Example sentences of "living [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 2 | In 1934 , there were 8,600,000 families , about 73.5 per cent of the total number of families in Britain , living on less than £4 per week . |
| 3 | I have lived in many parts of America , and I can assure you all that Hawaii is as breathtaking as you imagine , that the charm of the Old South is living on in Charleston , and that colonial America will come alive in the small towns of New England , particularly in the autumn when , in the words of Henry James , the ‘ weather is like tinkling crystal and the colours like molten jewels . ’ |
| 4 | ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns . |
| 5 | The composer , with talcum powder-white hair and a young face , dying content in his bed , surrounded by adoring and grieving children , his music living on . |
| 6 | One Summer in particular visiting European skaters mainly from France and Germany outnumbered the English , with the German contingent actually living on or in the ramp . |
| 7 | So peaceful had the volcano been , in fact , that its fertile soils were extensively cultivated , vineyards flourished on favoured sunny slopes , and the people living on and around the volcano were enjoying the prosperity and security of the Roman empire at its height . |
| 8 | He enclosed the green that had been open to the villagers for years , and he bought up Hooper 's farm just to tack on his land , this land you 're living on . ’ |
| 9 | Some animals are solitary , living on personally defended territories where no other member of their species is permitted to enter . |
| 10 | For grandparents , a grandchild is a continuing dividend from their original investment of love , as well as a stake in the future : a part of them that will be living on , long after they are gone . |
| 11 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 12 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 13 | ‘ Hard living on since you 've been gone , there 'll always be a place for you in my space time . ’ |
| 14 | There were n't many fashionables living on or near Dartmoor and Horatia was constantly complaining about the isolation . |
| 15 | Many local caciques or large landowners expect to have sexual access to campesina women , particularly young girls , living on or near their estates . |
| 16 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 17 | They are all living on somewhere in the world . |
| 18 | An estimated 12.5 million adults and children are living on or just above income support level , according to DSS estimates . |
| 19 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |
| 20 | Living on very little . |
| 21 | Or , if living on , filled with petty , bitter memories , and a longing for the war they fought to end . |
| 22 | " Well , this boat you and the children are living on . |
| 23 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 24 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 25 | No , Abington Grove Aunty Evelyn think she was living on |
| 26 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 27 | Born in 1912 , Pollock was the youngest of five children of a poorish Irish/Scots Presbyterian family , living mostly in Arizona . |
| 28 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 29 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 30 | For the next 20 months the entire family will be living mostly under canvas during altitude acclimatisation in the Alps and in Canada . |