Example sentences of "be live [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I confess I should hardly venture to hope that more than two millions of skilled workers , representing a population of five millions , are living habitually in a state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort … |
| 2 | Over half the severely disabled elderly are living only with the spouse and exactly half the spouses caring for an elderly disabled partner are men . |
| 3 | If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay . |
| 4 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 5 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 6 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 7 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 8 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 9 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 10 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 11 | They wore camouflage uniform and , from the looks of them , had been living long in the jungle . |
| 12 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 13 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 14 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 15 | In many cases the husband and wife will be living apart at the time of the court order , or at a time when agreement is reached between them concerning the former matrimonial home , in circumstances that are likely to prove permanent . |
| 16 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 17 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 18 | Let me tell you , Monsieur Lemarchand , that , while you and your mother were living here in the lap of luxury with my father , my own mother was forced to move constantly to cheaper accommodation . |
| 19 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 20 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
| 21 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
| 22 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 23 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 24 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 25 | ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’ |
| 26 | It revolves around a narrator ( never named ) who is living temporarily on the west coast . |
| 27 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 28 | She certainly did n't like to say that he was living there with a girl . |
| 29 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |