Example sentences of "[prep] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after living in the house for nine years , some rooms need redecorating before the others have even been revamped for the first time . |
| 2 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 3 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 4 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 5 | Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine . |
| 6 | With particular emphasis on Dover and the surrounding area , known as Hellfire Corner , the book draws upon many first hand eyewitness accounts about living under the threat of bombs , land mines , shells , V-1s etc . |
| 7 | " By the way , Richard , when are you and Laura going to give up this nonsense about living in the middle of the Thames ? |
| 8 | The thing that Constance loved perhaps more than anything else about living in the south was the sun . |
| 9 | Now Northampton is twenty one miles from Bedford now we were never classed as living in the south when we lived there . |
| 10 | The social scientist gains an understanding of the meaning of action through living with the group which he wants to understand . |
| 11 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |
| 12 | HIDDEN IMMORALITY : Asian prostitute at a window in the red-light district of Balsall Heath , Birmingham , and ( inset ) Denise Seneviratne , producer of Living Off The Game |
| 13 | The coming out of the horse , following long discussions and meetings between doctors , nurses , patients and artists , was also an opportunity to denounce the miserable conditions of the Mental Hospital , the backwardness of the law in force , the nurses ' working conditions and , above all , the lack of real prospects for all those patients who were already capable of living outside the hospital . |
| 14 | Or were you thinking of living above the shop ? ’ |
| 15 | Atrocity stories — the shootings on the night of 2 May , Dupont 's sack of Cordoba , the pillage of soldiers in a country where the Napoleonic system of living on the country broke down — fed xenophobic hatred of the French as vandals and heretics . |
| 16 | By any standards , the insect body must be reckoned the most successful of all the solutions to the problems of living on the surface of the earth . |
| 17 | A notable group of recent feminist studies has focused on these women carers , bringing home in no uncertain measure the cost they pay , financially , in time , and emotionally : ‘ the claustrophobia , to the point of being suffocated , of living with the situation and , of course , the exhausting conflict of mixed emotions … the love , anger , frustration and guilt ’ . |
| 18 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 19 | A new approach to central area redevelopment was implied if the argument was accepted , that if we were to have any chance of living with the car , then a different type of city was needed . |
| 20 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 21 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 22 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 23 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 24 | I regard it as a way of living for the future , but what I feel I have learned so far is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 25 | It was beautiful and luxurious and designed both as status symbol and for ease of living for the emperor himself . |
| 26 | They had the edge , a way of living for the moment that she envied . |
| 27 | As we saw in chapter ten , the beatitudes of Jesus express the radicalism of living under the rule of God 's own character . |
| 28 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 29 | In part because of the geographic isolation of the borough , in part because of the necessity of living near the workplace , this population was rooted in the locality , producing a fierce sense of self identity and exclusion . |
| 30 | He also accused the IRA of living in the past . |