Example sentences of "[prep] live in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To live in one room after living in a country where houses are so open . |
| 2 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 3 | ‘ Not at all , Meg , you 're the sanest person I know , except for living in a caravan on the edge of a cliff . |
| 4 | ‘ This is a programme that can make a difference by preparing our young people for living in a world of powerful images , words and ideas , ’ says Elizabeth Thoman , the Center 's Director . |
| 5 | Academician Dmitriy Likhachev , the highly-respected Chairman of the Russian International Culture Fund said : ‘ If such a policy towards culture continues , I will have to apply for citizenship in a foreign country , because it is not worth living in a country whose government has an attitude to culture like ours . |
| 6 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 7 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 8 | Perhaps he did n't even realize what the implication of living in a rectory was . |
| 9 | I ca n't see the point of living in a mausoleum , just because it 's ‘ in period ’ . ’ |
| 10 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 11 | I was excited about the prospect of leaving this area and the boredom of living in a hole in the ground since 6th June ; at last we shall be able to stretch our legs . |
| 12 | Between ourselves , I sometimes find myself struggling with the reality of living in a Church which patently does not live out the implications of all this . |
| 13 | Think of living in a yacht as living in a caravan , eating out in the evenings . |
| 14 | Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ? |
| 15 | The prime minister dares — dares — to talk about unorthodox styles of living in a society that actually penalises motherhood , so much so that virtually the only women who 'll take it up are those capable of nothing else ! |
| 16 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 17 | The family is a central institution of modern British society , at least in the sense that almost everybody has had experience of living in a family at some time in their lives . |
| 18 | We thank you , Lord , that you are in control of our households ; that Jesus knew the joys and sadnesses of living in a family and in a community of people and families in the same street and town . |
| 19 | Pupils are encouraged to develop an ability to work independently , to use a wide range of modern equipment , to use resources , to make decisions and exercise judgement and to become aware of the complexities of living in a consumer society . |
| 20 | I have always dreamt of living in a castle . |
| 21 | It follows that ‘ To teach the value of living in a democracy is therefore , by implication , to raise the issue of whether the society in which we actually live is democratic or not . ’ |
| 22 | That 's the power of living in a democracy . |
| 23 | Mr Keith Holloway was commenting on the case of teenager Lee Kennedy , who was found a bed and breakfast place after months of living in a garden shed . |
| 24 | ARTS council chairman Lord Palumbo faces eviction after being accused of living in a house illegally for six years . |
| 25 | She had her bath , which seemed to help , washing away her sorrows as well as the accumulated scum of living in a house where , for a female , baths were difficult — she remembered Dr Neil standing in the outhouse in the yard , pouring water over himself , the water running beneath the short door — all that she could see of him being his head and his bare feet . |
| 26 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 27 | It was acutely boring , like living in a morgue . |
| 28 | The thought of living in a mews cottage had been one of her daydreams , like living in a penthouse . |
| 29 | It 's like living in a chapel of rest . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Being a ship 's doctor is pretty much like living in a village or any small community . |