Example sentences of "live [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 2 | Herbert introduced me to his father , who lived the other side of London , in Hammersmith . |
| 3 | The landowners lived centrally , and around them , in concentric circles as it were , lived the working people . |
| 4 | Near the club entrance were two old houses and in one of these lived the local bird catcher . |
| 5 | Kelsang Tabkay draws in a breath of the still , fresh air : this is home , where the one-time environmentalist now lives the tranquil life of a Buddhist monk . |
| 6 | Despite the glamorous careers she creates for her clients , Sarah herself lives a low-key life in Battersea with her daughters Noelle , 13 , and 13-month-old Genevieve . |
| 7 | In the old mining village of Clara Vale , on the other side of the River Tyne from Wylam , lives a retired pit overman and rescue team worker , Mr J. C. Bell . |
| 8 | Condemned to death for a work of fiction , Rushdie still has round-the-clock protection , still lives a strange half-life of hide-outs , a hostage to hatred . |
| 9 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 11 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
| 12 | What does a miner who has irreparable damage to his lungs and lives a miserable life say when he reads of huge awards of damages in libel actions ? |
| 13 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 14 | I think he lives a fair bit away . ’ |
| 15 | She insists she lives a frugal life . |
| 16 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 17 | Oliver and Vanessa Dowding are not amateurs living the good life on a smallholding . |
| 18 | He wanted men to go on with living the good life . |
| 19 | He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate . |
| 20 | ‘ So , Blacklock still believes her to be married and living the good life ? |
| 21 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 22 | But secretly he spent much of his time and most of his clients ' money living the good life in America and Spain . |
| 23 | The career of paranoid psychotic attracts him , particularly as a way of coping with the inevitable consequence of his defiant style of living the criminal life . |
| 24 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 25 | Far from living the high life in Florida , he said the first six weeks after the raid were spent at an unidentified caravan site in Clacton . |
| 26 | Certain categories of staff have more chance of being offered accommodation , but this may be limited to single applicants living a reasonable distance from the parental home . |
| 27 | Zola had written : ‘ Yet these women are not bad , their errors and their disgrace are caused by the impossibility of living a straight life in the midst of the gossip and calumny of the Faubourgs . ’ |
| 28 | It became conventionally acceptable to bemoan the difficulties involved in living a cultivated existence during a period of poverty and dislocation , often expressed in terms of the inevitability of failure , the absurdity of effort , and the necessity of resignation . |
| 29 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 30 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |