Example sentences of "to live [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 2 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 3 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | you know , you ai n't got nothing to live on at the end of the |
| 6 | As new services develop , health and social services should agree between them how they are going to allocate the responsibility for ensuring that every mentally disordered person has sufficient income to live on without the fear of poverty . |
| 7 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |
| 8 | It is important to set a figure for these advance payments which is realistic for the band to live on throughout the period of the contract . |
| 9 | ‘ What am I supposed to live on in the meantime ? ’ |
| 10 | In general , the fewer mental symptoms people experience and the less preoccupied they are with an internal abnormal world , the more able they are to live successfully in the community . |
| 11 | They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 12 | ‘ But you must promise to live somewhere in the world where nobody lives . |
| 13 | We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world . |
| 14 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 15 | To the romantic Jesus expresses his hunger and desire to live only by the words of God . |
| 16 | He wanted all writers to live obscurely in the provinces , ignore the natural affections of the heart , disdain reputation , and spend solitary , back-breaking hours reading obscure texts by the light of a tiring candle . |
| 17 | In Russia , people have had to build mikvas secretly , some of them have built a hidden one t-n their home , and have had to live constantly with the fear of being discovered by the KGB who would imprison them because of it . |
| 18 | " Tradition is most important , but it is not good to live entirely in the past . |
| 19 | I was indifferent to anything outside myself , and I was conscious of not being prepared to live entirely in the mind . |
| 20 | Tove Jansson 's inhabitants of Moomin Valley ( 1961 , p. 115 ) learn to live together in an atmosphere of Scandinavian hospitality : |
| 21 | In Johannesburg , in South Africa , the white-run council has voted to allow all races to live together in the city . |
| 22 | THE end of the royal marriage means that the couple will never again have to live together in the homes they grew to hate . |
| 23 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 24 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 25 | On a day-to-day social basis the kennel staff , all of whom have to live in at the training centre , interact closely with the students . |
| 26 | that people are are forced to live in the flats , and are forced to live in on the minimum |
| 27 | Lastly we must all learn how to protect the Earth from pollution , acid rain and the Greenhouse Effect if it is to remain a safe and healthy place to live in in the future — your future . |
| 28 | They may continue the case in order to gain more information ; they may make a supervision order , involving the child living at home but under regular supervision , or being sent to live elsewhere in the care of others ; or they may discharge the referral altogether . |
| 29 | I pray that the Church will learn to live adventurously on the frontier of faith . |
| 30 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |