Example sentences of "living [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We are not , in fact , living through a distinct coherent and progressing moral panic about AIDS . |
2 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
3 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
4 | Otherwise a very ‘ macho ’ man might feel embarrassed at having to say that he feels he is living as a fragile teenage girl . |
5 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
6 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
7 | The dementia sufferer will become increasingly forgetful , and will therefore have growing difficulty in living as a conventional , independent , social being . |
8 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
9 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
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 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
12 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
13 | People living near a new flats development in Sun Street , Darlington , complained to Darlington council about the noise and mess caused by builders . |
14 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
15 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
16 | I wake up like it , I go to bed like it , I 've got it all the time that I 'm living with a bloody nightmare , all the time . |
17 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
18 | Many young people take living with a current girl or boyfriend for granted . |
19 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
20 | She is living with a friendly family that she knows . |
21 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
22 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |
23 | It 's like living with a cantankerous old man ! |
24 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
25 | It was ludicrous : a customs officer living with a contraband child , spending half the day in a posture of specious confidence with one foot up on his inspection counter while he intimidated law-abiding passengers , and the other half knowing furtiveness and joy in smuggling around a small boy who was his own and licit son . |
26 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
27 | Also , you may have questions about testing , living with a positive diagnosis , or other issues to do with HIV and AIDS . |
28 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
29 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
30 | Well obviously the Kuwaitis erm living outside live under a hardship , are living under a tremendous amount of pressure . |