Example sentences of "live [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 2 | His father , a small farmer , lives simply within a set of economic relations which are , at least in theory , secure . |
| 3 | Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled . |
| 4 | But yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told that the pair were now living together as a family with their daughter . |
| 5 | There is even a physical basis to the collectivity of women : it has been shown that women living together over a length of time frequently fall into a synchronicity of menstrual cycles . |
| 6 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 7 | Living up to a burden of expectation is never easy . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis . |
| 10 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 11 | Simon lived here as a result of a chance meeting with Mick Leary in a pub . |
| 12 | Tove Jansson 's inhabitants of Moomin Valley ( 1961 , p. 115 ) learn to live together in an atmosphere of Scandinavian hospitality : |
| 13 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 14 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 15 | Why did Holmes live secretly in a hut on the moor ? |
| 16 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 17 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 18 | My mum and aunt are always saying to me , a white girl will first of all be engaged , then marry , then live in her mum 's house for a little while until they can afford the mortgage on their place , then buy a house , live there for a couple of years , then they 'll have the baby . |
| 19 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 20 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 21 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 24 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |