Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fashion of the philosophers John Locke and David Hume one may say that one can not live as a total sceptic or one would achieve nothing . |
| 2 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 3 | Old man are you gon na live for a long time ? |
| 4 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 5 | The Woolwich and Cheltenham & Gloucester societies believe they can live with a 1-point rise or less . |
| 6 | I did not like the accusation of naïvety , preferring to believe that I was an honest man who found it hard to imagine how other people could live with a guilty conscience . |
| 7 | Marc Wadsworth , the black sections national organiser , said : ‘ We can live with a long struggle . |
| 8 | She will work with the Allied Screening Commission which is part of M.I.9 , and she will live with a charming couple , Signor and Signora Banterle . |
| 9 | They occur in many other lakes and rivers in Africa , but have never lived in the present Victoria ( though they did live in a prehistoric lake on the same site ) . |
| 10 | It means I can live in a good part of town in my own apartment . |
| 11 | An example is ‘ Would you rather not live in a non-fluoridated water area ? ’ . |
| 12 | You may live in a modern house where the style of bare floorboards is acceptable , but nothing beats good carpeting as insulation . |
| 13 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 14 | Only so many people can actually live in a real farmhouse or Elizabethan manor . |
| 15 | People do live in a certain fear of him and anxiety about how he 'll respond to anything done up there in Inniskeen . |
| 16 | Other plant ecologists saw physiology as their starting point , because it was the interaction between the plant as a living organism and its environment that determined whether or not a particular species could live in a certain area . |
| 17 | Whatever happened to Shurll , Jane wondered — did she go and live in a hollow tree ? |
| 18 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 19 | But we do n't live in a perfect world . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd live in a small cottage in Wales ? ’ she gasped . |
| 21 | Thus a modern Inuit village family may live in a small settlement of insulated timber housing , spend part of their time working for wages in government or private company employ , hunt caribou or seals for meat , and tend traplines for extra money to buy consumer goods from the store or mail-order catalogue . |
| 22 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 23 | erm I think we do live in a patriarchal society where , even if , for example , some of the single carers that I interviewed — three were men out of eight or nine — and they had an equally hard deal , because the rules are stacked against people caring for dependents , whether the people who care are men or are women . |
| 24 | But once he 's grown enough spines it 's hoped he can live in a walled garden — a real case of wash and go . |
| 25 | ‘ You must live in a funny world , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The idea that the chronically ill could live in a domestic setting with little professional nursing input was new . |
| 27 | If , he reasoned , you could n't live in a fashionable district with a BMW in a parking spot you had paid for , then you might as well not live at all . |
| 28 | Even if individuals do live in a nuclear family group it does not necessarily mean that their closest emotional ties are to be found there . |
| 29 | Humboldt showed them how to tabulate data to reveal the effect of the environment in determining what kind of species could live in a particular area . |
| 30 | Consequently , the court can not use what used to be called injunctions , either mandatory or prohibitory , to achieve that the child should live in a particular place . |