Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course of my own life was changed , similarly and irrevocably , by one of my teachers . |
| 2 | ’ At first I felt I could n't take care of my own life , ’ she says , remembering a rocky past with its broken marriage , drink and drugs . |
| 3 | They gave me what I needed most of all , which was an analysis of my own life , which before then I had n't had . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Disarmers ' efforts were the only serious attempt made by ordinary citizens to influence policy on this matter of their own life and death . |
| 6 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 7 | It is the poverty of their own life which makes the poor content to inhabit ‘ unthinkable ’ houses … which makes so many careless of cleanliness , listless about the unhealthy condition of their workshops , and heedless of anything beyond the enjoyment of a moment 's excitement … |
| 8 | Some adults make the choice to live on their own after they have tried various shared living arrangements and discovered that they prefer to be in control of their own life and make their own rules . |
| 9 | The welfare of human beings , even the comparatively straightforward needs of health , food , and sex , are assessed largely in terms of the individual 's view of their own life . |
| 10 | Each of their own lives would have to take up another uncertain beginning . |
| 11 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 12 | The closeness was as strong as the pull of their own lives ; they lost the pain of individuality within its protection . |
| 13 | The Spastics Society has begun Alternative Lifestyles courses for disabled school leavers , ‘ providing positive alternatives to paid employment and giving them the confidence to take charge of their own lives ’ . |
| 14 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 15 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 16 | The law might be seen to seek a balance between paternalism and liberation , accepting that whilst advancement of the autonomy interests of children to make their own decisions in respect of their own lives is an appropriate aim of the law , some restrictions are necessary to enable children to progress safely to maturity . |
| 17 | Therefore , people who share it have an obligation to obey the law that they acquire through their conduct of their own lives , as part authors of their own moral world . |
| 18 | our purposes frustrating , that older people seem to feature so little in the consciousness of these diarists , preoccupied with the meaning and the daily bustle of their own lives . |
| 19 | Instead we should provide them with the means of taking charge of their own lives ; then — if and when they are ready — help them to understand their payoffs and hidden agendas , so that they can choose to stop playing this destructive game . |
| 20 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 21 | They hand over responsibility to teenage , growing up and growing away , young people , who should gradually feel they are in charge of their own lives , and eventually become fully independent . |
| 22 | The meeting aimed to help the client make choices and take risks , and to be more in control of their own lives . |
| 23 | Coffield , Borrill , and Marshall ( 1986 ) , though giving all the young people in their study pseudonyms of their own choosing , nevertheless ‘ decided to omit a large amount of the richest ( traceable ) data , on the principle that those who are researched own the facts of their own lives and have the right to decide what should and should not be published . |
| 24 | to enhance their decision-making control of their own lives ; |
| 25 | The task of the radio preacher is not to sell his or her own religion like soap powder but to help listeners compose the ‘ scripture ’ of their own lives . |
| 26 | If one adds to this one other incontrovertible fact — that the overwhelming majority of women have lived their lives without economic freedom or autonomy , but as dependants or chattels lacking control over the crucial fixed aspects of their own lives — then it becomes clear that the chameleon nature of women is their necessary self-protection . |
| 27 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 28 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 29 | It seems likely that in ways we can never measure , the preachings about the superiority of the life of the spirit may have been profoundly discouraging and alienating to mothers of very young children , who knew about the realities of their own lives and realized that these preachings were profoundly insensitive to those realities … . |
| 30 | But this policy extend well beyond the IRA and strikes right at the heart of independent community organisations who are interested in seeing the people of the area take control of all aspects of their own lives , including their own work , wealth and education . |