Example sentences of "living [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our fifth type must therefore be the traditionalist , for whom it is a pleasure to find the past living on in the present . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over half the severely disabled elderly are living only with the spouse and exactly half the spouses caring for an elderly disabled partner are men . |
| 4 | I asked whether they did not find it inconvenient , living so near the French border , not to speak French , but they said not . |
| 5 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 6 | I feel sorry only for Eugenie and Beatrice because they will suffer a great deal seeing their mother and father not living together under the same roof . ’ |
| 7 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 8 | Was there not , on the whole of Battersea Reach , a couple , married or unmarried , living together in the ordinary way ? |
| 9 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 10 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 11 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 12 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 13 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 14 | He said , ‘ The one who is contained feels himself living entirely within the confines of his marriage ; outside the marriage there exist no essential obligations and no binding interests . ’ |
| 15 | Being their son must have meant living constantly in the shadow of two brilliant luminaries . |
| 16 | Imagine a model person living upstream of the model mountains . |
| 17 | They wore camouflage uniform and , from the looks of them , had been living long in the jungle . |
| 18 | As chance would have it , there was a couple living just down the road from us who kept animals — anything from horses to chinchillas , including a few birds of prey . |
| 19 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 20 | Between 1919 and 1923 about 700,000 Germans living just inside the Polish border , in Poznania and the Corridor were forced to abandon their homes and trek west into the Reich . |
| 21 | However the children were less bullied , although Olivia , who till now had run about under her mother 's feet , received her first caning the day after her sixth birthday , having grown pert in the meantime , living away from the rest . |
| 22 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 23 | Living largely on the ground , it no longer needed a tail . |
| 24 | They had once been commuters themselves but they had waited so long for trains they had taken to living permanently in the tunnels , skulking in the darkness by day and emerging late at night to devour unwary travellers . |
| 25 | A questionnaire circulated by the Friends has identified one hundred and forty children living close to the school whose parents would wish nursery provision for them . |
| 26 | In the last few years , more and more teenagers have ended up living dangerously on the streets . |
| 27 | It revolves around a narrator ( never named ) who is living temporarily on the west coast . |
| 28 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 29 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 30 | Living up to the principles |