Example sentences of "[conj] living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 2 | When millions around the world are being killed in war , dying from starvation or living below the poverty line ? |
| 3 | We learn that kings , presidents , and politicians have remained in office while either suffering behind a wall of secrecy from serious mental or physical illness or living under the influence of alcohol or drugs ( Hitler was addicted to cocaine , President Kennedy and Anthony Eden to large and frequent doses of amphetamines ) . |
| 4 | Personally , yes , this is n't er a policy view but living in the ar or living around the area , working in this area , I think the area could be improved , if s the flats were replaced by something which looked more attractive . |
| 5 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 6 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 7 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 8 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 9 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 10 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 11 | Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador . |
| 12 | Hard , smart , and living off the enterprise culture . |
| 13 | Major and Mrs Burrows knew she was more than capable of weighing up the pros and cons , and living with the consequences . |
| 14 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 15 | Being in the right place at the right time is all important in fishing , and living on the doorstep of the river gave me the advantage . |
| 16 | What 's more , romance is alive and well and living in the dales . |
| 17 | You simply have to be 18 or over , and living in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Anyone considering buying a ‘ Fully Reconditioned ’ 2¼ diesel engine and living in the north may care to listen to my all too true story . |
| 19 | And living in the area with him . |
| 20 | and on that basis you believe that that would be , or do you believe that that would be adequate so that she could maintain and carry on and drive the family car and living in the house children |
| 21 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 22 | Sally-Anne , for thinking this she was Sally-Anne again , not McAllister , Dr Neil 's acolyte in childbirth , had never seriously considered such things before , but living among the East End poor she was beginning to ask questions not only about her own , previously pampered life , but about life in general , and the stunted lives of those around her in particular . |
| 23 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 24 | Nothing is sacred ; when the Princess of Wales bought a Mercedes in February he accused the Royals of ‘ showing contempt for British workers while living off the fat of the land ’ . |
| 25 | The possession of a car enables them to maintain social contacts with their friends elsewhere , and if necessary , to make use of urban amenities while living in the countryside . |
| 26 | For most of the 1970s while living in the Borders I was commuting to London by air for three nights a week to present late-night current affairs programmes — 24 Hours , Midweek , Tonight , Newsday . |
| 27 | In this district lived ‘ Michelagniolo Buonarruoti ’ and Benvenuto di Giovanni Cellini , while Vasari ‘ Giorgino d'Arezzo pictore ’ is recorded as living in the Santa Croce district . |
| 28 | Cultural marginality refers to a different set of values , lifestyle and cultural patterns from the urban environment , thus suggesting that migrants may still have rural attitudes and traditions though living in the town . |