Example sentences of "[adv] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 2 | Another 17.93 per cent he found to be living in ‘ secondary ’ poverty , i.e. their income was above the minimum but Rowntree 's investigators described them as ‘ obviously living in a state of poverty , i.e. in obvious want and squalor ’ . |
| 3 | Enquire about the possibility of donated breast milk from a milk bank — you may be fortunate enough to live in an area where such a bank has been established . |
| 4 | If you are fortunate enough to live in an area where the local district health authority ( DHA ) has a positive and dynamic recruitment policy , then bridging the gap between jobs will be high on its list of priorities . |
| 5 | Each year , Bonfire Night was the highlight of early winter and I was fortunate enough to live within a quarter of a mile of The Greencroft , which became the mecca on November 5th for people from all parts of the City . |
| 6 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 7 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 8 | attendance allowances for members , I would move that er , a scheme be commenced from the first of April ninety-four , and that the wording attached to the paper , be altered in two respects , in place of the phrase is a person over sixty-nine years of age , the words is an elderly person , and more significantly at the end of paragraph four , and normally lives with a member as part of the member 's family and be able to be left at th , be unable to be left unsupervised , be added , And that er , power to delegate a director of financial to amend the rates of allowances from time to time rates of attendance allowance for members , and that the scheme be met from the overall member 's allowance to which we recently referring . |
| 9 | Stephen 's problem , in short , was that he was not living as a son but as a slave in bondage to fear . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 11 | After all , the exporters are not living in a vacuum : they rely on domestic producers for many of their materials , power , transport , and other services . |
| 12 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 13 | Anyway living in a flat you might have somebody downstairs that 'll beat you up . |
| 14 | But these are nothing to the disadvantages I see to just living with a man . |
| 15 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 16 | They do not live as a unit , together , but as two separate people whose lives converge briefly from time to time . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman can not live in a cocoon and overlook those facts . |
| 18 | A mother , after all , does not live in a vacuum , and all sorts of influences — the arrival of another child , new vocational interests , increasing maturity , and so forth — may well bring about subtle yet important changes in her relationship to the child . |
| 19 | Some children brought up in institutions are so damaged by these experiences that they can not live in a family where they have to respond to others ' feelings and may escape into work in an institutional setting . |
| 20 | ‘ We no longer live in a society which we can claim is founded on Christian belief , ’ said one , favouring instead an education which teaches children to accept people have fundamentally different beliefs which are neither wrong nor right . |
| 21 | The opposition can no longer live on a diet of anti-Thatcherism . |
| 22 | Nobody who has not lived in a dungeon could understand how absolute the silence down here is . |
| 23 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 24 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 25 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 26 | ‘ Your the biggest blasted dictator that ever lived in a home ! ’ ’ |
| 27 | Captain Phillips , who was divorced from Anne eight months ago , still lives in a cottage there . |
| 28 | Despite driving a £30,000 Mercedes — cars , as well as goals , are his obsession — he still lives in a mining village near Barnsley with his parents . |
| 29 | The communications are such that it 's like living in a village . |
| 30 | It 's like living in a dog 's kennel ! |