Example sentences of "live on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 2 | But the car lived on as a classic . |
| 3 | The one whose house it was got taken away and the other one lived on in the house . |
| 4 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 5 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 6 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 7 | It lives on as a reality which the poet seeks to ‘ revive within ’ him , to reconstruct the state of mind of the removed passion of the last four lines and the effortless delight of the first two stanzas . |
| 8 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 9 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 10 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 11 | Its memory lives on by the lane in which it existed — Well Lane . |
| 12 | Real children stir to life the child that lives on in every parent . |
| 13 | ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub . |
| 14 | History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle . |
| 15 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 16 | Koresh lives on in the hearts of such Branch Davidians as survived . |
| 17 | Very little is known historically about Roland , but his fame lives on in the Chanson de Roland and legends that arose not long after his heroic death . |
| 18 | Orientalism lives on in the tourist 's gaze , says Nigel Whiteley |
| 19 | His name lives on in the Fairbairn Centre for the Deaf , Southampton , where he was a committee member for many years . |
| 20 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 21 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 22 | In front of me , the noble tradition lives on in the hands of a middle-aged commuter who , peering intently into his 101 Puzzles and Games for Boys , is joining up the dots incorrectly . |
| 23 | The union , he says , ‘ is an idea that lives on in the minds of our workers and their children ’ . |
| 24 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 25 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 26 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 27 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 28 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 29 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 30 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |