Example sentences of "of their [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Schumpeter called the ‘ classical doctrine ’ of democracy differs in several respects from the theories I have just outlined , one of the crucial differences being that it conceives democracy as a historical movement which aims constantly to extend the area within which the members of a society can govern themselves by participating fully and freely in the regulation of their collective life . |
| 2 | There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life . |
| 3 | Because of Paul 's job , the early years of their married life were spent in America , then in London . |
| 4 | In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats . |
| 5 | Ironically , during that time , Charles and Diana enjoyed the happiest period of their married life . |
| 6 | Employed married women tend to delay their first and second child , compress their childbearing into their late 20s and the second five years of their married life , and avoid third and subsequent births ( compared to housewives ) ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |
| 7 | For he later wrote the enigmatic poem To a Sea-cliff ( Durlston Head ) with its suggestion of estrangement even in the first year of their married life . |
| 8 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 9 | During the middle years of their married life , and before Prince Charles becomes King , it is right that the paths and interests of the Prince and Princess of Wales should diverge somewhat . |
| 10 | She and her husband lived for most of their married life in Oxshott , Surrey , moving later to Golders Green . |
| 11 | As women increasingly spend some of their married lives in careers , it follows also that they have more economic power . |
| 12 | Several young couples took up residence in a neighbouring parish at the start of their married lives but returned later to inherit the family property . |
| 13 | In fact , women at all ages spent proportionately more of their remaining life expectancy in residential care than men . |
| 14 | Ultimately , we can only know our institutions of higher education by coming to understand the quality of their internal life . |
| 15 | Concluding that there was no economic justification for phasing out the stations before the end of their planned lives , it also told Nuclear Electric that it would be willing to look at plans for capital spending to extend the life of the stations . |
| 16 | The pattern of their future life together was already taking shape . |
| 17 | How she longed to be indoors , snuggled up in bed , driving out of her system the damp cold , and the misery of parting from Len , with a hot-water bottle and impossible dreams of their future life together . |
| 18 | In the second week of August , filled by an idealistic vision of their future lives on the banks of the Susquehannah , Coleridge and Southey set out from Bristol on a walking tour into Somerset . |
| 19 | They even talk aloud to themselves and to adults , who will never betray what they hear of the Walter Mitty dreams of their future lives . |
| 20 | Giving students skills , information and conceptual abstractions is worthwhile but only if it is usable in the various circumstances of their future lives . |
| 21 | For one very special class of viruses however , integration into the cell 's chromosomes appears to be an essential part of their normal life cycle . |
| 22 | Since these early studies , many viruses have been shown to cause cancer in animals , particularly the retroviruses with their requirement for chromosomal integration as part of their normal life cycle . |
| 23 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 24 | Indeed , words can be used which will often hide the very feelings which are at the root of the individual 's problems , and which represent the reality of their emotional lives . |
| 25 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hovercraft , nearing the end of their long life which began in 1959 with SRN1 , will be replaced by SeaCats . |
| 28 | He and his wife were a ‘ very , very thrifty ’ , simple-living couple , and right at the end of their long lives quite close . |
| 29 | Their eyes were ancient , filled with the wisdom of their long lives , and their shapes were not quite Tree and not quite Human , but a blend of the two . |
| 30 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |