Example sentences of "living in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family were then living in the military camp at Harmoumou . |
| 2 | Mrs Sullen is a young gentlewoman , living in the country much against her will , and chafing against marriage to a drunken brute . |
| 3 | The comfort of having the big glass here at last , he wrote , of living in the shadow of its coldness , its emptiness . |
| 4 | I mean people who are living in the old common lodging houses and in government resettlement units , people living in squats and dingy bed-and-breakfast hotels , and families living cooped up with their relatives because there 's nowhere else for them to go . |
| 5 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 6 | And he 's still living in the World . |
| 7 | It welcomed the new ideas in La Fille Mal Gardée because the characters portrayed were familiar and were living in the farms and vineyards . |
| 8 | The events and circumstances surrounding such plots are difficult to control and organise because the characters are supposedly living in the real world . |
| 9 | So the choreographer can not make strong contrasts between the style usually used for the other-worldly spirits and that used for the characters living in the particular setting . |
| 10 | When last sighted , McCartney was living in the soft south , several hundred miles from his natal city . |
| 11 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 12 | Putting a negative bias on the gate simply frees up electrons living in the surface states , which promptly ( within 1ms ) undeplete the layer . |
| 13 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 14 | He could have boasted to world leaders of the model communist state he and his comrades have created , now widely recognised in the world , with happy contented people enjoying the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc . |
| 15 | They said everyone living in the building was accounted for . |
| 16 | It reads : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country neither the WRU , nor any of its member clubs , will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SARB . |
| 17 | Last night 's resolution from the WRU committee read : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country , neither the WRU nor any of its member clubs will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SA Rugby Board . |
| 18 | Part is earmarked for transfer to the impoverished peasant farmers living in the areas concerned . |
| 19 | ‘ The removal of through traffic , pedestrianisation , new public spaces , new mixed uses , living in the city , environmental quality , removal of subways : all these aspects of the Peoples ’ Plan are city council policies contained in the City Centre Strategy published in 1987 . ’ |
| 20 | Now , he is living in the UK : ‘ I like the weather here and the people are friendly — no revolvers . ’ |
| 21 | They like living in the dappled shade of taller trees . |
| 22 | Very enjoyable indeed , after the very rough fare that I had become used to living in the slit trench . |
| 23 | We are indeed living in the past , we who foolishly cry out that the past is dead … |
| 24 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 25 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 26 | It was higher still in what Crewe calls the ‘ new working class ’ — workers living in the south , owning their own homes , employed in the private sector and not in trade unions . |
| 27 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 28 | Living in the conditions I have described can cause the strongest personalities to sink into depression . |
| 29 | Living in the moment , she drank her milk and began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist . |
| 30 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |