Example sentences of "of live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maternal anxiety is an appropriate response to the experience of living with a crying baby — but what physiological mechanism exists to explain the notion that anxiety causes colic ? |
| 5 | They need to understand the importance of the regular drug treatment , and they need to be supported in their efforts to deal with their own guilt , depression and daily stress of living with a person with schizophrenia . |
| 6 | First , we suggested that the occurrence of disability as a significant event in an individual 's life is only a starting-point for understanding the practical and personal consequences of living with a disability . |
| 7 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 8 | The fantasy of living with a woman in a state of openness and trust . |
| 9 | In the light of these observations , the act of living with a prostitute takes on another meaning . |
| 10 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 11 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |
| 12 | People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump . |
| 13 | Perhaps he did n't even realize what the implication of living in a rectory was . |
| 14 | I ca n't see the point of living in a mausoleum , just because it 's ‘ in period ’ . ’ |
| 15 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Think of living in a yacht as living in a caravan , eating out in the evenings . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have always dreamt of living in a castle . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | That 's the power of living in a democracy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ARTS council chairman Lord Palumbo faces eviction after being accused of living in a house illegally for six years . |
| 30 | 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 . |