Example sentences of "of living [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By any standards , the insect body must be reckoned the most successful of all the solutions to the problems of living on the surface of the earth . |
| 2 | This is seen , for instance , in the denial to prostitutes of ‘ normal ’ family relations through the existence and increased harshness of the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution , which effectively stops them from living with a partner . |
| 3 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 4 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 5 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 6 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 7 | As we saw in chapter ten , the beatitudes of Jesus express the radicalism of living under the rule of God 's own character . |
| 8 | He had overcome the main drawback of living in the country at Etten , since now he could associate with other artists , exchange views , be stimulated by the work and lives of others with whom he had something in common . |
| 9 | They are frequently denied the choice of living in the village in which they were born and brought up or in the village close to their employment . |
| 10 | A lot of very young single mums , if the did n't have relative in the area , found the pressures of living in the flats on benefit , er pretty severe . |
| 11 | They were n't used to the cheek-by-jowl contact it entailed ; the notion of living in the state of interdependence that bound Dora Lavender and Rose Kettle would have horrified them both . |
| 12 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 13 | Joe straightened his back against the wooden chair , at the same time reaching out and placing one hand flat on the edge of the long polished table and , looking across at Mr Beecham and James Holden , who sat by his side , he said slowly but firmly , ‘ I have no intention of … of living in the house after today . |
| 14 | The comfort of having the big glass here at last , he wrote , of living in the shadow of its coldness , its emptiness . |
| 15 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
| 16 | Dr Sequeira and his team have inherited some 65 long-stay patients who have no family and no prospects of living in the community without financial and other support . |
| 17 | WHATEVER your dream of living by the water in the West Country , now is the time to make the move . |
| 18 | James Grant included ‘ The Pawnbroker ’ in Pictures of Popular People in 1842 , their reputation having improved since the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1745 which had deplored the pawnbroker 's role of living by the miseries of mankind . |
| 19 | As a result of living within the rigours of a farming calendar these people understood the imperatives of the seasons ; they knew instinctively that the day did not stop just because it was dark , that work might be slack one day but fraught for the next three . |