Example sentences of "the people live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 2 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 3 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 4 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 5 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 6 | As the situation went from bad to worse , the people living near the volcano became increasingly distressed , and many tried to leave St Pierre , heading for Fort-de-France , Martinique 's second town . |
| 7 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 8 | It is important to understand that they are the people living in the area — the people who have suffered so much since 1947 . |