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 | In fact , women at all ages spent proportionately more of their remaining life expectancy in residential care than men . |
| 12 | Ultimately , we can only know our institutions of higher education by coming to understand the quality of their internal life . |
| 13 | The pattern of their future life together was already taking shape . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hovercraft , nearing the end of their long life which began in 1959 with SRN1 , will be replaced by SeaCats . |
| 19 | I still have one or two but they are near the end of their useful life . |
| 20 | ‘ About 14 million vehicles in western Europe reach the end of their useful life every year , ’ BMW 's worldwide recycling boss , Dr Horst-Henning Wolf , said at the factory 's launch yesterday . |
| 21 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 22 | Our two eight foot steel cutters , Vigilant and Valiant were now nearing the end of their useful life and were not really fast enough for our purposes . |
| 23 | To make it perfectly clear , I repeat that we are not saying that Britain should acquire a subsequent follow-on generation of weapons to replace the free-fall bombs that are nearing the end of their useful life . |
| 24 | The British delegation was reported to have suggested a deadline of 2010 , claiming that an earlier target date would force countries to waste money on fitting desulphurisation equipment to power stations nearing the end of their useful life . |
| 25 | Among its other demands are : i ) that manufacturers should be obliged to take back and recycle products at the end of their useful life ; ii ) that the EC should take steps to set up a comprehensive system of environmental liability ; and iii ) that environmental impact assessments on construction projects and other EC-funded programmes be strictly enforced both within and outside Europe . |
| 26 | IN those circumstances , the nuclear element could remain between 20 and 25 per cent — based on a programme of replacing the older Magnox stations as they reach the end of their useful life — while the balance would be taken up by renewable energy . |
| 27 | In respect of themselves and others with whom they interact in the course of their professional life , they should seek to maintain and promote the following standards : |
| 28 | The existence of imperfectly Christianized ‘ rustic ’ masses posed no serious problem except the pastoral one of how to improve the quality of their religious life . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Every aspect of their private life has been laid bare . |