Example sentences of "not live [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fashion of the philosophers John Locke and David Hume one may say that one can not live as a total sceptic or one would achieve nothing . |
| 2 | An example is ‘ Would you rather not live in a non-fluoridated water area ? ’ . |
| 3 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 4 | The truth is that Blanche can not live in a realistic world . |
| 5 | Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others . |
| 6 | For children in the late twentieth century there is the added difficulty that they do not live in a spiritually-secure environment , almost certainly lacking the supportive family and community that was Saint Teresa 's world . |
| 7 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 8 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 9 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 10 | ‘ Been dead for years now , has Titch , do n't live to a grand old age as a rule , his sort , everything 's compressed , you see , and he lived a lot longer than they usually do . |
| 11 | But we do n't live in a perfect world . |
| 12 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 13 | If , he reasoned , you could n't live in a fashionable district with a BMW in a parking spot you had paid for , then you might as well not live at all . |