Example sentences of "be live [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 2 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 3 | Jeanne had been living with the Communist Maquis since the disastrous parachute drop over two months ago . |
| 4 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 5 | Not just chip papers and er newspaper type litter what we normally see , it 's if you 're living on the top flat and you have a new settee , how what do you do with that settee ? |
| 6 | ‘ But we 're living in the modern world ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're living in the wrong country , that 's the trouble , ’ he said , grinning broadly as he spoke . |
| 8 | I have to tell you , Pascoe , you 're living in the dead zone . |
| 9 | In 1985 , according to the State Planning Council ( SEGEPLAN ) , 86 per cent of families were living below the official poverty line and 55 per cent were extremely poor . |
| 10 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 11 | The family were living in the small town of Gympie . |
| 12 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 13 | Every working moment of those two uncomfortable , exhausting , memorable weeks were lived on the extreme edge . |
| 14 | I would say from personal experience that the most debilitating stress is the stress brought about by fellow staff , particularly if a person is living in the residential situation . |
| 15 | He was living on the wrong side of the highway . |
| 16 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 17 | He was living in the real world beyond my contorting imagination . |
| 18 | We was living in the other house then |
| 19 | She helped some bairns when she was living in the Australian outback . |
| 20 | Erm we was living in the High Street I believe . |
| 21 | When last sighted , McCartney was living in the soft south , several hundred miles from his natal city . |
| 22 | ‘ Sure , her … last I heard , she was living in the old family house in Illinois . |
| 23 | It is necessary , in other words , to establish a clear distinction between an existence as it was lived in the prewar period , and an existence as it was mythically reproduced in a postwar period . |