Example sentences of "[noun sg] living [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know dad would n't particularly like a stranger living in . |
| 2 | ‘ An ordinary hardworking citizen living quietly in the Cabinet ’ had become ‘ an object of hatred ’ . |
| 3 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 4 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 5 | Neighbour of sufferer living alone , 2nd Interview |
| 6 | Sometimes there are significant factors that are affecting life at home , for example maternal grandmother living with them , difficult neighbours , a child living away from home . |
| 7 | H e most often appears as a ghostly mosquito who will suck the blood of any white child living nearby and use this life-force to resurrect the dead . |
| 8 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 9 | Now the truth of the matter was that Desimir had found Stoja and Stojane the very first day after he had left the king : a beautiful youth and girl living not far from the fairy 's mountain . |
| 10 | The proportion living only with their spouse has also increased , from 30 per cent in 1945 to 44 per cent in 1980 . |
| 11 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 12 | The increase in the number of elderly people , together with a rise in the proportion living alone , has boosted the number of small households , as too has the higher divorce rate . |
| 13 | Lansley 's analysis of the housing tenure of the poorest 10 per cent of households shows that the proportion who are owner-occupiers remained the same , i.e. 25 per cent during the period 1953–73 ; the proportion living in local authority accommodation increased from 13 per cent to 45 per cent , and the proportion living in privately rented and other accommodation was halved from 62 per cent to 31 per cent . |
| 14 | This decline in the proportion living in privately rented accommodation also resulted in an improvement in the living conditions of the poorest section of the community — though it made the housing situation of some groups even more difficult as the pool of the cheapest and poorest accommodation shrank . |
| 15 | In the summer we received a phone call from a lady living up on Davidstow , which is a level stretch of moorland below Roughtor and Brown Willy , the high points of Bodmin Moor . |
| 16 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 17 | He went to his old billet and the old lady living there , after welcoming him warmly , said ‘ You 've come for the instruments of course ’ . |
| 18 | An elderly parent living alone invariably has problems to cope with , though , in some area of life , and ideally the people to help them should be members of their own family ; people who know their character and understand their needs , those they do not have to make an effort to relate to and trust , and who can move around freely in their homes , to sort through the various ‘ pockets ’ of their anxiety more easily than any stranger can do . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , there was a whole community living here then , ’ Harry told us , ‘ but I suppose I 'm all that 's left . ’ |
| 20 | Elizabeth found the move to community living much more difficult . |
| 21 | Vice versa , the proportion of the professional group living in grossly under-occupied housing is twice as great . |
| 22 | Group living therefore has different functions in different species . |
| 23 | Fanon 's analysis of racism and ‘ negrophobia ’ , and his articulation of the predicament of the person of colour living in , or in relation to , white culture , is also instructive for understanding sexual discrimination , especially homophobia , and the predicament of the gay person living in , or in relation to , heterosexual culture . |
| 24 | One person living there has to be a Sally Ann person of some sort , but otherwise it 's just everyone with their own room but sharing kitchen and bathroom . |
| 25 | The continent owed nearly $400,000 million in 1985 — about $1,000 for every person living there . |
| 26 | Fanon 's analysis of racism and ‘ negrophobia ’ , and his articulation of the predicament of the person of colour living in , or in relation to , white culture , is also instructive for understanding sexual discrimination , especially homophobia , and the predicament of the gay person living in , or in relation to , heterosexual culture . |
| 27 | A disabled person living in physically unsuitable housing would therefore assume that there was no point in registering on the waiting list , unless they happened to fall into one of the categories mentioned . |
| 28 | For example , at any one time , 1 household in every 3 contains a dependent child , 1 in 5 consists of a person living alone , 1 in 4 is a childless married couple , 3 in 10 are married couples with dependent children , and 1 in 10 contains one or more people over retirement age . |
| 29 | Also , the proportion of households containing one person living alone increased between 1981 and 1991 from 22% to 26% , and the proportion of households containing only one adult and at least one child increased from 2% to 4% . |
| 30 | Person living alone |