Example sentences of "our life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 2 | It is sometimes thought , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) that , because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in disorder . |
| 3 | I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order . |
| 4 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 5 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 6 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 7 | The idea that it is happening elsewhere prevalent in our lives . |
| 8 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 9 | For our lives . |
| 10 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 11 | Since we live at 1g for virtually all of our lives , the feeling of even slightly reduced ‘ g ’ is unusual and , for many people , alarming ( it can be associated with nightmare dreams of falling ) . |
| 12 | Well I guess we have a lot to catch up on , like the whole of our lives seeing as we finally got to say hello to each other only years ago . |
| 13 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 14 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 15 | We went back to our lives of ordinary miracles |
| 16 | When children leave home , parents feel somewhat redundant , while a pet can enter our lives at any stage , providing hours of pleasure , love and immense fulfilment . |
| 17 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 18 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 19 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 20 | She has her own purpose and we are very proud to have her in our lives to love . ’ |
| 21 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 22 | Remembrance is thus able to move further into our lives than visits to memorials , was graves or churches — important as these are as symbols and as a focus of personal and public remembrance . |
| 23 | By contrast , says Clarke , the poor and working class within those communities have often been more accepting of those ‘ who would be outcast by the ruling culture — many times to spite the white man , but mainly because the conditions of our lives have made us empathic ’ . |
| 24 | The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts — education/full-time work/retirement — seems to me to be absurd . |
| 25 | ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives . |
| 26 | Sport may be taken too seriously ; high-performance spectator sport is arguably too central to our lives already . |
| 27 | However , our lives worked out , we are both happily remarried and , since we only live a mile apart , it 's very easy for the children to come and go to visit their father . ’ |
| 28 | • Is the clock the same in all of us and at all stages of our lives ? • What do we know about the clock itself — where is it , what influences it , and how does it work ? • What is the usefulness of such a clock ? |
| 29 | These are important times of our lives — too often biology books neglect them and assume we are forever in our youth and prime . |
| 30 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |