Example sentences of "live [adj] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steven , who lives alone in a rented house at Peterborough , stunned Mensa chiefs by achieving the maximum IQ score of 161 . |
| 2 | Professor Woodgust of the Edinburgh School of Agriculture studied the behaviour of pigs living loose in a mixed habitat including forests , marsh , grassy pastures , bushes and a stream . |
| 3 | Depression , which is a very common cause of loss of appetite , often reduces old people who are living alone to a tea-and-toast-type diet , on which they soon become ill . |
| 4 | Mrs B is an 86-year-old widow , living alone in a two-apartment flat . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 6 | OLD Miss Miggs lived alone in a tiny cottage on the outskirts of Shadwell . |
| 7 | So Wolski lived alone in a tiny lodging . |
| 8 | Dotty Harmer was an eccentric old maid who lived alone in a ramshackle cottage in one of the meadows which bordered the path to Lulling Woods . |
| 9 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |
| 10 | The successful working-class children — that is , those who stayed the full seven-year course to Higher School Certificate or A levels — usually came from small families and often lived near to a primary school serving a predominantly middle-class area . |