I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood/brain/liver etc disorder
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She suffers from a rare brain disorder.
a donor heart/liver/kidney etc
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The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
a heart/liver/kidney etc donor
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There is a shortage of kidney donors.
a live appearance
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Troy's first live appearance was at last year's Montreux Jazz Festival.
a live band (= playing live music, not recorded music )
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There's a live band at the club on Saturday nights.
a live broadcast (= shown or heard as it is happening )
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a live television broadcast from Beijing
a live commentary (= given at the time the event is happening )
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He got into trouble for a remark he made during a live commentary of a football match.
a live concert (= that you watch as the performers play, rather than as a recording )
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a live concert in front of 500 fans
a live match (= shown on TV as it happens )
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There is a live match on TV every Wednesday evening.
a live performance (= one performed for people who are watching )
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This is the band’s first live performance since last year.
a living creature
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The early Greeks believed that plants were living creatures that felt pain and pleasure.
a living/dead cell
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Every living cell has a nucleus.
a living/surviving relative
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As far as she knew, she had no living relatives.
a living/waking nightmare (= something extremely bad that happens in your life )
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Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
a species lives somewhere (= used about animals )
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Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
affect...lives
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decisions which affect our lives
be living in the past (= think only about the past )
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You’ve got to stop living in the past.
be/live in fear of sth (= be always afraid of something )
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They were constantly in fear of an enemy attack.
be/live on social security (= be receiving money from the government )
brain/liver/nerve etc damage
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If you drink a lot of alcohol it can cause liver damage.
broadcast live
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The interview was broadcast live across Europe.
come up to/live up to sb's expectations (= be as good as someone hoped or expected )
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The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
cost of living
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Average wages have increased in line with the cost of living.
earn a living ( also earn your living ) (= earn the money you need to live )
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She started to earn a living by selling her jewellery on a market stall.
earn an honest living
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I’m just trying to earn an honest living .
get to/reach/live to a particular age
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One in three children die before they reach the age of 5.
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The number of people living to to the age of 80 has doubled in the last fifty years.
gracious living
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a magazine about gracious living
heart/liver/kidney disease
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He is being treated for kidney disease.
high/low standard of living
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a nation with a high standard of living
lead/live a double life
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Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman.
lead/live a solitary/frugal etc existence
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The women lead a miserable existence.
live a healthy/simple etc lifestyle
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I had enough money to live a lavish lifestyle.
live at home (= live with your parents )
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More people in their twenties are still living at home because housing is so expensive.
live comfortably
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She earns enough money to live comfortably .
live coverage (= broadcast at the same time as something is happening )
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There will be live coverage of the concert.
live entertainment (= performed while people watch, not recorded and watched later )
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There are three bars, all with live entertainment.
live in a flat
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Terry lived in a flat on the second floor.
live in a house
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They live in a really big house in Hampstead.
live in an apartment
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He lived in a small apartment on the third floor.
live in exile
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The Guatemalan writer has lived in exile in Mexico for over 40 years.
live in harmony
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The two friends continued to live in harmony.
live in luxury
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While some people live in luxury, most are struggling to find enough money to live on.
live in peace (with sb)
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I hope we can learn to live in peace.
live in poverty
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Half the world is living in poverty.
live in terror
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Everyone lived in terror of the religious police.
live music (= played by musicians on stage )
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Most of the bars have live music.
live on a farm
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She lives on a farm in Wiltshire.
live on...wits
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Alone and penniless, I was forced to live on my wits .
live television
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The accident was shown on live television.
live to a ripe old age
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Eat less and exercise more if you want to live to a ripe old age .
live to regret sth (= regret it in the future )
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If you don’t go, you may live to regret it.
live to see the day
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I never thought I’d live to see the day when women became priests.
live together
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A lot of people live together before getting married.
live transmission
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a live transmission of the tennis championship
live up to its reputation (= be as good as people say it is )
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New York certainly lived up to its reputation as an exciting city.
live up to your image (= be like the image you have presented of yourself )
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He has certainly lived up to his wild rock-star image.
live wire
live (= broadcast on TV or radio as it is happening )
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Tonight’s show is live from Wembley Stadium.
lived abroad
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I’ve never lived abroad before.
lived happily ever after (= used at the end of children’s stories to say that someone was happy for the rest of their life )
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So she married the prince, and they lived happily ever after .
lived in...fantasy world
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He lived in a fantasy world of his own, even as a small boy.
live/exist on a diet of sth
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The people lived mainly on a diet of fish.
liver sausage
lives alone
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She lives alone .
lives in dread of (= is continuously very afraid of )
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She lives in dread of the disease returning.
living bandage
living conditions
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Living conditions in the camp were dreadful.
living expenses (= money that you spend on rent, food, and things such as electricity, gas etc )
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She receives £80 a week, from which she must pay for all her living expenses.
living fossil
living hell
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These past few days have been a living hell .
living in digs
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He’s 42 and still living in digs .
living in the lap of luxury
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She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury .
living life to the full
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Ed believes in living life to the full .
living on the breadline
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a family living on the breadline
living organisms
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All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
living proof (= someone whose existence or experience proves something )
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She is living proof that stress need not necessarily be ageing.
living quarters
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The top floor provided living quarters for the kitchen staff.
living room
living standard
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Living standards have improved over the last century.
living standards ( also standard of living ) (= the level of comfort and the amount of money people have )
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Living standards at all income levels improved over that period.
living wage
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jobs that don’t even pay a living wage
living will
make a living (= earn the money she needs to live )
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She hopes to make a living from writing children’s books.
meet/live up to your ideals (= be as good as you think something should be )
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The regime is not living up to its supposed democratic ideals.
not a (living) soul (= no one )
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I promise I won’t tell a soul .
nowhere to go/live/sit etc
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I have no job and nowhere to live.
real live
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She had never seen a real live elephant before.
rebuild...lives (= live normally again after something bad has happened )
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We try to help them rebuild their lives .
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (= scare someone very much )
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The alarm scared the hell out of me.
standard of living
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a nation with a high standard of living
televised live
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The game was televised live on ABC.
the cost of living (= the amount you need to pay for food, clothes etc )
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People are complaining about the rising cost of living.
the living area (= the main room in a house, where people relax )
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The main living area was on the second floor.
transmitted live
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The US Open will be transmitted live via satellite.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
for ever
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As long as he could avoid this seasonal parasite, he would live forever .
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In an arena where most bands are denied even their 15 minutes of fame, Whyte wants to live forever .
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If anyone eats of this bread, they will live forever .
happily
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Yet traditionally football and business have not lived happily together.
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Later they had a son named Bastianelo, and the family lived happily ever after.
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We might even be able to buy back Mulberry Cottage and start all over again, living happily ever after.
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I would stay at home to raise them and live happily ever after.
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Gillian and Oliver must live happily ever after.
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With no one left to sabotage them, Snow White and the prince lived happily ever after.
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Undoubted crustaceans are found in rocks as old as Cambrian, at which time free-swimming species were living happily alongside the trilobites.
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She lives happily ever after, but guess what?
here
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Isn't he living here with me?
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After 1913, when Kendall and Flora gave up living here , nobody else lived here either.
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He wasn't born in Medmelton, but has lived here for more than twenty years.
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But my children may not be able to live here .
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I didn't know she lived here !
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Clark County has some 147, 500 residents, of whom about 70, 500 live here in Springfield.
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When I marry I can't live here .
long
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Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them.
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Still, it amounted to a massive subsidy to Wall Street from Congress. Long live motherhood and home ownership!
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Long live the students! Long live the people!
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Dunleavy is dead! Long live Dunne!
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Maclean, perhaps fortunately, did not live long enough to witness the collapse of the system he had built up.
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My Dad lived long enough to see me finish my training and qualify as a pilot.
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Female speaker I don't think I'd live long enough to see it mature.
now
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This was where she lived now .
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He now lived , it seemed, in a small village on the Yorkshire/Lincolnshire border.
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Q.. Will the monarchy survive the bunch now living in Buckingham Palace?
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The film and the television scripts were all sent for approval to Laurent de Brunhoff, who now lives in Connecticut.
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Now lives in a mansion down South.
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The couple now live in Manhattan, as do Ethan and his wife.
still
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I still live in the same place, but I try to vary my route, to fight laziness.
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Fabulously ancient, they live on in each of us; and they will still live on after we have passed away.
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Within twenty years there was a thriving industry in photographic prints, which included impressive landscapes, views and still lives .
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She still lived with Michael, still slept with him every night.
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Currently, all three remaining members of My Captains still live in Oxford.
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But they are still living organisms.
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We've broken up, I've been heartbroken through bizarre circumstances ... but I still live with that person.
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People walked and talked leisurely as if they were still living in a Confucian village.
there
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That was not the case when Denis Nilsen lived there .
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McLaren has lived there for 15 years.
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Such odd people upstairs and one has no control over who lives there .
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Generals and high-ranking officers live there .
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Those who choose to live there keep it undefiled.
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Howard and his sister lived there five years, enjoying the home, and have rented it for the past decade.
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Snobbish Rufus had not thought it possible for some one like that to live there , but why not, after all?
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My father and brother both lived there , and I looked at some land in both Vermont and Massachusetts.
together
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Jacqueline and Tommy lived together and drank and fought.
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The women, both 33, have been living together and sharing their lives for the last six years.
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We'd set on living together , and seeing how it worked out, with or without the baby.
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Oh, yes: They are ostensibly in love and living together .
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In the case of married persons living together , a spouse's interest is an indirect interest for this purpose.
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Overcrowding has weakened the cherished tradition of extended families living together .
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Otherwise, he'd never have expressed surprise at the news that he and Ixora were living together .
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They live together on a lushly beautiful dairy farm.
■ NOUN
age
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Yet the young are living in an age which over the past year has become dramatically uncertain.
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Through his teachings I hope to live to a great age .
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We're living in the Golden Age .
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She was born there, she lived there until age 21, and she has made nine documentary films about the country.
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She wanted to live with the foster parents she lived with at the age of two.
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They tell you we are living in a fast age .
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One important reason for optimism is that we now live in a disinflationary age .
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We live in an age of niche markets, in which customers have become accustomed to high quality and extensive choice.
area
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Residents living in the Jennyfields area of Harrogate were warned that the pills could prove harmful if taken by children.
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An estimated 70,000 Mormons live in the Bay Area .
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Does he agree that that policy would have a devastating impact on people who live in the country areas of Teignbridge?
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I have felt the same shock and outrage since I lived in the Lakeside area and watched the butchery of those trees.
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Gooseneck found out about it through a retired old retainer who lived in the area .
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His family will continue to live in the Bay Area , at least part of the year.
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Sixty percent of the artists in Merseyside live in the area , Joe tells me.
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His grandmother, who lives in the area , is ailing.
city
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Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
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A quarter of them live in New York City .
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These were people who lived in cities .
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An increasing proportion of the latter occupations seek to live beyond the cities and to commute back to them.
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Those of us who live in the City of Tucson want you wealthy welfare freeloaders off our backs.
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Growing numbers live in the city and travel outwards to work.
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We have lived mostly in cities for less than one thousand years.
country
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Does he agree that that policy would have a devastating impact on people who live in the country areas of Teignbridge?
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Many already have lived in several countries and are en route to several more.
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We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear.
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The final report argues that economic growth is crucial but often not sufficient to improve living standards in poor countries .
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But when you live in another country awhile, you lose your identity and you acquire one from the new country.
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She mostly lived in the country and she was rich.
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Still, they did feel that they lived in an important country , an actor in the world, not a victim.
fear
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We have to learn how to live with our own fear of madness, not of its captives.
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We all live with fear of crime in our homes and on our streets.
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It's a cliche to say people are living in fear , but sadly it's all too true in Larne.
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The town was a cluster of different quarters, all living in fear of massacre.
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The whole community has been living in fear for far too long, menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries.
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Adults went home, listened to quiet music, lived in disbelief and fear .
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Yet the survey shows that there is also no reason to live in fear .
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Would she have to live permanently with the fear that she had failed him?
home
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He was soon released and lived at home for another year, but there was no more playing.
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When people want to live at home and need some help, Medicare will not pay for it.
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She was happy to do the housework, and live at home with Tabby and me.
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And I decided to live at home as I started school.
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Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio Eight young couples are living in new homes thanks to a village's own housing scheme.
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Right now I live at home with my parents.
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He says he's glad because he lives in the home with his wife.
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At their new camp just a few miles from Polho, residents live in temporary homes with plastic sheeting for walls.
house
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I was to live in his house .
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He lives in a house that was built in 173o, and he collects photographs of his relatives.
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Women learn at an early age that most men do not like angry women living in the same house .
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When I was living in this house in 1938, the bathrooms were out in the hall.
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He is now on probation, living in a boarding house in another part of the town since his arrest.
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But I've lived in the same house with my daughter-in-law for four years.
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Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper, Derbys, with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter.
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Subsequently the son agrees that Mr X can live in the house on every Saturday for ten years.
land
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One-third of the world's human population lives on land that is liable to be inundated if the seas rise.
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Like Israelites after the exodus, the liberated slaves saw themselves free to live in the Promised Land .
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Artisans and traders living on this privileged land escaped the tax and other service duties of townsmen.
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The city of Nice, however, lived more from the land than from commerce.
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Some species manage to live on land in humid tropical forests, undulating on mucus that they secrete from their undersides.
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We do not live in such a land .
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Three-quarters of the population throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries lived by the land .
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To live with this view is not to live in the land of the rising sun.
life
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I must live a life that pleases him.
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It's better to keep trying to find love than to live a lonely life .
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Understand that your career should be living your life your way.
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That's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully.
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All of us have to escape the second time if we are to live our lives .
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Everybody should be free to live their lives as they wish.
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He was living a nice life .
peace
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I want you to live in peace .
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Voltaire was wrong, of course, about the degree to which the multitude would live in happiness and peace .
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We remember the past as something bitter, but we are going to create conditions for two communities to live in peace .
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You have to live in war and peace the same way.
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Or, more to the point, how they could live in peace and make money.
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Now Aladdin and his wife lived in peace , and when the old sultan died, Aladdin ruled.
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The other principle is the right of every state in the area to live in peace within secure and recognised borders.
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It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world.
place
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It's a strangely happy place to live in.
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When Susan and I visit her, we leave real fast: this is no place anyone should live in.
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Is it a good place to live ?
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I have essentially accessed another world, the place where my information lives .
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This makes it a more interesting place to live .
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There had never been anything glamorous about poverty in the places I had lived .
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In which case, the world would be that one bit nicer a place to live in.
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They had no place to live except on the pavements.
poverty
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Thus more than twice as many older women as older men live in poverty or on its margins.
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Between 1987 and 1992, the number of preschool children living in poverty increased from 5 to 6 million.
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Heaven help the villagers of Fungureme, still living in poverty alongside those cobalt deposits.
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More than one Washingtonian out of every four officially lives in poverty .
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Followers were prepared to live a life of poverty .
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Will these peoples continue to live in poverty and disease, or will they be brought up to modern standards of living?
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The population fell by 1 % last year, and 35 % of the people live below the national poverty line.
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These workers, full-time and part-time, and their family members, comprise an additional 30 million people living in poverty .
standard
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Furthermore, food prices could sharply distinguish the standard of living in one year from both the preceding one and the next.
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The 6 million people of Hong Kong have an obvious stake in maintaining their high standard of living .
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Local economists agree that the standard of living has fallen for most Romanianssince 1989.
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Being rich and enjoying a high standard of living was not the goal.
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Vacuum cleaners to ensure clean houses are praiseworthy and essential in our standard of living .
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A new way of consumption was enforced but it tended to sacrifice social economy so as to maintain artificial standards of living .
street
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She lives in a street near Russell Square.
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Page has hit proverbial rock bottom and has become a walking skeleton living on the streets .
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Maggie now recognized the voice of Faith Caskie who lived across the street .
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Of the group, two are married, one is gay, another is bisexual and another lives on the streets .
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Thousands live on the streets in gangs, surviving by begging and stealing.
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Sheffield lives across the street on a block where five of the six houses are occupied by family members.
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SHe'd lived on the street too long.
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Frank Morales, a neighborhood activist who lives across the street from the park, said Thursday at the dedication.
wife
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His wife Hannah lived on until 24 February 1778.
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Nicolas, 32, and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her.
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My first wife , Dinah, lived there.
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The fisherman and his wife still live there today.
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He and his wife Susie live there as tenants with their four children.
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My wife lives alone five days a week in a rural area in upstate New York.
woman
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In that gray place the three women lived , all gray themselves and withered as in extreme old age.
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Helen will outlive me - women live longer, it seems.
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I hope the colored woman who lived with Mrs Houghton will get me some.
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It would be wrong to conclude that it is simply because women live longer than men.
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In most societies women travel to live with their husbands, whereas men tend to remain close to their relatives.
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By contrast, only about 27 percent of women living alone had an occupational pension.
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Jack climbed the beanstalk, where he found a giant woman living in a castle.
world
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But we don't live in a perfect world .
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We now live in a world where labor is abundant compared to capital.
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It was, broadly speaking, the cultural outcome of modernity, the social experience of living in the modern world .
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For a while he was thinking that he could live in both worlds .
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It's important to preserve the old, but we live in the real world .
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By 1920 she had proved herself by earning a living in a difficult world , and by winning recognition in literary circles.
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We live in a world like the Gandavyuha - a place of transparent beauty.
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Such people live in a dead world , because a world without scale and levels of being is indeed dead.
years
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I've lived here nearly forty years , ever since I were first married.
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Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
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In reality, Yusuf was not even present and El Cid was to live for several more years .
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His wife joined the Poor Clares, and Conrad a hermitage, where he lived for many years .
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They had been living in it for years .
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Old thought: We lived for thousands of years without needing to make or take phone calls right this red hot second.
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Medicinal leeches in captivity can live for many years , but nobody in my local hospital knows precisely how long.
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He lived his remaining forty years in prayer and penitence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/we live in hope
a living death
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But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
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If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
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In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
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Life without hope is a living death.
a living hell
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My life has been a living hell since the attack.
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The last two and a half weeks have been a living hell.
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By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.
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If life in the South was corrupt and callous, in the North it was a living hell.
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It's just a living hell.
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Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.
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That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.
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The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
a living wage
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Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage ?
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Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
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They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage .
be (living) on easy street
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By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
be living in a fool's paradise
be the (very/living/spitting) image of sb
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All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her.
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And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
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But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.
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It was the image of returning once again to her empty maisonette in Ealing.
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My favorite is the image of an aproned cook in the rear of the open kitchen.
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Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
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This is the image of a successful couple.
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Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
be/live in a dream world
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If you think he'll change, you're living in a dream world.
be/live in cloud-cuckoo-land
be/live in each other's pockets
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
have nine lives
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The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.
high life/living
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As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
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But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
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But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
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He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
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He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
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His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
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It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
how the other half lives
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High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
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Ye never knew how the other half lives!
in the land of the living
in/within living memory
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After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.
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For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
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For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.
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It has doubled within living memory.
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It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.
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Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.
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The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.
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They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory.
live as man and wife
live in sin
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We were, after all, living in sin , and she was a devoted Catholic.
live off the fat of the land
live/lead/have the life of Riley
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I hear that all the older boys are driving big expensive cars and living the life of Riley.
living legend
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one of the living legends of rhythm and blues
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A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.
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Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.
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Many of parking's living legends were there.
living proof
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I'm living proof that people can make their dreams come true.
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Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted.
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The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.
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We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.
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And the living proof of that was Emily.
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He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.
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I will remember them as living proof that you can have too much of a good thing.
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I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.
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Indeed, she may well be living proof of it.
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She is living proof that a Democrat can be an honorable attorney general in a scandal-prone Democratic administration.
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She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.
long live sb/sth
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Long live the King!
sb is (living) on another planet/what planet is sb on?
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As a replacement for the Bluebird, the Primera is on another planet .
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People in the Antelope Valley worry that most people south of the mountains think that their valley is on another planet .
scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of sb
the cost of living
the elephant in the (living) room
the living
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Funeral needs are meant to address the needs of the living .
the living end
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To be in the ranks of the Foodie Fascists is, quite frankly, the living end .
think the world owes you a living
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At 40, you really start to live !
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Cats normally live for about twelve years.
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Do you like living in Tokyo?
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Donald is 30 years old, but he still lives at home.
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Elvis lives.
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Females live longer on average than males.
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How do you like living in the city again after so many years away from it?
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In 1905 Russell was living at 4 Ralston Street.
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Judy lives in that nice house on the corner.
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Many students prefer to live in during their first year of study.
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My father only lived for a few years after his heart attack.
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One of the victims has severe burns and is not expected to live .
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Our baby was in the intensive care unit, and we didn't know whether she would live or die.
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Plants can't live without water.
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St. Patrick probably lived in the 5th century.
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The baby was born with a serious heart defect and not expected to live .
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The will to live can be a vital factor in recovery.
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There were ten in the lifeboat, but only three lived to tell the tale.
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They lived abroad for several years but moved back when the children were school age.
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Those guys live like pigs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, it meant, because of the time it was given, having a bad headache if one wanted to live .
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For poor blacks, without money to move, living in an inner-city ghetto can mean days without seeing a white face.
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He defines locality as the space within which the larger part of most citizens' daily working and consuming lives is lived.
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How could I have been living here all my life and never really known it before?
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I lived in the Village and worked as a bookkeeper.
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Kim lives because I wish him to live.
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People living on the proposed site say their future is now more uncertain than ever.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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To do the Inlay shot required mixing film footage of the city with live action of the Doctor's party.
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I wanted live action , not polite conversation and chicken cordon bleu.
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In the past, to the horror of soccer purists, broadcasters have cut away from live action for commercial breaks.
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Stone age really, but for once it left all the live action in the shade.
album
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They took stock with a live album .
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But the rest of the album , unlike other live albums, was truly live.
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He went on to record a live album in 1966 with the blues legend Jimmy Witherspoon.
ammunition
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Policemen who were stoned by the crowd used live ammunition to disperse it, killing at least one person.
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He'd have been kicked out of here if it wasn't obvious that he'd actually used live ammunition .
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When arrested, he was found to be in possession of a small-calibre handgun and several rounds of live ammunition .
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One of the machine guns had live ammunition attached to it.
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As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd.
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Leipzigers feared live ammunition could be used.
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The army's next line of defence concerns the use of live ammunition .
animal
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He begins his career as a boy with gruesome, bloody experiments on live animals .
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In this way only those predators that attack live animals are affected when they ingest the substance contained in the neck device.
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Inspection begins with live animals and continues through slaughter and processing.
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Nevertheless, live animal experimentation is deeply embedded in the culture of contemporary biomedical science.
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Rather than outlaw the sale of live animals , we should require that all stores sell only live animals.
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Does he accept that the conditions in which live animals are exported must be humane?
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Rather than outlaw the sale of live animals , we should require that all stores sell only live animals.
audience
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By all means read some of these but there is no substitute for practising on a live audience .
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The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience , but agreed to do it.
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I like writing for live audiences with no agenda at all except to enjoy the work.
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We had a live audience of one, Richard's wife, Elizabeth Taylor.
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I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience , so that was a bit different.
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The programme was filmed in front of a live audience who had to clap, laugh and commiserate in all the appropriate places.
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The experience of watching some one lecture to a live audience is very different from being there yourself.
band
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The evening programme is aimed at teenagers and features a live band and soup kitchen.
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It features carnival rides, live bands and a dance pavilion along with booths for food, arts and crafts.
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They rose to the bait and decided they needed to prove a point, putting together their nine-piece Bootsy Collins-featuring live band .
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We wanted to use as few effects as possible and make it sound like a live band .
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The Wedding Present consolidated their reputation as a fine live band during 1988 but released a dearth of new material.
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Our Exmoor club is free to residents - and you can enjoy regular entertainment, discos and live bands .
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It has a great dance floor and discos and live bands are staged here regularly.
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I have a great live band , probably one of the best in the world.
birth
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In some areas of the Black Triangle, ten per-cent of all live births resulted in infants with crippling birth defects.
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The number of abortions performed each year was estimated at between 300,000 and 600,000, compared with 550,000 live births .
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The two variables are infant mortality per 1000 live births and gross national product per head.
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In 1928, 620,627 live births were recorded, compared with 950,782 in 1920.
broadcast
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The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
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As everyone who has watched the live broadcast remembers, El Comandante spoke for fifty-five minutes.
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Liberal politicians paraded through the studios, providing soundbites that were instantly fed into the live broadcasts .
concert
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This is a brilliant live concert by the group with Taylor, Fdsell and Mouzon.
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The final episode of the season will feature the group in a live concert .
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Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts .
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But this new version, taken from two live concerts in the Berlin Philharmonie, is special in several ways, too.
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Shabba, who earns £2 million a year from his raunchy live concerts , is now at No. 23 with Mr Loverman.
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Now you can't even rely on seeing a live performance at a live concert !
coverage
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Channel 4 took to their tents and sulked and even declined to accept live coverage while these rules remained in force.
entertainment
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There are three bars, with live entertainment in the trendy Platform 1 bar.
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This is one of the hottest destinations after work for savvy Downtowners, especially during special events when there is live entertainment .
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Lobster, fish and charcoal grilled steaks are the specialities, with live entertainment on offer most evenings.
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There will be live entertainment throughout the day and a wide range of Greenpeace merchandise will be on sale.
fish
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To actually see crabs scuttling across the floor and live sponges and even real live fish was astonishing.
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Spring always brings the real surprise, or rather horror, of the live fish retail industry.
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Please try to avoid feeding aggressive, predatory fish such as Piranha or Lionfish with other live fish.
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They feed on crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic insects, live fish and will scavenge on dead fish.
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At this point I had better cover some of the regulations regarding the transport of live fish around the world.
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A J Trevett and colleagues reported on two patients who developed acute respiratory obstruction from swallowing live fish .
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Many fish die but cyanide remains in live fish flesh only for a short period.
food
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The minute Dwarf Rasbora is a gem when maintained in soft acid water conditions and fed with suitably small live foods .
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These needs are admirably met by feeding Daphnia and other live foods .
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At this time, or soon after, they will require a larger live food as has been suggested before.
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The difficult time is immediately after metamorphosis, when they must have live food small enough to ingest.
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The proportion reaching adulthood, however, does not usually warrant attempting to raise them as larger live food for fish.
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These will maintain growth but at slower rates than with live food .
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Both fish prefer live foods , such as worms, insect larvae and small fish.
issue
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And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, which also tackles live issues in the area.
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It is very much a live issue and is progressing well.
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The relationship between the two ways of being was, however, always a live issue .
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That question can be left for a future occasion when it gives rise to a live issue .
music
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But this is not what live music is all about.
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They have live music six nights a week.
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There is a full entertainments programme during the high season and the hotel has a taverna with frequent live music .
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Area jazz clubs and coffeehouses offer live music while visitors can catch a movie at one of two main theater complexes.
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There is a games room where you can play pool or table-tennis, and live music is planned for the summer.
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Nor is it a dance club, even though there is a dance floor and occasionally, live music .
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There is live music on the terrace in high season.
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With that gesture began a long day of live music by every Stax artist to raise money for the Watts Summer Festival.
performance
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The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small.
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The live performance for me right now is about being present.
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Cash is a road addict whose finest moments are usually to be savoured in live performance .
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His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.
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These broadcasts don't need to be records because live performances on local radio can also count.
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In the Target Kids Scene, a small stage will provide live performances throughout the day.
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Now you can't even rely on seeing a live performance at a live concert!
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From this unique contraption, Hart will oversee the live performances .
radio
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They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed, including live radio coverage of the talks.
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The comments were made during a live radio debate from Polam Hall School, in Darlington.
set
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The band have tightened up their live set and feel they are playing their best music ever.
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The Metropolis in Saltcoats, for example, recently pulled off a major coup by securing a live set from Chaka Khan.
show
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Musical snobbery aside, their live show is a bit special.
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The live show , however, will be the Rockets all the way.
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It is very difficult to marry up the sale of a record with a live show .
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The 18 tracks of the new record are so dizzyingly dexterous, the live show should be nothing short of amazing.
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The following year, Bark Psychosis signed to Virgin and finally began to fulfil the promise of their live shows .
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Most rock acts tour in order to sell their latest album, and tailor their live show accordingly.
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What do the audience get from a live show ?
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Both singers have splashed out £100,000 on their live shows .
television
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For example, some types of multimedia applications will involve online systems which combine live television information with other digital data.
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This week, she gave her first live television interview since the fall.
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Two or more users can conduct video phone conversations and access live television pictures or send video mail, for instance.
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Of course, the in-coming signal does not have to be live television .
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Endless live television coverage has made the Eleven Cities Tour into a truly national event.
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There are also the regular live television relays of church services.
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His funeral at Grace Cathedral was broadcast on live television .
transmission
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Radio stations are planning live transmissions from midnight from the tiny graveyard where her body lies buried.
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Every month there is a live transmission of a church service.
wire
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Estes' forehead brushed the live wire .
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This college has come to life and advanced considerably under the direction of its very live wire Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens.
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Trading standards officers say the hot brush styler, made in the Far East has faulty insulation which has exposed live wires .
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Yet a kind of current emanated from her, she was like a live wire .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/we live in hope
a living wage
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Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage ?
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Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
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They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage .
be living in a fool's paradise
be the (very/living/spitting) image of sb
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All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her.
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And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
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But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.
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It was the image of returning once again to her empty maisonette in Ealing.
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My favorite is the image of an aproned cook in the rear of the open kitchen.
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Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
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This is the image of a successful couple.
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Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
be/live in a dream world
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If you think he'll change, you're living in a dream world.
be/live in cloud-cuckoo-land
be/live in each other's pockets
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
eke out a living/existence
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Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
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Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.
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Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.
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I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
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Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
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Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.
▪
She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
▪
The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
▪
The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
excuse me (for living)!
have nine lives
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The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.
how the other half lives
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High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
▪
Ye never knew how the other half lives!
in the land of the living
live as man and wife
live in sin
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We were, after all, living in sin , and she was a devoted Catholic.
live off the fat of the land
live/lead/have the life of Riley
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I hear that all the older boys are driving big expensive cars and living the life of Riley.
long live sb/sth
▪
Long live the King!
pardon me for breathing/living
sb is (living) on another planet/what planet is sb on?
▪
As a replacement for the Bluebird, the Primera is on another planet .
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People in the Antelope Valley worry that most people south of the mountains think that their valley is on another planet .
scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of sb
the cost of living
the elephant in the (living) room
the living
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Funeral needs are meant to address the needs of the living .
the living end
▪
To be in the ranks of the Foodie Fascists is, quite frankly, the living end .
think that the world owes you a living
think the world owes you a living
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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live ammunition
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They are campaigning against experiments on live animals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Experts figure it is more than 1, 000 years old and one of the largest live oaks in the United States.
▪
From this unique contraption, Hart will oversee the live performances.
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It features carnival rides, live bands and a dance pavilion along with booths for food, arts and crafts.
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Moreover, the live food that all fish are particularly fond of is worms.
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Styx A fun pub with entertainment ranging from disco and live music, to pianist and cabaret.
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The live performance for me right now is about being present.
III. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
broadcast
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When these pictures were broadcast live across international television screens, it was obvious that the issue was misogyny, not theology.
▪
With technology what it is, the promise was there for more live broadcast coverage than in the history of the Olympics.
▪
The session started early and finished late, and was broadcast live on all cable news channels.
go
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The new site was due to go live at the end of June and promised new personalisation features.
▪
Undeterred, Gandhi declared he would go live in a hut in the untouchable quarter.
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The new system went live earlier this year.
▪
Before you rush to subscribe, however, it's only the phone arm of the service that has gone live .
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We're going live now to our reporter there, Gargy Patel.
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The service, CallNet0800, goes live on 1 November.
perform
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I saw Sade perform live for charity at the weekend.
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As well as her own projects, she has in recent years performed live and on record with her husband Wallace Roney.
play
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All Saints topped the chart with Pure Shores, closely followed by two artists who played live in Ireland last year.
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But when it comes time to play live the old equipment is ridiculous.
record
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All but a few of the tracks were recorded live , many at the legendary Roxy.
▪
This quartet session, recorded live at Birdland, has an often tumultuous intensity.
show
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Some one phoned up a pre-watershed live show and started telling a joke about putting suppositories up your bum.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/we live in hope
a living death
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But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
▪
If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
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In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
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Life without hope is a living death.
a living hell
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My life has been a living hell since the attack.
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The last two and a half weeks have been a living hell.
▪
By lunchtime, everyone would know, and they would make her life a living hell after that.
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If life in the South was corrupt and callous, in the North it was a living hell.
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It's just a living hell.
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Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.
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That first call had been the start of a campaign of intimidation that had transformed Polly's life into a living hell.
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The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
a living wage
▪
Do they feel women should remain in marriages because their jobs do not pay a living wage ?
▪
Does the example implicitly condone overtime working as a means by which a living wage is earned?
▪
They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage .
be (living) on easy street
▪
By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
be living in a fool's paradise
be the (very/living/spitting) image of sb
▪
All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her.
▪
And just lagging it slightly was the image of the posed dancer.
▪
But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man.
▪
It was the image of returning once again to her empty maisonette in Ealing.
▪
My favorite is the image of an aproned cook in the rear of the open kitchen.
▪
Pressing upon the rest of us is the image of all those dormant scars in the crust potentially surging to life.
▪
This is the image of a successful couple.
▪
Throughout the show's history, for instance, Cleese was the very image of pompous, impatient rectitude.
be/live in a dream world
▪
If you think he'll change, you're living in a dream world.
be/live in cloud-cuckoo-land
be/live in each other's pockets
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
eke out a living/existence
▪
Cliff's family worked in the cotton fields to eke out a meager living.
▪
Again, the choice was between following the work to the factory towns or eking out an existence by labouring.
▪
Finally came the bookshop where dear Mr Sneddles tried to eke out a living.
▪
I was tired of eking out an existence near poverty level on my meager assistantship.
▪
Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
▪
Most people still live in the hinterlands of the inhabited islands eking out a living, but poverty abounds.
▪
She continued to eke out a living based on the fading memories of her famous plunge.
▪
The elderly eke out a living on pensions averaging from $ 50 to $ 75 monthly.
▪
The river banks were frequently lined with curious onlookers who struggle to eke out an existence in this harsh environment.
excuse me (for living)!
have nine lives
▪
The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.
high life/living
▪
As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
▪
But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
▪
But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
▪
He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
▪
He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
▪
His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
▪
It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
how the other half lives
▪
High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
▪
Ye never knew how the other half lives!
in the land of the living
in/within living memory
▪
After that sweltering afternoon in May, we went through a period of epic heat, the hottest summer in living memory.
▪
For the first time in living memory a presidential candidate claimed the White House before his rival had conceded the race.
▪
For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.
▪
It has doubled within living memory.
▪
It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.
▪
Still, for a prime minister who enjoyed the longest honeymoon in living memory, these are unhappy days.
▪
The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.
▪
They are among hundreds of northeastern North Dakota farmers with crops damaged by the worst rain and rural flooding in living memory.
live as man and wife
live in sin
▪
We were, after all, living in sin , and she was a devoted Catholic.
live off the fat of the land
live/lead/have the life of Riley
▪
I hear that all the older boys are driving big expensive cars and living the life of Riley.
living legend
▪
one of the living legends of rhythm and blues
▪
A living legend passed away when Ferdinando Keast died in 1891, aged 87.
▪
Blue Mooney, a living legend in his own time.
▪
Many of parking's living legends were there.
living proof
▪
I'm living proof that people can make their dreams come true.
▪
Jordan is living proof that you don't have to conform to the music industry's standards in order to be accepted.
▪
The team is living proof of the old saying that it's not whom you play that counts, but when you play them.
▪
We know that English and French speakers can live together in Canada - Montreal is living proof of that.
▪
And the living proof of that was Emily.
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He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.
▪
I will remember them as living proof that you can have too much of a good thing.
▪
I would be-come the living proof of the strength of her womanhood.
▪
Indeed, she may well be living proof of it.
▪
She is living proof that a Democrat can be an honorable attorney general in a scandal-prone Democratic administration.
▪
She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.
long live sb/sth
▪
Long live the King!
pardon me for breathing/living
sb is (living) on another planet/what planet is sb on?
▪
As a replacement for the Bluebird, the Primera is on another planet .
▪
People in the Antelope Valley worry that most people south of the mountains think that their valley is on another planet .
scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of sb
the cost of living
the elephant in the (living) room
the living
▪
Funeral needs are meant to address the needs of the living .
the living end
▪
To be in the ranks of the Foodie Fascists is, quite frankly, the living end .
think that the world owes you a living
think the world owes you a living
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All Saints topped the chart with Pure Shores, closely followed by two artists who played live in Ireland last year.