Example sentences of "live for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 2 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 3 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 4 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 5 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 6 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 7 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 8 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 9 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 10 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 11 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 12 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 13 | of living for the agricultural population , guarantee regular supplies of produce on the market , and ensure reasonable food prices for the consumer . |
| 14 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 15 | As a result of the introduction of machines and the growth of markets , relatively unrestricted by government , the standard of living for the average British person — judged in terms of food , clothing , shelter , health , life expectancy , infant mortality , education and material possessions — increased on an unprecedented scale over these years . |
| 16 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 17 | In the first quarter of 1987 the discount rate was fixed at 61 per cent , but the cost of living for the full year increased by 120 per cent . |
| 18 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 19 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 20 | SCOTTISH teenagers are not amoral hedonists living for the next ecstasy tab . |
| 21 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 22 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 23 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 24 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 25 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 26 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 27 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 28 | Sickle cell anaemia follows a highly variable clinical course : some sufferers die in infancy from the disabling effects of recurrent crises or overwhelming infection , but others live for a normal lifespan . |
| 29 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars . |