Example sentences of "live a [adj] existence " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became conventionally acceptable to bemoan the difficulties involved in living a cultivated existence during a period of poverty and dislocation , often expressed in terms of the inevitability of failure , the absurdity of effort , and the necessity of resignation . |
| 2 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |
| 3 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 4 | Therefore , in the bleak aftermath of war , he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London . |
| 5 | Now Jackson lived a solitary existence . |
| 6 | The larvae live in kin groups and are aposematic , while the adults disperse to live a solitary existence and are cryptic . |
| 7 | Although most ant colonies live a settled existence in a fixed nest , there seems to be a successful living to be made by wandering in enormous pillaging armies . |
| 8 | As always , this winter most labourers will live a hand-to-mouth existence until the grapes are ready for thinning in late August . |
| 9 | The level of the basic retirement pension is such that those who rely on it must either live a frugal existence ( Holman , 1986 ) , take part time jobs for as long as possible to make ends meet or claim income support . |
| 10 | I 'm willing to pay the price for a love that brings out my hidden strengths , for without it I feel I will live a diminished existence , however problem-free . |
| 11 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |