Example sentences of "to live [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother . |
| 6 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |