Example sentences of "to live [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 2 | He might say to the doctor , ‘ I do not wish to live as a helpless paralytic . |
| 3 | This is the story then , not of personal development against a colourful political background but of what it really means to live as a white person of conscience in a country whose rulers decree that individuals should be ranked according to the colour of their skin . |
| 4 | To live as a white man on land a white man has given you . |
| 5 | I try to make excuses for people and I try to live as a Christian — but I still ca n't stop myself wishing that some day you 'll go through similar torments . |
| 6 | To live as a Christian today involves a personal on-going response to God 's call to have faith in Jesus |
| 7 | We used to live about a hundred yards away from the main park in Colchester . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the following morning I had nothing to do in particular , so I had a chance to live through a vague sense of hangover . |
| 9 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 10 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 11 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 12 | If a section of the population is held to live below a minimum economic standard because of the selfish aspirations of the rest of the community , this is an act of exploitation and a reason for communal guilt . |
| 13 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 14 | Not everybody wishes to live near a chemical factory . |
| 15 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you expect me to live like a bloody monk ? |
| 17 | As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year . |
| 18 | In Margaret 's opinion the marriage had been moderately happy until 3 weeks before the overdose when her husband suddenly left home and went to live with a close friend of hers . |
| 19 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 20 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 21 | We may have to learn to live with a greater demand for water and less recharge to aquifers . |
| 22 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
| 23 | Shortly after our stepfather died , our mother , Lydia , made her first leap across the Pacific to live with a Javanese guru in Jakarta , and brought back tales which inspired our first visits to Indonesia , as delegates to a Subud conference . |
| 24 | AFTER 112 pioneering days as the first man to live with a permanent artificial heart , Barney Mark , the Seattle dentist died last week , after a viral infection attacked his weakened body . |
| 25 | That need not necessarily be horrifying : Europe has shown that it is possible to live with a nuclear stand-off . |
| 26 | But John Smith has to live with a running sore in his own constituency , just beyond the depressed eastern fringe of Glasgow . |
| 27 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 28 | How to live with a united Germany |
| 29 | After all , I have had to live with a big bottom all my life ! |
| 30 | The truth is that we are now condemned to live with a dual consciousness . |