Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lives in a tied cottage owned by them . |
| 2 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're probably the best troops that the Philippine army has , ’ said Mr Peter Choynowski , an executive of the Asian Development Bank from Canada , who lives in a high-rise flat shelled by mortars . |
| 4 | A DENTAL surgeon who lives in a wooden hut has been lumped into the luxury council tax bracket . |
| 5 | Once more it is helpful to consider the situation of a two-dimensional being who lives on a spherical surface embedded in our three-dimensional space . |
| 6 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |
| 7 | Suddenly Europe tells me I am living in a new country called Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 8 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 9 | People living in a picturesque village say it 's become a rat run for lorries trying to avoid crossing the Severn Bridge . |
| 10 | She is living in a superficial world appearing to act as the ‘ lovely creature ’ she is . |
| 11 | Mr Maurice Cann , development control officer , said : ‘ If permission is granted the occupiers of this building will be living in a substandard environment surrounded by a variety of industrial and commercial uses . ’ |
| 12 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 13 | Only a quarter of children with a good relationship and living in a discordant home showed a conduct disorder in a study reported by Rutter ( 1979a ) , compared to three-quarters of those lacking such a relationship . |
| 14 | Opportunities for Nigerians living within a single region to receive alternative views on their own sets are therefore limited . |
| 15 | Living on a low income requires strict budgeting and control over expenditure . |
| 16 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 17 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 18 | Sally lived in a happy whirl marred only by worrying about how far she should go . |
| 19 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 20 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 21 | The happy couple live in a cosy house overlooking the sea in the posh Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades . |
| 22 | These ‘ happy homes ’ are meant to give old people a sense of dignity and worth , but in reality they live in a privatised world cut off from both family and the wider community . |
| 23 | To set up such a tank containing only the larger species so that they live in a harmonious group requires careful thought . |
| 24 | For many it is a strange and difficult experience , one which people who have always lived in a nuclear family find hard to understand . |