Example sentences of "to live [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 2 | He might say to the doctor , ‘ I do not wish to live as a helpless paralytic . |
| 3 | This is the story then , not of personal development against a colourful political background but of what it really means to live as a white person of conscience in a country whose rulers decree that individuals should be ranked according to the colour of their skin . |
| 4 | To live as a white man on land a white man has given you . |
| 5 | We used to live about a hundred yards away from the main park in Colchester . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the following morning I had nothing to do in particular , so I had a chance to live through a vague sense of hangover . |
| 7 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 8 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 10 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 11 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 12 | Albert writes : ‘ The inescapable conclusion is that the two models of capitalism diverge on the fundamental question of whether to live for the present moment — and to hell with the consequences for future generations — or to plan for a better tomorrow , though it may require sacrifices today . |
| 13 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 14 | Not everybody wishes to live near a chemical factory . |
| 15 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 16 | So , too , do those people in towns who have the misfortune to live near the wrong warehouse . |
| 17 | ‘ Did you expect me to live like a bloody monk ? |
| 18 | In Margaret 's opinion the marriage had been moderately happy until 3 weeks before the overdose when her husband suddenly left home and went to live with a close friend of hers . |
| 19 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 20 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 21 | We may have to learn to live with a greater demand for water and less recharge to aquifers . |
| 22 | Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria . |
| 23 | Shortly after our stepfather died , our mother , Lydia , made her first leap across the Pacific to live with a Javanese guru in Jakarta , and brought back tales which inspired our first visits to Indonesia , as delegates to a Subud conference . |
| 24 | But John Smith has to live with a running sore in his own constituency , just beyond the depressed eastern fringe of Glasgow . |
| 25 | How to live with a united Germany |
| 26 | After all , I have had to live with a big bottom all my life ! |
| 27 | The truth is that we are now condemned to live with a dual consciousness . |
| 28 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |
| 29 | The husband left the matrimonial home in 1990 to live with the other woman . |
| 30 | Broadcasting Standards Council Broadcasters accept they have to live with the new watchdog . |