Example sentences of "of living [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 2 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 3 | Please try to understand : I 'm so tired of living with the dead . ’ |
| 4 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 5 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 6 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 7 | of living for the agricultural population , guarantee regular supplies of produce on the market , and ensure reasonable food prices for the consumer . |
| 8 | A high social price was paid in a lower standard of living for the industrial worker and the economic and social power of the Junker class . |
| 9 | As a result of the introduction of machines and the growth of markets , relatively unrestricted by government , the standard of living for the average British person — judged in terms of food , clothing , shelter , health , life expectancy , infant mortality , education and material possessions — increased on an unprecedented scale over these years . |
| 10 | In the first quarter of 1987 the discount rate was fixed at 61 per cent , but the cost of living for the full year increased by 120 per cent . |
| 11 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 12 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 13 | The dependence/independence continuum in the model of living serves as a reminder that all people experience change of dependence/independence status for the Activities of Living in the normal course of the lifespan . |
| 14 | On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world . |
| 15 | His prescriptions for a ‘ dignified and durable tourism ’ were : first , to limit the number of visitors and levy a $150–200 fee that would go directly into a conservation fund ; second , include conservation awareness as part of the visit ; third , improve the existing facilities rather than build new ; and fourth , work to improve the standard of living in the adjacent city of Siem Reap . |
| 16 | This argument was later extended with respect to the experience of living in the modern metropolis , which Simmel suggests provides for a massive intensification of stimulation and experience , but which threatens to overwhelm us as objective culture ( 1950 : 409–24 ) . |
| 17 | The distinctive feature of man 's mode of living in the modern age is his concentration into gigantic aggregations around which cluster lower centres and from which radiate the ideas and practices that we call civilization . |
| 18 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 19 | As to GATT , a trade war between America and Europe would be bad for people 's stand of living in the long run but it would n't have much direct effect on Courtaulds . |
| 20 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 21 | Under this heading the commitment to reduce disparities between the standards of living in the various countries and regions of the Community was given greater emphasis . |
| 22 | He could have boasted to world leaders of the model communist state he and his comrades have created , now widely recognised in the world , with happy contented people enjoying the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc . |
| 23 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 24 | While some members may have experienced a steady rise in their standard of living in the latter half of the period , others were in no position to benefit . |
| 25 | Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America . |
| 26 | The Bowie findings were by no means conclusive , but they were yet another sign of the hidden dangers of living in the nuclear shadow . |
| 27 | By 1911 , Umberto Boccioni who was dead by 1916 , was grappling with the emotions of modern life ; the impact and anxieties of living in the stroboscopic uncertainties of a mechanised urban environment . |
| 28 | Such investigations indicate clearly and forcefully that poverty is still very much with us , and that any complacency about rising standards of living in the post-war period inevitably banishing poverty must be quickly dismissed . |
| 29 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 30 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |