Example sentences of "of living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or were you thinking of living above the shop ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is seen , for instance , in the denial to prostitutes of ‘ normal ’ family relations through the existence and increased harshness of the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution , which effectively stops them from living with a partner . |
| 8 | Clara Malraux offers an instructive assessment of Nizan 's psychology at this juncture : I think that Nizan was capable of living with the faults . |
| 9 | After five years of living with the natives and being offered the delicacy of a human thumb by cannibals — a feast which he gracefully declined — Terry was feeling homesick . |
| 10 | A notable group of recent feminist studies has focused on these women carers , bringing home in no uncertain measure the cost they pay , financially , in time , and emotionally : ‘ the claustrophobia , to the point of being suffocated , of living with the situation and , of course , the exhausting conflict of mixed emotions … the love , anger , frustration and guilt ’ . |
| 11 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 12 | A new approach to central area redevelopment was implied if the argument was accepted , that if we were to have any chance of living with the car , then a different type of city was needed . |
| 13 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 14 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 15 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 16 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 17 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 18 | I regard it as a way of living for the future , but what I feel I have learned so far is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | In fact , he would like more people to enjoy his level of popularity : ‘ If this is a cult of personality , then I should like all the poorly developed countries to enjoy such personalities capable of ensuring a rising standard of living for the people . ’ |
| 20 | It was beautiful and luxurious and designed both as status symbol and for ease of living for the emperor himself . |
| 21 | They had the edge , a way of living for the moment that she envied . |
| 22 | As we saw in chapter ten , the beatitudes of Jesus express the radicalism of living under the rule of God 's own character . |
| 23 | Vecchi was a small timer who earned some kind of living around the pool rooms . |
| 24 | In part because of the geographic isolation of the borough , in part because of the necessity of living near the workplace , this population was rooted in the locality , producing a fierce sense of self identity and exclusion . |
| 25 | He also accused the IRA of living in the past . |
| 26 | This system is based on the home salary and aims to ensure that the expatriate 's standard of living in the home country is maintained while he is working abroad . |
| 27 | He had overcome the main drawback of living in the country at Etten , since now he could associate with other artists , exchange views , be stimulated by the work and lives of others with whom he had something in common . |
| 28 | Having always liked the idea of living in the country , Geoff decided to go for a country-style kitchen . |
| 29 | The assumption behind the Bacon and Eltis thesis is that only industrial production can maintain and improve the standard of living in the country . |
| 30 | I had always dreamed of living in the country . |