Example sentences of "to live [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 2 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 3 | But even the happiness Mother and Father felt at being able to live together under the same roof at last was tinged with sadness , because they both liked Stainmore very much and would have preferred to stay in the area . |
| 4 | It was rare for more than one married couple to live together in the same house . |
| 5 | Inevitably single women with children and elderly women form an important part of this group , and indeed , housing associations and co-ops have been important in providing groups with an opportunity to live collectively as a positive alternative to the nuclear family . |
| 6 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 7 | Despite one outburst from John Heard , there 's no attempt to explore another sinister possibility , that all men conceal their true identity in order to live up to the modern woman 's expectation of her ‘ dream man ’ . |
| 8 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 9 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother . |
| 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 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 18 | Both came from peasant stock of considerable longevity , but the presence of Nicolae 's mother-in-law in her late nineties was evidence that Elena Ceauşescu could expect to live well into the twenty-first century — and she certainly had plans to be in charge then too . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 20 | I used to live here in the old days , before my mother left , then my father died . |
| 21 | From the early 1200s William de Mouthecombe was lord of the manor , and his descendants continued to live here until the fifteenth century , when Margerie Mouthecombe , the last of the line , married Richard Sacheville , a very nasty man who in 1431 caused his neighbours , including Foretescues , Combes , Prideaux and Treebys , to attack Mothecombe with ‘ swerdis and bokelers , bowesy-bente , arrewes and daggers … |
| 22 | If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males . |
| 23 | Many of the smaller farmers continued to live therefore in the ancestral homestead on the village street , but carried out no repairs to it and gradually allowed it to decay . |
| 24 | Whether the owners of large or small estates , noblemen were members of a caste which was expected to live nobly with a certain liberality and panache ( ‘ vivre noblement ’ ) as befitted their tank . |