Example sentences of "[adj] living [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | What makes this alarming is that we are all living longer and retiring earlier . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Oh yes we were all living there yes . |
4 | The argument put forward by the lowlanders , that they were being flooded out by water sent down to them by those living higher up the hill , was naturally resisted by the latter . |
5 | £10 for those living outside . |
6 | There were several species , most were about the size of those living today but with the dragonflies as with millipedes and other groups that have pioneered a new environment , the absence of competition allowed some early forms to develop to an enormous size , and dragonflies eventually appeared with a wingspan of 70 centimetres , the largest insects ever to exist . |
7 | A campaign by Stirling University students association — while officially non-political — to persuade those living elsewhere in Britain to register for a postal vote , has been a big success . |
8 | We know that in 1988/89 just over two million pensioners were receiving Income Support , but there are no figures for those living below or just above this poverty line . |
9 | The government recently spent £750,000 on publicity aimed at giving those living overseas a vote — 34,500 registered as a result , nearly £22 a vote . |
10 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
11 | As the Fabian Women 's Group ( FWG ) pointed out , contributory insurance was bound to reflect the existing economic position of women and divide them into those living as their husbands ’ dependants and those living as economically independent individuals . |
12 | In Scale 1 chapter nine Hilton says that the fullness of contemplative experience can be given to those in active life , though he adds the rider that they will not be able to make such full use of it as those living more sheltered lives as solitaries or in a contemplative order . |
13 | Many vulnerable elderly people , particularly those living alone are sustained by a network of friends , neighbours and more distant family calling briefly on a regular or irregular basis . |
14 | The household structure of this sample population had many similarities with that observed today : those living alone comprised 29. 8 per cent of the elderly population ( as against 33.3 per cent in the 1980 GHS ) , though the proportion living with children or other kin was higher — 34 per cent as against 18 per cent today . |
15 | The proportion of those living alone continues to climb until the 85-and-over age range , when the proportion living with others , either elderly people other than their spouse ( 11 per cent ) or younger people , often their sons and daughters or other kin ( 29 per cent ) , becomes important . |
16 | The odds ratio shows that this was the case even after taking into account the fact that those living alone tended to be more disabled than elderly married couples , and therefore in greater need of such help . |
17 | There are great differences in the contribution which statutory services make to supporting households which include elderly people : those living alone receive the most , and those in households with younger people the least . |
18 | Income for this group is very low , but receipt of statutory support-services is relatively great ; for example , those living alone receive five times more services than married couples . |
19 | Within the elderly population , it is the very old ( i.e. those aged over 80 ) , women , those living alone , those from manual occupations and the disabled who are most at risk of experiencing poverty in later life ( Victor 1989a ) . |
20 | Within the generally impoverished status of older people , women and especially lone women ( i.e. those living alone , including single , widowed , separated and divorced women ) are often particularly disadvantaged ( see Table 12.1 ) . |
21 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
22 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
23 | Thanks to the timely action of those living nearby — the Titfords probably among them — and the deployment of the town fire engines , the workshops themselves were saved . |
24 | For those living nearby it was a moment to celebrate . |
25 | For those living nearby the pollution is a tragedy . |
26 | But for those living nearby its the squadron 's contribution to the community that will be most missed . |
27 | For the moment , it seems unlikely that oilseed rape causes more frequent or more dangerous symptoms to those living nearby than do many other crops . |
28 | Yet , not being en route to anywhere , East Anglia tends to be overlooked by those living much beyond its boundaries . |
29 | Those living abroad or in other regions and unable to attend were contacted by post or telephone . |
30 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |