Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | As women increasingly spend some of their married lives in careers , it follows also that they have more economic power . |
| 3 | Each of their own lives would have to take up another uncertain beginning . |
| 4 | She looked as if she was not entirely sure she was a cat , as if , thought Henry , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight of her nine lives were oozing out of her like blood from a wound . |
| 5 | As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | She had n't really believed him , but so much of her new life had still to make sense to her that she had not challenged his statement . |
| 8 | ‘ Your wife has repressed the memory of much of her early life , Brian . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 11 | Much of their daily life takes place around this " office " . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | At Gary 's funeral , 500 people packed the church and 200 more were outside to pay their tributes to the well-loved lad who was known to his friends as ‘ The Main Man ’ because he organised holidays , football and much of their social lives . |
| 14 | Rycroft argues against relegating so much of our mental life to the status of pathology , preferring to liken dreams to waking imaginative activity , such as creative writing . |
| 15 | Much of our political life is founded upon assumptions grounded in our monarchist heritage . |
| 16 | Much of his early life was spent in Italy for reasons of health . |
| 17 | R. McNeill Alexander , a zoologist at the University of Leeds , has spent much of his professional life analysing the movement dynamics of animals . |
| 18 | David Whitaker was born in Knebworth , Hertfordshire in 1928 , although fairly soon afterwards his family moved to Barnes in South-West London where he went to school and spent much of his adolescent life . |
| 19 | It is essential at this point to try to understand what is happening to Burton since so much of his public life flows from the tensions between Hollywood and the English stage , between money and art , as it was thought , between philandering and fidelity , between a public and a private life . |
| 20 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 21 | Though Joseph spent much of his later life in exile from his beloved Wallowa Valley , he was never subjugated , possessing a kind dignity that was as powerful as his leadership when young . |
| 22 | Here he first developed his love for the sea , which influenced so much of his later life . |
| 23 | Much of his remarkable life story is revealed in the stained-glass windows of the church ; which were a gift from Philip L. Barbour of Kentucky , U.S.A. who was a foremost biographer of Willoughby 's famous son . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 25 | We 're both very conscious of our independent lives , and yet only feel truly alive when we are together . |
| 26 | The rural women often become tired of their hard lives in the fields and over the years save up the proceeds from the goods they sell at market . |
| 27 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 30 | All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected , unaccountable single central bank . |