Example sentences of "[noun sg] make a living " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , STEPHEN DALY is now getting his own back on all the groups in the universe making a living as an NME hack , while JAMES KIRK is currently resident in PAUL QUINN 's new band . |
| 2 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 3 | He combined the practical side of his life , the need to make a living , with the desire to make a difference . ’ |
| 4 | It was the difference between a vast public enterprise , and a local farmer making a living as economically as he could . |
| 5 | Their ways had diverged at university — Angela Morgan had gone on to Oxford to read English , the fatherless Francesca , under more pressure to make a living , had gone to Cambridge to read law . |
| 6 | The travel particularly , but generally , it 's just a really good way making a living . |
| 7 | Vaughan loves to cook , but finds it a punishing way to make a living : ‘ People told me that there was no job harder than nursing , ’ recalls Vaughan , ‘ but they were wrong ! |
| 8 | My other music influence was Western Swing , which is really just white man 's blues , so I decided that the only way to make a living in France was to play that kind of music . |
| 9 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 10 | It 's a hard way to make a living . |
| 11 | It 's not a very secure way to make a living , but he has always liked puppets . |
| 12 | It is one of development : Bolivians need an alternative way to make a living . |
| 13 | It may seem an unlikely way to make a living … but Heather Gorringe is a worm farmer.She sells 20,000 worms a week from her farm in Herefordshire … and it seems people ca n't get enough of these wriggly creatures.They 're ideal for breaking down compost … and can even convert rubbish dumps into healthy agricultural land : |
| 14 | At that stage I was up to my sticky-out ears in Shetland 's music scene , and still harbouring a yearning to make a living from being a boring-but-sometimes-funny singer-songwriter . |
| 15 | Whilst no-one would wish to deny landowners the ability to make a living , it must be accepted that in many circumstances , such as Glenbrittle , more appropriate ( or even no ) development should take place . |
| 16 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 17 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 18 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 19 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |