Example sentences of "live [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One family lived off the produce of 50 goats whose milk was converted into a very pleasant soft cheese . |
| 2 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 3 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 4 | The most serious attacks occurred in the decade after 998 when the Norsemen set up winter quarters in what was to become their favourite location , the Isle of Wight , and ‘ lived off the land ’ by repeatedly plundering the south coast . |
| 5 | Economic and religious factors are therefore held to play important and complementary parts in the explanation of peasant unrest : for those who lived off the land , conditions were grim and unyielding , and Calvinism offered a way of life which might , among other things , free them from the burden of the tithe . |
| 6 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 7 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 8 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 9 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 10 | Prenzlauer Berg was one of the most deprived and crime-ridden areas of East Berlin , a haven for the criminals who lived off the poor and an ideal proving ground for the young officer . |
| 11 | I hitchhiked round Europe , lived off the smell of an oily rag , as they say . ’ |
| 12 | A Viking raid , and the passage of Frankish warriors who " lived off the land " , left similar trails . |
| 13 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 14 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 15 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 16 | Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco . |
| 17 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 18 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 19 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 20 | Both men lived through the Depression , but Fraser 's depressions were only indirectly linked with the hardships of people he knew . |
| 21 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 22 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 23 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 24 | She also lived through the appalling 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Shatila camps . |
| 25 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 26 | From the vibration of air , they lived through the eyes , |
| 27 | More than twenty years ago , the archivist Emmison tried to convey to teachers what he felt to be the special qualities of an original document : The original document is in a sense more real than any text book can hope to be ; for the writer , though he may have been misguided , biased or mistaken , at least lived through the events of which he speaks ; and whatever his shortcomings , he was in certain respects better informed about the times and conditions in which he lived than is the interpreter writing two or three hundred years afterwards . |
| 28 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 29 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 30 | People of all ages from small children to those who lived through the campaign came to the city for a week to remember . |