Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' lives " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , the good old US Fifties , where trade unionists got shot dead for striking in Detroit , where blacks got lynched by the Klan without hindrance in the South , and where Senator Joe McCarthy or FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover destroyed peoples ' lives for having beliefs contrary to their own . |
| 2 | Again , it was the challenge to acknowledge God 's presence in other peoples ' lives as well as our own . |
| 3 | Social service departments in general , and social workers in particular have no wish to interfere in peoples ' lives unless there are difficulties , of which inability to cope with current circumstances is the most obvious . |
| 4 | As a florist you 're dealing with most important days in peoples ' lives , very often new babies , weddings , funerals , erm but no , I would n't say if weddings disappeared we 'd all be you know , in a terrible mess as a professionals , but it 's a very important part and an enjoyable part . |
| 5 | Step I of the Family Fellowships is " Admitted that we were powerless over alcohol ( drugs and other peoples ' lives ) — that our lives had become unmanageable " . |
| 6 | I dare say it seemed distinguished enough while you were living it — distinguished , at least , from other peoples ' lives . " |
| 7 | Well I mean you know we 're not playing children 's ganging up games are we we know we 're dealing with peoples ' lives and families . |
| 8 | SI is calling for the UK to ban the importation of cheap coal produced at the expense of tribal peoples ' lives and livelihoods . |
| 9 | I felt I knew what addicts ' lives are like and what they think they 're getting from dope . |
| 10 | All breeding and laying flocks have to be registered and are required to undertake extensive testing for salmonella at every stage of the hens ' lives . |
| 11 | The interviewer is concerned not with taking over and controlling the clients ' lives , but with helping them handle problems in order that they may fashion their own lives according to their own values . |
| 12 | The book is also an attempt to link together and blend theory , policy and practice in the belief that well-informed policy and practice are likely not only to be more sensitive to the realities of clients ' lives and needs , but also more cost effective in the long term . |
| 13 | It seems irresponsible and morally indefensible to intervene in clients ' lives if you are uncertain about what can be achieved and the best methods of doing so . |
| 14 | CANCER — THIS could be one of the most important years in many Cancerians ' lives . |
| 15 | But Alan Lyddiard 's adaptation is strong on physical impact — the sheer effort involved in ploughing , the hunger and pain of the animals ' lives . |
| 16 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 17 | ‘ Background ’ is the bane of experimentalists ' lives . |
| 18 | No warning had been given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing was told . |
| 19 | No warning was given by the soldiers because they believed their comrades ' lives were in danger and they were under fire from the hijacked car , the hearing had been told . |
| 20 | The fear of invasion was a powerful factor in many refugees ' lives . |
| 21 | My fourth point is that some of you may be persuaded to regard as a good reason for non-intervention the fact that the child , if it survives , will so disrupt its parents ' lives as to destroy the marriage , or will end up in some institution , in a form of living death . |
| 22 | Their parents ' lives have changed too . |
| 23 | I have seen many toddlers comprehensively ‘ running ’ their own and seemingly their parents ' lives , but they did n't look very happy getting their own way . |
| 24 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 25 | It was callous of him to embitter and spoil their parents ' lives . |
| 26 | They have totally taken over their parents ' lives in the three-storey Victorian terraced house at Heaton Moor near Manchester , but John and Veronica have managed to keep the most formal of their elegant living rooms relatively child-free . |
| 27 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 28 | By investing in public transport , we start to transform commuters ' lives and create a cleaner environment . |
| 29 | Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour . |
| 30 | It does not touch most poor blacks ' lives . |