Example sentences of "[adj] living [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact that my boat was used in this smuggling attempt is going to take some living down . ’ |
| 2 | They are all living on somewhere in the world . |
| 3 | What makes this alarming is that we are all living longer and retiring earlier . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh yes we were all living there yes . |
| 6 | I think in a way we were all Ziggy Stardust and we were all living out this myth of Ziggy Stardust and treated him as if he was Ziggy Stardust . |
| 7 | All about Keswick he had noticed gangs of men building the giant reaches of drystone walls enclosing even the highest fell-land , the better to take advantage of grain prices in the war ; gangs of men working the woods , as charcoal-burners , swill-makers , coppice-workers , plain woodmen ; and , as here , men in the high mines — men spread all over the landscape , bondmen of industry , all living out near their workplace , turf huts and teepees scattered abroad , excluded from society throughout the week of their work and let into its comforts and pleasure only for a brief Saturday night escape . |
| 8 | ‘ London cows ’ , as Godwin observes , ‘ are , in many cases , kept in places where the poor brutes are not only destroyed themselves , but are made the cause of destruction to those living around . |
| 9 | The respite was not long , especially for those living not far from a seaport , and at the beginning of August there is another apprehensive entry : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | £10 for those living outside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As rapid economic and social change has worked its way through the countryside , however , the farm worker has found himself increasingly separated from the local village community both socially and — for those living out on the farms — geographically . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 20 | Tied cottagers ( farm workers ) and ‘ other tenants ’ , such as those living in winter-lets or caravans , are another important rural group discussed by Pahl . |
| 21 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 22 | ‘ This is good news for all those living in and around the Donaghadee Road who have had to revert to drinking bottled water , because the water was not fit to be drunk , ’ said Mr Lennon . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |