Example sentences of "living [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 6 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
| 11 | Living near a public course he was able to hit 200 balls a time . |
| 12 | I wake up like it , I go to bed like it , I 've got it all the time that I 'm living with a bloody nightmare , all the time . |
| 13 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 14 | Many young people take living with a current girl or boyfriend for granted . |
| 15 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 16 | She is living with a friendly family that she knows . |
| 17 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 18 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 19 | It was ludicrous : a customs officer living with a contraband child , spending half the day in a posture of specious confidence with one foot up on his inspection counter while he intimidated law-abiding passengers , and the other half knowing furtiveness and joy in smuggling around a small boy who was his own and licit son . |
| 20 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Also , you may have questions about testing , living with a positive diagnosis , or other issues to do with HIV and AIDS . |
| 22 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 23 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 24 | Well obviously the Kuwaitis erm living outside live under a hardship , are living under a tremendous amount of pressure . |
| 25 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 26 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 27 | Several weeks ago , Alida realised , and so , perhaps it was true and Isabel Lavender was living under a double strain , of fear of a demented sister , and of poverty . |
| 28 | I think it could happen in Britain , instead of this feeling of living under a grey blanket , which you somehow have when you 're back here . ’ |
| 29 | Sir Patrick said : ‘ There is in my belief , and in my experience , a profound desire amongst everyday people in Northern Ireland , right across the community , that the politicians should resume talks , because there is a recognition that there has to be a way of securing a less antagonist way of living in a divided society than we have at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | Space Biospheres Ventures , the private firm that built and runs Biosphere 2 , said the bionauts set a new world record for living in a closed system . |