Example sentences of "[pron] own life [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 2 | Professionals were in a position in which the interventions they engaged in denied young disabled people the very control over their own lives and education they were intended to promote . |
| 3 | Even when there are specialist historians , producing approximations to truth which their colleagues test and scrutinize to professional standards , people make home brews from their own lives and knowledge and offer them to their successors . |
| 4 | In general , nearly all the Members I interviewed felt that their own lives and life style ( leaving aside their use of procedures ) had not changed greatly since the coming of television . |
| 5 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 6 | However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ? |
| 7 | The Disarmers ' efforts were the only serious attempt made by ordinary citizens to influence policy on this matter of their own life and death . |
| 8 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 9 | And she would be free to escape back to her own life and sanity once more . |
| 10 | Her own life and work faded into insignificance . |
| 11 | She could leave now , could get away from Dane and the cottage , back to her own life and reality . |
| 12 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 13 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 14 | The freedoms threatened by the fatwa went far beyond his own freedom and the principles involved were greater than his own life or death . |
| 15 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 16 | It ruins and wrecks your own life and family 's life as well ! |