Example sentences of "living [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 3 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 4 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 5 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 6 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 7 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
| 8 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 9 | Tomlinson has rounded on the central London teaching hospitals as though they were dole-scroungers , living off the hard work of the rest of the NHS , providing nothing in return and remaining eternally ungrateful . |
| 10 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 11 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 12 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | of living for the agricultural population , guarantee regular supplies of produce on the market , and ensure reasonable food prices for the consumer . |
| 15 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | SCOTTISH teenagers are not amoral hedonists living for the next ecstasy tab . |
| 18 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 19 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 20 | If you 're the one living below the noisy flat , you have to think in terms of a suspended ceiling . |
| 21 | In 1985 , according to the State Planning Council ( SEGEPLAN ) , 86 per cent of families were living below the official poverty line and 55 per cent were extremely poor . |
| 22 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 23 | People living near a new flats development in Sun Street , Darlington , complained to Darlington council about the noise and mess caused by builders . |
| 24 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
| 25 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
| 26 | Bosses saw nothing wrong with flying the flag — and neither did anyone else living near the Roman Carriage car company in Winklebury . |
| 27 | But the decision has been welcomed by people living near the planned venue . |
| 28 | Six families living near the former Lambton Road , Middlesbrough , home of widower Thomas Pemberton , 64 , signed affidavits after asking the council to act . |
| 29 | Their report is the most comprehensive yet on the extraordinarily high incidence of leukaemia among children living near the nuclear plant . |
| 30 | Folk living near the social club at Uttoxeter , Staffs , claimed they could n't hear the telly for the strains of Danny Boy and On The Sunny Side of the Street . |