Example sentences of "living abroad " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Justice Department admitted yesterday that it had granted the FBI authority to ‘ override ’ international law in order to seize fugitives from US justice living abroad without first obtaining the consent of the country where they were sheltering . |
| 2 | She is an invalid , and children are living abroad . |
| 3 | What is more , people who move to the other side of the world can continue to vote for the Labour Party in UK elections : recent Tory legislation allows people living abroad to vote in elections back home . |
| 4 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 5 | MORE THAN two million Britons living abroad have not taken the opportunity to vote in this election . |
| 6 | About a third of the estimated six million Britons living abroad are believed to qualify under a 1989 amendment to the 1985 Representation of the People Act which allows them to register as proxy voters . |
| 7 | People always ask , ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ when someone has been living abroad . |
| 8 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 9 | Living abroad would naturally influence young scholars , as in the case of their nineteenth-century predecessors , causing further disillusionment with the political order back home . |
| 10 | Other problems can arise with how the employee 's spouse will cope with living abroad and what the spouse 's employment prospects will be . |
| 11 | If the selection decision is wrong or the selection process badly handled , the employee , or his spouse or family , may be unable to cope with living abroad and have to return to the UK . |
| 12 | One old stand-by is remittances , the money sent home by Greeks living abroad . |
| 13 | In 1979 , it was estimated that some 24.8% of all qualified doctors were living abroad . |
| 14 | English law does not erect a ‘ ring fence ’ to exclude creditors living abroad . |
| 15 | Everything is covered ; living abroad and basic safety , handling ropes , starting and stopping the engine , lifting and dropping anchors , tying to and leaving the quayside . |
| 16 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 17 | The number of alumni living abroad is also staggering and it looks likely that more Napier groups could be set up around the globe . |
| 18 | Foreigners ( especially businesspeople ) were to get visas more quickly and the 150,000 Soviet citizens living abroad would no longer need permission to travel home . |
| 19 | President Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 15 revoking decrees adopted between 1966 and 1988 which had deprived " a number of persons now living abroad " of their Soviet citizenship . |
| 20 | All Armenians living abroad had the right to citizenship . |
| 21 | About 260,000 people living abroad were eligible . |
| 22 | The totals excluded the expected several hundred votes of Beninese living abroad , and the count in the northern town of Parakou , where 43,000 people had been registered to vote . |
| 23 | In May the Colorado delegates in the Assembly had defeated opposition moves to allow hundreds of thousands of Paraguayans living abroad the right to vote . |
| 24 | The congress represented ethnic Hungarians throughout the world — Hungary 's 10,000,000 Hungarians as well as some 5,000,000 ethnic Hungarians living abroad , in particular the sizeable minorities in the neighbouring regions of Transylvania ( Romania ) , Slovakia , and Vojvodina ( Serbia ) . |
| 25 | Those living abroad or in other regions and unable to attend were contacted by post or telephone . |
| 26 | Foreign merchants were still to be permitted to enter the country , but Russian subjects were not to be allowed to leave and Russians living abroad were summoned home . |
| 27 | It 's bad enough for me , imagine living abroad . |
| 28 | On the one hand , she knew that , with Liz living abroad , she was the only person capable of coping with her father 's problems . |