Example sentences of "of our [adj] life " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In earlier chapters , we saw that our emotional life is centrally important in the growth of our personal life and faith . |
| 2 | Conversations in stall rooms frequently centred around the pressures of waiting lists , the burden of heavy caseloads , the ‘ hopeless cases , , the lack of appreciation from management , the absence of support and the inevitability of working countless hours of unpaid overtime , at the expense of our personal lives . |
| 3 | Despite this there is a growing market in the sale of personal data , as companies and employers try to find out the details of our personal lives . |
| 4 | Here he knew that the school provided the only chance for its pupils to understand quite how much the newer technologies now mattered both in the life of work and in the daily organization of our private lives . |
| 5 | All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected , unaccountable single central bank . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And it is our behaviour which is the visible expression of our new life in Christ . |
| 10 | I enjoy band work but it can be like a habit , to the detriment of our normal lives . |
| 11 | They are the most real times of our entire life . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | We all dissemble on the subject of our inner life , because it is in such a fluid state . |
| 14 | Out of these qualities , gentleness becomes the sustained environment of our inner lives . |
| 15 | We looked at ourselves in terms of our compulsive traits , seeing the weakest aspects of our inner lives . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is a reality of our professional lives . ’ |
| 18 | We have to stop accepting habits and limiting conditions of our present life and start to observe our actions and reactions to situations . |
| 19 | The purpose of the labour exchanges , as Churchill said , was to curtail the ‘ haphazard and unorganized state of our industrial life ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What has been said in this section concerns consciousness itself , and hence , as remarked above , does not concern all of our mental life . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 26 | Most of our ordinary lives are governed by the part that sees , which is capable of performing ordinary tasks . |
| 27 | These are some of the feelings we may have to explore if we seek not to be victims of our emotional life . |
| 28 | Much of our political life is founded upon assumptions grounded in our monarchist heritage . |
| 29 | Is it possible to make more of our later lives ? |
| 30 | And it allows us to make out a vision of our own lives and , more importantly , the whole life , the world 's life . ’ |