Example sentences of "live a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political violence alone claims an average of 10 lives a day . |
| 2 | Yet in public cinemas we , the customers , watch film in the shadowy company of an anonymous crowd , each one of whom , like us , lives a life of which cinemagoing is but a part . |
| 3 | Anne-Sophie , on the other hand , lives a life wracked by doubt because she can never decide whether a garment is dirty or not . |
| 4 | Thus the resident polar bears live on seals and fish , while the Arctic tern lives a life of permanent summer and almost perpetual daylight , migrating from pole to pole every year , to feed on small fish . |
| 5 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 6 | He was really nice when we met him , he lives a life of total pleasure . |
| 7 | She lives a life of constant anxiety ; over money , job security , and also of being caught by the authorities . |
| 8 | He works like a mule ( 1852 ) ; he lives a life which would kill three rhinos ( 1872 ) ; he works ‘ like XV oxen ’ ( 1878 ) ; though he advises Louise Colet to burrow away at her work like a mole ( 1853 ) . |
| 9 | A survey has revealed that pressure of work at Oxford university is making students lives a misery . |
| 10 | ‘ They are supposed to be doing a job of work to house people not making residents ’ lives a misery . ’ |
| 11 | He consequently lives a lie . |
| 12 | In the pond there lives a grass snake , which will emerge at some random point on the surface , and eat whichever frog is closest to it . |
| 13 | ‘ To the left , ’ the Cat said , ‘ lives a Hatter . |
| 14 | And to the right , lives a March Hare . |
| 15 | lives a poodle , topiaried , |
| 16 | Need has been variously defined , but in this study needs were deemed to be unmet if interventions were acceptable to the client and the following applied : ( a ) for activities of daily living a person was dependent on help from the carer and this dependence could be reversed by provision of an aid ; ( b ) for communication disorders there had not been an assessment by a speech therapist ; ( c ) for services ( day care , respite care ) a referral had not been made to the appropriate agency and subsequent referral proved successful ; and ( d ) for benefits the client or carer was unaware of eligibility for benefits , an application had not been made , and subsequent application was successful . |
| 17 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 18 | As well as admiring Modigliani 's talent , Zborowski found him a romantic figure , living a life he would have liked to lead . |
| 19 | We can simply summarize these ways as meditating on God 's word , living a life of prayer and praise , and growing in our love for God . |
| 20 | Living a life of prayer and praise |
| 21 | Its five books re-tell and overlap the ancient stories of how God created Man and after generations of wandering around living a life which makes Wild West movies look tame , there was captivity in Egypt and then liberation to the Promised Land . |
| 22 | It is fear that stops us from living a life of fulfilment . |
| 23 | Nevertheless among these peoples there are sometimes individuals , frequently sincere , who claim to have no belief in a ‘ god ’ of any kind , but who , notwithstanding this , will often be found to be living a life in accordance with at least some part of an organised religion , and doing so often quite unbeknown even to themselves . |
| 24 | We paid out on the life of Greg Martin — and it seems the bastard was n't dead at all but living a life of luxury in Australia . ’ |
| 25 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 26 | We are not awarded extra Brownie points in heaven for living a life full of suffering , nor for one which is dull and dreary . |
| 27 | Naming the first person I could think of , I answered St Francis — because he could have chosen to live a life of luxury and ease , but had in fact followed the principles of Christ in giving away all he owned and living a life of poverty . |
| 28 | The responsive hearer The person who , living a life of faith , obtains depth , according to his or her faith . |
| 29 | Thus questions about structure can raise deeper issues of phenomenology , whose contribution has been ‘ to show the ways in which ways of living a life work themselves into complex ways of thinking ’ . |
| 30 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |