Example sentences of "[prep] living [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 2 | To live in one room after living in a country where houses are so open . |
| 3 | Now , after living in the house for nine years , some rooms need redecorating before the others have even been revamped for the first time . |
| 4 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 5 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 6 | Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Not at all , Meg , you 're the sanest person I know , except for living in a caravan on the edge of a cliff . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " By the way , Richard , when are you and Laura going to give up this nonsense about living in the middle of the Thames ? |
| 19 | The thing that Constance loved perhaps more than anything else about living in the south was the sun . |
| 20 | Now Northampton is twenty one miles from Bedford now we were never classed as living in the south when we lived there . |
| 21 | The social scientist gains an understanding of the meaning of action through living with the group which he wants to understand . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Or were you thinking of living above the shop ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 29 | The first is that the poverty of the farm worker is a thing of the past and that his position has improved considerably since the war-In absolute terms this is obviously true : the farm worker has , along with the rest of the population , steadily raised his standard of living as a result of successive wage increases . |
| 30 | Instead , conditioned by the nature of the family economy inherited from days of lower wage-dependency , they regarded earnings above those necessary for a customary material standard of living as a surplus which could be spent on leisure , festivities and luxuries . |