Example sentences of "live [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 2 | Lives on behind the wrinkled brows |
| 3 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 4 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 5 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 6 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 7 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 8 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 9 | Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk , the enterprise lived up to the best expectations . |
| 10 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 11 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 12 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 13 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 14 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
| 15 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 16 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 17 | I used to live here in the old days , before my mother left , then my father died . |
| 18 | Bob and Beryl live just off the beaten tracks |
| 19 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 20 | The key question was whether , in practice , the numbers of candidates enrolling for the new system would live up to the high expectations . |
| 21 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 22 | They lived briefly in the great camps round and about , and then vanished . |
| 23 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 24 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |