Example sentences of "live [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sickle cell anaemia follows a highly variable clinical course : some sufferers die in infancy from the disabling effects of recurrent crises or overwhelming infection , but others live for a normal lifespan .
2 We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time .
3 ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars .
4 For feminists like me , who live through the political processes of women 's liberation , which turns sex inside out and reforms relationships with men , even if it does n't revolutionise them , talking to these young , single mothers proves that gains won in sexual relationships are not necessarily permanent or universal .
5 I 'm sure , but they 're many of them are concerned about their budget because they live off a fixed pension
6 This small herd of 40 or 50 animals , though enclosed , still has the freedom of 135ha of land and the animals are rarely in contact with humans ; they live as a wild herd and exhibit many interesting behaviour patterns , which have been studied in the past by famous artists and very recently by Cambridge zoologist Stephen Hall , who has published his observations .
7 This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase .
8 On many islands , though , the lists of species are enhanced by mobile visitors , which can also live elsewhere ; the Galapagos Islands , for example , in the Eastern Pacific , have one kind of penguin that lives nowhere else , but also have three kinds of boobie bird , plus frigate and tropic birds and brown pelicans , which live throughout the warm oceans .
9 Let us know your opinion , especially if you live near the Central Wales Line and are affected by this change .
10 At stake are not only the interests of potential motorway users and of persons whose land might be compulsorily acquired to provide a route for the motorway ; also involved are the inhabitants of villages and towns which will be relieved of through-traffic by the motorway ; British Rail may have an interest in inhibiting the development of alternative means for the transport of goods ; improved transport and communications facilities provided by the motorway may benefit some businesses at the expense of others ; and motorways have , of course , serious environmental effects which lovers of the countryside and people who live near the proposed route will be anxious to avoid .
11 It happens because , so far , each successive plan to dump or bury the stuff on the island has been scuppered by the opposition of those who live near the proposed site : opposition that takes , sometimes , splendidly Byzantine forms .
12 You live behind a green door ,
13 For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters .
14 A smaller proportion , 1 in 11 children under 16 , live with a natural mother and stepfather in a reconstituted family formed by cohabitation or remarriage .
15 We live with a double command : to love God , and to love other people too .
16 They live with a constant dread of the telephone ringing because they fear it will bring bad news .
17 The alternative is to defy the IMF and live with a massive deficit , at least until the second budget next December .
18 ‘ In city centre Belfast , ’ reported Lois Brown at Waterstones , ‘ we live with the continual threat , which necessitates regular searching of premises and constant vigilance .
19 Although we now live with the common people we do n't have their habits . ’
20 I think we live with the local authority set up as we have it .
21 As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition .
22 Erm , but you see the point I am making , the idea is that er religion appeals to people , because they , they see the in injustices of the world , erm , you know if er , er , injustice is an , is an inevitable , erm , experience , erm , some of us erm , might be inclined to think especially if you live under the British system of er criminal justice , and so if you ca n't get justice here , perhaps you can after death , because god is ultimately just , and no mistakes will be made in heaven , as it were .
23 It is a subject with which we are thoroughly familiar ; we see hundreds of them every day , and of course , we all live inside a human body .
24 It is a subject with which we are thoroughly familiar ; we see hundreds of them every day , and of course , we all live inside a human body .
25 This frontier was fixed in 1920 in order to form a distinct territory of Northern Ireland which contains all the areas where quite large numbers of Irish Protestants live alongside the Irish Catholics .
26 ‘ THE one thing I will never do is change my appearance and live in a blond wig in another country ’ — Author-in-hiding Salman Rushdie .
27 They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot .
28 If you live in a noisy area , it may also be helpful to play a tape of gentle music .
29 ‘ You live in a strange world .
30 er erm , well I mean we , we live in a strange world
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