Example sentences of "[be] live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 2 | erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different . |
| 3 | Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad , cut off from family and friends . |
| 4 | However , many people are living in abject poverty because of the poll tax . |
| 5 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 6 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 7 | Yeah but I agree totally with what , and the other lady has just said , but the other thing is is the amount of money that is spent when , you know , someone royal is coming for a visit because all of a sudden , you know , you have people in this country who are living in absolute poverty and yet because the royal sort of erm limousine is going past erm , for a few seconds where they stay all of a sudden the front of the house is painted ! |
| 8 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 9 | The youngsters are living in dire poverty in their home country . |
| 10 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 11 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 12 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 13 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 14 | For the last year Mr Holland and his girlfriend Teresa Brain have been living in temporary accomodation with their two young children . |
| 15 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 16 | What is more , it was also clear that , mechanically , such fins would be of real assistance out of water as in it , had the fish , like its ancient forebears , been living in shallow water and become stranded . |
| 17 | The Tories have been living in cloud-cuckoo land for the past 12 years . |
| 18 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 19 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 20 | What is more or less manageable on an average wage , like paying the TV licence or buying shoes , causes a major cash flow crisis when you 're living on supplementary benefit . |
| 21 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 22 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if their parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 23 | You 'll be living on fresh air soon if you 're not careful . ’ |
| 24 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 25 | Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well . |
| 26 | If your argument were to prevail , and to have prevailed , then mankind would still be living in primitive ignorance , habited in the skins of animals , for fear of new things . ’ |
| 27 | It may be full of happiness for those who are fortunate to have the right conditions at play in their lives , but there is no doubt how stretching it can be to live in close proximity to your relations . |
| 28 | If you are to live in rented accommodation or a hotel while finding somewhere more permanent to live in your new domicile , your employer may be willing to be responsible for those costs . |
| 29 | LAST Christmas the Smith family were living in temporary accommodation . |
| 30 | According to the press , his wife Linda and their child Jade were living in virtual poverty on £52 a week sickness benefit as Fleck squandered the £1,000 a week salary he was being paid in Norwich . |