Example sentences of "live [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 11 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it . |
| 15 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 16 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 17 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 18 | This small herd of 40 or 50 animals , though enclosed , still has the freedom of 135ha of land and the animals are rarely in contact with humans ; they live as a wild herd and exhibit many interesting behaviour patterns , which have been studied in the past by famous artists and very recently by Cambridge zoologist Stephen Hall , who has published his observations . |
| 19 | This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase . |
| 20 | A smaller proportion , 1 in 11 children under 16 , live with a natural mother and stepfather in a reconstituted family formed by cohabitation or remarriage . |
| 21 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 22 | As the Minister knows , I live in a rural area and if I want to go to hospital I first have to go to Paisley . |
| 23 | For them he is a dark god but a necessary one , for they live in a violent world and must be able to fight when called upon to do so . |
| 24 | We live in a fallen culture and can not be completely exempted from it . |
| 25 | The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament . |
| 26 | So , particularly if you live in a large town and have no garden , bring animals to the microhabitat by putting materials of these kinds in it . |
| 27 | We live in a cause-and-effect world and feel uncomfortable if we can not discover the reasons for the events that surround us . |
| 28 | Nicolas , 32 , and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her . |
| 29 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 30 | This means that if one tries to take an ‘ essential section ’ there is no essence revealed which is the present of each level ; indeed the break valid for one history would not necessarily correspond to that valid for any other which will live in a different time and in a different rhythm . |