Example sentences of "living [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an extended family is living together at close quarters , even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion . |
| 2 | Herbert Cranko and his bride , Phyllis , were already living together at 6 Montpelier Walk , Knightsbridge . |
| 3 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 4 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 5 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 6 | For some the strain of living together without legal ties leads to considerable anguish . |
| 7 | In nearly every street in Whitechapel there was a Levy or a Cohen , an Abrahams , Moses or Grossman — sometimes living together in one area , sometimes striking out on their own . |
| 8 | None of us had ever been here before and we were all living together in one flat , which we called Pig Mansions , in Earls Court . |
| 9 | ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When you 're men and women living together in close quarters like that there is always going to be temptation . ’ |
| 11 | It is always dangerously easy to write superficially about human relationships , particularly this one of the mother and daughter living together in old age , picturing them enjoying endless winter evenings by the fire , with never a cross word , and long summer afternoons in a garden of roses , sitting in deckchairs on a lawn that never needs mowing . |
| 12 | Different cultures should be understood as different paths towards the same basic goal — that of living together in relative peace , in communion with one another and our environment . |
| 13 | Living together in physical union is marriage . |
| 14 | Because people are now living longer in developing countries — from 23 to 41 for average age expectancy since 1850 in India , and from 32 to 43 in Sri Lanka — it is more worthwhile for them to gain greater skills . |
| 15 | I 'm not aware we 've got people living physically on agricultural land at the moment , they are fields as far as I know . |
| 16 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 17 | LIVING up to great expectations should n't be a problem for Engine Alley . |
| 18 | Only by living up to Responsible Care and satisfying society 's continuously growing demands can the industry improve its image . |
| 19 | The industry thus managed to maintain its freedom on this central aspect of commercial policy making , but its competence in living up to this challenge left much to be desired . |
| 20 | Like many other colonials , the often devastating effects of the climate on local agriculture , and the inordinate expenses of living far from commercial centres had reduced him to impoverishment , but he was also finding little recompense from the government . |
| 21 | The legislature was condemned as unrepresentative , as an institution dominated by a minority of rural and small town based conservatives , usually from the South , out of touch with the needs of the majority , located largely outside the South and living mainly in urban areas . |
| 22 | Forest fruit-eaters living diurnally in small family parties usually with a single reproductive male . |
| 23 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 24 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 25 | Were it not for the fact that he and Cora-Beth were to continue living here at Blue Ash Farm with her father , he could n't even have afforded to get married . |
| 26 | ‘ It is just not practical to have 80 homeless people living here with one warden looking after them and it seems to us that the council have just shot into this without thinking . ’ |
| 27 | I am living here with Arab people in peace and I have some friends among them . |
| 28 | ‘ And I envy you for living here in these surroundings . ’ |
| 29 | My grandmother , right , had a back to back No listen , this is funny , she lived in a tenement in er which is n't there anymore actually just up by the river , up by the Angel , and there was nine people living there in two rooms and they had a lodger and the lodger , so they did have |
| 30 | A pair of golden eagles may defend a territory of up to 16 square miles , living there in splendid detachment from the remainder of their species . |