I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a living creature
▪ The early Greeks believed that plants were living creatures that felt pain and pleasure.
a living/dead cell
▪ Every living cell has a nucleus.
a living/surviving relative
▪ As far as she knew, she had no living relatives.
a living/waking nightmare (=something extremely bad that happens in your life)
▪ Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
be living in the past (=think only about the past)
▪ You’ve got to stop living in the past.
cost of living
▪ 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)
▪ She started to earn a living by selling her jewellery on a market stall.
earn an honest living
▪ I’m just trying to earn an honest living.
gracious living
▪ a magazine about gracious living
high/low standard of living
▪ a nation with a high standard of living
living bandage
living conditions
▪ Living conditions in the camp were dreadful.
living expenses (=money that you spend on rent, food, and things such as electricity, gas etc)
▪ She receives £80 a week, from which she must pay for all her living expenses.
living fossil
living hell
▪ These past few days have been a living hell.
living in digs
▪ He’s 42 and still living in digs.
living in the lap of luxury
▪ She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury.
living life to the full
▪ Ed believes in living life to the full.
living on the breadline
▪ a family living on the breadline
living organisms
▪ All living organisms have to adapt to changes in environmental conditions.
living proof (=someone whose existence or experience proves something)
▪ She is living proof that stress need not necessarily be ageing.
living quarters
▪ The top floor provided living quarters for the kitchen staff.
living room
living standard
▪ 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)
▪ Living standards at all income levels improved over that period.
living wage
▪ jobs that don’t even pay a living wage
living will
make a living (=earn the money she needs to live)
▪ She hopes to make a living from writing children’s books.
not a (living) soul (=no one)
▪ I promise I won’t tell a soul.
scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (=scare someone very much)
▪ The alarm scared the hell out of me.
standard of living
▪ a nation with a high standard of living
the cost of living (=the amount you need to pay for food, clothes etc)
▪ People are complaining about the rising cost of living.
the living area (=the main room in a house, where people relax)
▪ The main living area was on the second floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
now
▪ We therefore became aberrant policemen simply because what we were now living was not programmed by previous organizational knowledge and habit.
▪ Two other tame birds on the same farm have already produced chicks which are now living in this barn.
▪ The population in the north and east are now living in terrible conditions.
▪ The pulse was dragging him in, into that horrid rhythm, now dead, now living.
▪ But yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told that the pair were now living together as a family with their daughter.
▪ Does the Minister also accept that far too many people in such communities are now living in fear of violent crime?
still
▪ All these mammalian orders stem from small insectivorous animals that inhabited the forests while the dinosaurs were still living.
▪ He was certainly one of the only three still living.
▪ And he's still living in the World.
▪ The Quigleys were still living with us.
▪ Because Hanns was still living and working in Johannesburg, their collaboration had to be conducted largely by correspondence.
▪ Others, still living but insane, would be selected and flown up for further tests.
▪ Unless - unless at that time he was still living.
▪ I was still living with my parents, I didn't seem to be able to get away.
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ The only possible scope for early development is in association with its agricultural use, for example living accommodation for farm workers or owner-occupiers.
▪ The Census includes questions about living accommodation.
▪ Each apartment has basic, simple furnishings and a two-ring stove, living accommodation, shower room, and patio or terrace.
▪ They insisted upon coming out to Reine to inspect my living accommodation, and the person with whom I shared it.
▪ I hoped the simplicity of our living accommodation was not going to be a horrible disappointment to him.
▪ It is an ideal centre, with a synthetic track and weight-training facilities very close to the living accommodation.
▪ These will be sold or leased to trainers with living accommodation.
▪ The fortifications were slowly curtailed, and the living accommodation became more spacious and comfortable.
area
▪ As fewer homes today have a separate dining room, this month we're suggesting ways of linking dining and living areas.
▪ Fabrics have been used on the walls in all the living areas.
▪ She cradled the mug in her hands and looked around the living area.
▪ The kitchen Overlooking the back garden, this large room is divided into a kitchen and living area.
▪ There is also a slight risk of the foam emitting fumes into the living areas, especially in timber-frame houses.
▪ Separated from the main living area are a toilet, shower, and wash basin.
▪ The two-seat sofa in blue Damask in the living area provides a link between kitchen and living areas.
arrangement
▪ But I wish he'd civilize his living arrangements.
▪ While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.
▪ Also information about vocational functioning and living arrangements was gathered by interview.
▪ In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.
▪ Among the refugee communities, new forms of collective living arrangements have been organized.
▪ Separate living arrangements for the couple are under negotiation, according to a newspaper report.
cell
▪ Every living cell and every atom has a nucleus.
▪ The process of energy production in living cells is an example.
▪ Some meteorites betray traces of proteinoid globules, the precursors of living cells.
▪ Biophysics is certainly able to cast significant light on processes occurring within living cells.
▪ Every living cell, even a single bacterial cell, can be thought of as a gigantic chemical factory.
▪ Indeed, both gamma rays and X-rays can be extremely damaging to living cells.
▪ The main storage medium inside willow seeds, ants and all other living cells is not electronic but chemical.
▪ The tubules exude fluid when cut and contain living cells, as well as nerves.
creature
▪ Once again, however, there is a living creature that has a solution.
▪ The positive forms of living creatures express the internal pressure of their circulatory systems.
▪ The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures.
▪ And even though the little fellow stood stock still, his shadow heaved and twisted as some living creature writhing in unimaginable torment.
▪ Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors.
▪ This exercise depends on only one clue: you know that the clue word is some living creature.
▪ The same, of course, applies to all interactions between living creatures, including human to human.
▪ That all living creatures possess a capacity to learn is apparent from the way they find their way around an environment.
daylights
▪ If the kitchen had had a serving hatch, I could have scared the living daylights out of them.
▪ He is capable of rages near to those on-screen moments when he can scare the living daylights out of a cinema audience.
▪ There is only one way to attack: to try and run the living daylights out of the opposition.
death
▪ Life without hope is a living death.
▪ But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
▪ In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
▪ Jeeta's life would be living death and there was nowhere she could escape to.
▪ A living death, it had seemed to him and Jim, but maybe it hadn't been so bad.
▪ And you and I will both leave this house, this narrow stone hell, this house of living death.
▪ It's bloody living death, living boredom.
▪ If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
expenses
▪ They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.
▪ At present the county council pays his tuition fees and we pay his living expenses, which we can continue.
▪ But that money's for his work ... not for living expenses.
▪ Then there is an estimate of how much was required or expended for his own personal and living expenses.
▪ So after living expenses and charity there's not a lot left over.
hell
▪ It is as if the war, crisis, living hell or chaotic backwater can never be known and will never end.
▪ It's just a living hell.
▪ Serving in the Danuese battalions was a living hell.
▪ Tony Revell says it's living hell to work with, and I believe him.
▪ The brave heroes returned to an epidemic of influenza which all but carried off those who had survived a living hell.
life
▪ Then you start to think there's something crazy about living life only to lose it.
▪ But today is for living life to the full.
▪ It's just another struggle for air, for living life.
memory
▪ It has, after all, been the worst first year of any parliament in living memory.
▪ For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory.
▪ Within the living memory of the older inhabitants of Dornie, there have been radical changes affecting both these waterways.
▪ This dinner they planned must capture the living memory of every lucky guest.
▪ The country is in the depths of a recession, made worse by the worst drought in living memory.
▪ Within living memory, like mine for instance, it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U ....
▪ It was the most dramatic and outspoken resignation speech in living memory.
▪ Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils.
organism
▪ Genome: the genetic complement of a living organism.
▪ Such a condition also makes living organisms highly sensitive to their environment, reflecting the characteristics of mind and consciousness themselves.
▪ These have made it possible for scientists to manipulate more precisely the genetic make-up of living organisms.
▪ In this respect they share a property of living organisms.
▪ In common with Descartes, he visualized the universe in terms of clockwork rather than as a living organism.
▪ Further chemical reactions led to living organisms.
▪ It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints.
▪ You will investigate the features of living organisms.
proof
▪ And the living proof of that was Emily.
▪ He is living proof that if the famine doesn't get you, the bullets will.
▪ She is also living proof that stress and hard work need not necessarily be ageing.
▪ His family are for him living proof of them.
▪ Mr. Atkins My hon. Friend is living proof of his own contention.
▪ He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur.
▪ It was for Lesley Bale to be the living proof that there was a way through.
room
▪ Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
▪ Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.
▪ Do not throw rubbish on to an open fire in the living room.
▪ Does your living room face north or south?
▪ In panic she stumbled backwards, twisted round and tried to run into the living room.
▪ All living rooms need a mixture of light: background lighting; local light for working by; and decorative accent lighting.
▪ He currently works from his studio and workroom built in a large living room at home in Bethnal Green, East London.
▪ Downstairs she stepped past two sleeping bodies in the living room and closed the front door quietly behind her.
soul
▪ You mustn't tell a living soul what you just told me.
▪ Here they re-live the life of a pioneer in the wilderness, when the nearest living soul was 20 miles away.
▪ And that business about her obsession with him; she had never mentioned that to a living soul.
▪ No living soul appears in this desert of desolation, encompassed by appalling silence.
▪ Holly here's the only living soul I told.
space
▪ Second, it may need to make itself distinct from other species with which it shares its living space.
▪ Their works tended to be small-scale, mostly because they worked in cramped living spaces with scarce materials.
▪ The living space is excellent with plenty of height and room inside.
▪ Our clothes, living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world.
▪ It was believed that this area offered more opportunities for conversion into convenient living space.
▪ The new maisonettes have turned out to be the most unusual and attractive living spaces.
▪ An island unit provides worksurface space and divides the cooking area from the living space.
▪ Tokyo residents have to commute huge distances because building restrictions limit the living space available in the capital.
standard
▪ Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
▪ Given the halving of living standards over the past year, this was an even more remarkable result.
▪ Since the war, living standards have always risen faster under Conservative Governments than under Labour.
▪ As a result, agricultural productivity and peasant living standards remained stagnant.
▪ Inflation creates strife, as different groups in society struggle to restore their living standards.
▪ Families may become dependent for their living standards upon two incomes.
▪ Some people in the Labour party believe that high house prices mean high living standards and affluence.
▪ Rising living standards for those in work have also enabled them to buy more consumer goods.
thing
▪ The first living things evolved in its absence, and many organisms even today still respire without its aid.
▪ For a few days, the beech tree is the most wonderful living thing in the garden.
▪ We, and all other living things, are adapted to the atmosphere as it now is.
▪ Carbon, however, does not perform a solo turn in the creation of living things.
▪ Furthermore each living thing, plant and animal reacts and competes with other members of its species.
▪ And so also with living things other than man.
▪ In the sea, living things fight to keep water out.
▪ They were dangerous because they, these enormous living things, had gained the strength to kill people.
things
▪ The first living things evolved in its absence, and many organisms even today still respire without its aid.
▪ The influence of water upon living things does not end here.
▪ All these movements affect living things in many different ways.
▪ This amplification becomes possible once a system is controlled, and is most dramatic in living things.
▪ Carbon, however, does not perform a solo turn in the creation of living things.
▪ And so also with living things other than man.
▪ In the sea, living things fight to keep water out.
▪ Then again, the internal chemistry of living things is restless.
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.
world
▪ Many naturalists were unwilling to see the living world as the product of such a haphazard process.
▪ Thus imagine that the living world was really as imagined in Figure 1.
▪ MacLeay's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan.
▪ The progression from the molecule to the cell is also the leap from the non-living to the living world.
▪ This would reduce the ability of the living world to take up carbon dioxide.
▪ The living world is divided, fundamentally, into bacteria versus the rest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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 in a fool's paradise
be living on borrowed time
▪ As long as Moira was around, Tamar was living on borrowed time.
▪ But now, as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time.
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.
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)!
in the land of the living
living arrangements
▪ Also information about vocational functioning and living arrangements was gathered by interview.
▪ But I wish he'd civilize his living arrangements.
▪ In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.
▪ It was unclear Thursday whether there would be any change in Sun Bonds' living arrangements.
▪ Kelly moved him to another school for a year before her living arrangements required her to put him back in West University.
▪ Make sure your children feel involved Children should be consulted about living arrangements, not just presented with an ultimatum.
▪ Unfortunately for many of those affected, the amount provided was not nearly enough to pay for more expensive living arrangements.
▪ While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.
living expenses
▪ Most of my paycheck just goes to living expenses.
▪ At present the county council pays his tuition fees and we pay his living expenses, which we can continue.
▪ But that money's for his work ... not for living expenses.
▪ Couples who register pledge to be jointly responsible for their basic living expenses.
▪ It gave us medical coverage and helped cover our living expenses.
▪ So after living expenses and charity there's not a lot left over.
▪ Then there is an estimate of how much was required or expended for his own personal and living expenses.
▪ They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.
living quarters
▪ But the park's present elephants are eager to inspect their £250,000 living quarters before they move in.
▪ Hamilton had disappeared through the connecting passage which led to their living quarters.
▪ I tend to be work-oriented and my living quarters seem to have shrunk, year by year, to this miniature state.
▪ The living quarters of servants undoubtedly improved.
▪ The teens, agitated by their restriction, were randomly leaving their living quarters and vehemently hurling obscenities and spitting at staff.
▪ They were transferring it to living quarters attached to the hospital.
▪ To those used to claustrophobic living quarters and the isolation of island living, a mini-Bio2 seems positively charming.
▪ We visited the chapel and then headed for the living quarters.
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 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
▪ A brother in Australia is Mary's only living relative.
▪ one of the greatest living composers
▪ Seamus Heaney is Ireland's greatest living poet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In return for your resignation, I am offering you the opportunity to study a dreadful disease in a living laboratory.
▪ In the long-term the cost was a noticeable drop in our living standards at home.
▪ It was the most dramatic and outspoken resignation speech in living memory.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
earn
▪ The dealers have got to earn their livings too.
▪ But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
make
▪ It shows how difficult it remains to make a cricket-related living in what is still the smallest populated Test country.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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 on borrowed time
▪ As long as Moira was around, Tamar was living on borrowed time.
▪ But now, as long as they existed, he was living on borrowed time.
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.
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)!
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.
in the land of the living
living arrangements
▪ Also information about vocational functioning and living arrangements was gathered by interview.
▪ But I wish he'd civilize his living arrangements.
▪ In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.
▪ It was unclear Thursday whether there would be any change in Sun Bonds' living arrangements.
▪ Kelly moved him to another school for a year before her living arrangements required her to put him back in West University.
▪ Make sure your children feel involved Children should be consulted about living arrangements, not just presented with an ultimatum.
▪ Unfortunately for many of those affected, the amount provided was not nearly enough to pay for more expensive living arrangements.
▪ While hardly ideal, our living arrangements were suitably ascetic, and conducive to inner preparation.
living expenses
▪ Most of my paycheck just goes to living expenses.
▪ At present the county council pays his tuition fees and we pay his living expenses, which we can continue.
▪ But that money's for his work ... not for living expenses.
▪ Couples who register pledge to be jointly responsible for their basic living expenses.
▪ It gave us medical coverage and helped cover our living expenses.
▪ So after living expenses and charity there's not a lot left over.
▪ Then there is an estimate of how much was required or expended for his own personal and living expenses.
▪ They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.
living quarters
▪ But the park's present elephants are eager to inspect their £250,000 living quarters before they move in.
▪ Hamilton had disappeared through the connecting passage which led to their living quarters.
▪ I tend to be work-oriented and my living quarters seem to have shrunk, year by year, to this miniature state.
▪ The living quarters of servants undoubtedly improved.
▪ The teens, agitated by their restriction, were randomly leaving their living quarters and vehemently hurling obscenities and spitting at staff.
▪ They were transferring it to living quarters attached to the hospital.
▪ To those used to claustrophobic living quarters and the isolation of island living, a mini-Bio2 seems positively charming.
▪ We visited the chapel and then headed for the living quarters.
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 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
▪ the harsh realities of city living
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
▪ Despite Zborowski's frantic efforts to sell his work, Modigliani's living was still very precarious.
▪ The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source.
▪ These inventories, therefore, give a sound idea of the standard of living of thousands of ordinary people.