Example sentences of "living a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The comment is irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle . |
| 7 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 8 | It also meant living a certain philosophy . |
| 9 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 10 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 11 | He fretted in bed he was used to doing things , living a practical life . |
| 12 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 13 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 14 | Holiness , sanctification , living of Godly life , living a pure life they 're not the criteria , they 're not , they 're not , God requires that of us , but they are not requirements for receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 16 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 17 | We can start living a normal life again now . ’ |
| 18 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 19 | But you ca n't stop that child from living a normal life . |
| 20 | I had neglected my friends , family , job , social life , virtually everything to do with living a normal life . |
| 21 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 22 | For both Myfanwy and Andrew O'Donnell — simply living a normal life is an achievement in itself — something which was recognised at today 's award ceremony in Westminster . |
| 23 | Laura 's father Les said : ‘ We are looking forward to getting back and living a normal life and having a great Christmas together as a family . ’ |
| 24 | He 'd got high blood pressure , he was n't in any pain he 's living a normal life . |
| 25 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 26 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
| 27 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 28 | A lonely , miserable wretch , living a furtive life in a shabby room somewhere , uncared for , unmourned , and it could have happened to her husband , to herself , Omi … the War could have done that , its implacable hand wiping out all human ties . |
| 29 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
| 30 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |