Example sentences of "of our [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | In earlier chapters , we saw that our emotional life is centrally important in the growth of our personal life and faith . |
| 2 | All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected , unaccountable single central bank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it is our behaviour which is the visible expression of our new life in Christ . |
| 7 | They are the most real times of our entire life . |
| 8 | In much the same way , Hilton and Dame Julian were both inspired by the scholastic rediscovery of St Augustine 's theology of the Trinity , which , St Thomas Aquinas said , was ‘ the fruit and goal of our entire life ’ . |
| 9 | We all dissemble on the subject of our inner life , because it is in such a fluid state . |
| 10 | Next week we shall be looking at the impact these methods of delivering care have upon such varied areas of our professional life as advocacy , ethics , accountability and assertiveness . |
| 11 | We have to stop accepting habits and limiting conditions of our present life and start to observe our actions and reactions to situations . |
| 12 | The purpose of the labour exchanges , as Churchill said , was to curtail the ‘ haphazard and unorganized state of our industrial life ’ . |
| 13 | They all concern , in different ways , the appearance-reality distinction , because cognisance must be understood in terms of our drawing this distinction in every area of our mental life . |
| 14 | The fact that we often feel that our thoughts come unheralded by ‘ intentions ’ , that the content of our mental life is unwilled , just demonstrates how thin is the layer of consciousness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What has been said in this section concerns consciousness itself , and hence , as remarked above , does not concern all of our mental life . |
| 17 | When we come to consider the importance of our individual life stories , we 'll see more clearly the significance of these echoes from the past . |
| 18 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |
| 19 | Much of our political life is founded upon assumptions grounded in our monarchist heritage . |
| 20 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
| 21 | The knock-on effect will be seen in the crime rate and in other aspects of our social life . |
| 22 | The simple consequence is that , being so deeply buried in the human unconscious , any attempt to uncover the repressed foundations of our social life is bound to encounter severe resistances , especially in the minds of those who have convinced themselves that there is no psychic trauma at the origin of human society and no painful consequences of it hidden within every one of us . |
| 23 | These conditions touch on many aspects of our national life : health threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes ; education retarded when children have no room in which to do homework , or arrive tired at school after sleeping in a room with several others ; marriages broken up through the strain of sharing a home or making do in cramped and uncomfortable quarters ; Borstal institutions , remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life . |
| 24 | In almost every aspect of our national life , from the educational system to the institution of marriage , the ethic of instant gratification and the rejection of perseverance and the long haul are clearly evident . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State for Education and Science has referred to LEAs ' and schools ' ‘ important responsibility to work towards the promotion of equality of opportunity for the different ethnic groups who are part of our national life ’ . |
| 26 | This is why we have instituted imaginative reforms of education , of health , of the legal profession , of social security , and of other crucial areas of our national life — so that we do n't just do more , but also do better . |
| 27 | Since television is now admitted to all other public aspects of our national life it is absurd for the Commons to conceal themselves . |
| 28 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is general support for the emphasis that the Foreign Secretary has placed on the importance of keeping the European Commission out of the nooks and crannies of our national life ? |
| 29 | Is the Minister not concerned about the Commission 's power to investigate various nooks and crannies of our national life ? |
| 30 | The House must retain control of those aspects of our national life that are properly dealt with here : above all , we must retain responsibility for key decisions about foreign policy and defence , and the issues of war and peace . |