Example sentences of "live [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 2 | Her parents are dead , so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children . |
| 3 | The reality is that , from specialist beginnings , the range of skills required by actuaries is expanding continually — the reason being that the actuarial profession lives in a commercial environment and has to adapt continuously to changing circumstances . |
| 4 | But the animal also lives in an external environment and we have here a fundamental new set of ethical values being developed by the ecologists and ‘ green ’ people . |
| 5 | The greater bamboo lemur lives in the Madagascan rainforest and has been affected by the decline in giant bamboo stems which are now used up by human settlements . |
| 6 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 7 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 9 | They also made a good point , that all timber-frame houses should be formally recorded as such either by the NHBC or on the title deeds , ‘ so that people realise they are living in a timber-frame house and can take professional advice when making alterations ’ . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We are now living in a post-apartheid era and it is about time member of the Labour group came to realise that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 12 | To provide a service within the community by providing a safe , secure environment in which the individual 's rights and needs are recognised , by assisting clients to adjust to living in a communal setting and providing support for clients using professional agencies and the resources of the department . |
| 13 | However , my corresponding Ego fantasy is of losing my wits to such an extent that I am unable to work ; I am living in a filthy bedsit and the floor is strewn with pieces of paper that I am unable to make sense of , final demands which have not been paid , dirty clothes , plants which have fallen over , unwashed plates and mugs — and I am curled up in a foetal ball , wishing the world would go away ! |
| 14 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 15 | As a generalisation Korean communism may be divided into Koreans living in the Soviet Union and loyal to Moscow ; Koreans working with the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) ; Koreans operating as guerrillas in Manchuria and pursuing forays against the Japanese ; and Korean communists working secretly in Korea . |
| 16 | Indeed , as Barry Rubin has pointed out in his seminal history Paved with Good Intentions , " Tens of millions of Iranians , particularly those living in the rural villages and even the many peasants who had recently migrated to the cities , accepted these clerical proclamations as guides top proper behaviour towards their King . |
| 17 | Under this heading the commitment to reduce disparities between the standards of living in the various countries and regions of the Community was given greater emphasis . |
| 18 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 19 | There were plenty of wild cats living in the nearby countryside and the inhabitants of Jericho may simply have trapped or hunted these wild felines and then eaten them . |
| 20 | It should not be forgotten either that in this so-called era of peace , there are wars going on in many parts of the world which means that some people are living in an unsafe environment and in constant danger . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 23 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 24 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 25 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 26 | We owned no property , as we lived in a rented flat and in any case needed a home in London for at least two more years . |
| 27 | He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it . |
| 28 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 29 | After the Civil War ended in 1939 Ibárruri lived in the Soviet Union and was leader of the PCE in exile , first as secretary-general in 1942 and then as president from 1960 . |
| 30 | So Charles and his family lived in the southernmost house and shop on the east side of the street , a fact confirmed by a deed of 1783 which defined the property in question as being immediately to the north of a stable , killing house and other buildings owned by Daniel Rossiter , clothier . |