darlington , Pat reckons she has gained a wealth of experience about human life . |
| 14 | I mean , you 're taking responsibility for human life all the time . |
| 15 | The Purity Alliance 's rules for daily life advocated cold baths , regular vigorous exercise , moderation in eating and drinking , as well as prayer to guard against moral evil . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not.fit for public Life , ’ he wrote from Bristol to his new friend John Thelwall , the radical lecturer ; ‘ yet the Light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my cottage window ’ . |
| 17 | It is very easy to demonstrate a break between Palaeozoic life and Mesozoic life if Palaeozoic specialists only work on Palaeozoic fossils and if Mesozoic specialists only work on their Mesozoic descendants . |
| 18 | This tension between locally-based life and nationally or internationally based markets and governments leads to what Giddens calls ‘ ontological insecurity ’ , a condition in which people have a limited understanding and control over their circumstances and the processes affecting their daily lives . |
| 19 | In rats the number of cells increases rapidly in the four to six days before birth , and the proliferative compartment — the proportion of β cells able to replicate — is thought to fall from 10% during fetal life to 3% in young adulthood . |
| 20 | Christian Guidelines for Economic Life |
| 21 | What is interesting about Christian guidelines for economic life is that they can not easily be classified as either right wing or left wing , capitalist or socialist . |
| 22 | Or maybe , the soul that has striven to rise above human weakness is given a brief , or longer , sojourn in some higher , astral sphere — until the effects of such aspirations are outweighed by the desires of the mind for more life experience in this denser , physical world . |
| 23 | But these romantic interludes were mere pauses in Diana 's worries about public life , anxieties which did little to subdue her bulimic condition . |
| 24 | There should be a heavy excise duty on sugar , higher taxation of motor fuel , and an extension of VAT to all but the necessities for healthy life , principally unsweetened cereal products and raw fruit , vegetables , fish , meat , eggs and pasteurised milk . |
| 25 | Algae , mosses , liverworts and lichens have many preadaptations but few special adaptations for polar life . |
| 26 | Rapoport ( 1971 ) characterizes antarctic species as heavily pigmented ; otherwise they appear unremarkable , with few special adaptations for polar life . |
| 27 | An empirical orientation to change and a conditional relationship between governors and governed are long-standing characteristics of political life . |
| 28 | ‘ When Freud spoke of civilization ’ , Smith writes , ‘ he had in mind the process of ‘ modernization ’ and the characteristics of urban life in the industrial capitalist cities of his own time' . |
| 29 | Thirdly , the characteristics of later life families have changed over time . |
| 30 | The Chichester copy carries the signature ‘ Thomas Cantuar ’ on the title ; so that it was this very book that had such a significant influence on one of the noblest achievements of our literature and one of the greatest moulders of English life and character . |