Example sentences of "[prep] [be] living [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Chaillot was proud to be living close to Balzac 's house . |
| 2 | And if this list of disasters was n't clear enough evidence of our marital discord , I 'm sure that our body language — scrutinised by a knowing psychologist — would further reveal us to be living distant and quite separate lives . |
| 3 | Firstly , the illness tends to afflict the very old , the group most likely — largely through widowhood — to be living alone . |
| 4 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 5 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 6 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |
| 7 | They are three times more likely than older men to be living alone and only half as likely to have a spouse . |
| 8 | Thirdly , although some data is collected in relation to gender , it would be helpful to see some interpretation of statements like these : Although ‘ women were more likely to be living alone than men , there were a number of very elderly men living on their own and some of them caused their carers great concern ’ . |
| 9 | He seems to be living alone in one of the little houses in St Basil 's Terrace . ’ |
| 10 | Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood . |