Example sentences of "[conj] living [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second section of the Bill enacted other parts of the Wolfenden proposals by increasing the penalties liable for offences under the new law , such as loitering , soliciting , keeping or managing a brothel , or living on the earnings of prostitution , etc . |
| 2 | When millions around the world are being killed in war , dying from starvation or living below the poverty line ? |
| 3 | Our hair became longer and — in police terms — almost verged on the wild , confirming Hallpike , ( 1969 : 260 ) , who argued : ‘ the hypothesis I wish to advance in this article [ is ] that long hair is associated with being outside society and that the cutting of hair symbolizes re-entering society , or living under a particularly disciplinary regime within society … . |
| 4 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 5 | We learn that kings , presidents , and politicians have remained in office while either suffering behind a wall of secrecy from serious mental or physical illness or living under the influence of alcohol or drugs ( Hitler was addicted to cocaine , President Kennedy and Anthony Eden to large and frequent doses of amphetamines ) . |
| 6 | Personally , yes , this is n't er a policy view but living in the ar or living around the area , working in this area , I think the area could be improved , if s the flats were replaced by something which looked more attractive . |
| 7 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 8 | If we are in a happy partnership , whether married or living in a close relationship with a man or woman , retirement years are a time to look forward to and for doing things together . |
| 9 | Some groups appreciate a formal input in lecture form but other methods may be used e.g. asking participants to reflect on language they would need when holidaying or living in a country such as Greece or China , and then drawing out the theory from the discussion . |
| 10 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 11 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 12 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 13 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 14 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 15 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 16 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 17 | Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador . |
| 18 | He spent a week working alongside the farmer , mucking out cattle yards , feeding pigs , dipping sheep ; and living as a guest in his house . |
| 19 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 20 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 21 | Hard , smart , and living off the enterprise culture . |
| 22 | Fashanu was 20 in 1982 , and living with a girl . |
| 23 | One hundred and ten people infected with HIV reported 119 children , of whom 60 were dependent — that is , less than 16 years old and living with a parent . |
| 24 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 25 | Major and Mrs Burrows knew she was more than capable of weighing up the pros and cons , and living with the consequences . |
| 26 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 27 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 28 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 29 | His widow , Jane , spent her last years — until 1789 — at Chiswick , attending the parish church of St. Nicholas , and living on a pension from the Royal Academy , as requested by the King . |
| 30 | Being in the right place at the right time is all important in fishing , and living on the doorstep of the river gave me the advantage . |