Example sentences of "who live in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 2 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 3 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 4 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 5 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 6 | At one point , one of the pupils renders ‘ … who lived in a pretty house with a large garden ’ as ‘ … who lived in a palace house with a little grandfather ’ . |
| 7 | She hesitated , remembering the large rambling house she 'd grown up in and the hours she had spent with Mrs Richards , their cook and housekeeper , who lived in a self-contained flat over the double garage . |
| 8 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 9 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 10 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 11 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 12 | Pupils could select areas of a historical map , for example , and call up further screens of related data or sources — the census records of families who lived in a particular house , perhaps . |
| 13 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 14 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 15 | Miss Corinne Day , 27 , a fashion photographer with The Face magazine who lives in a top-floor flat in Brewer Street , said : ‘ I was putting my socks on ready to go out . |
| 16 | Mr Robinson , who lives in a special unit , Wakerley Lodge , at Leicester General Hospital , was injured on November 29 , 1988 when a Ferret scout car crashed . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 19 | Sam , who lives in a modest £70,000 semi in north London , also has a New York apartment and a villa on Spain 's Costa Del Sol . |
| 20 | A DENTAL surgeon who lives in a wooden hut has been lumped into the luxury council tax bracket . |
| 21 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |
| 22 | Altogether there is a population of only about 190 , who live in a scattered community , largely agricultural . |
| 23 | He wanted to emphasize the new play 's connection with The Family Reunion : once again he was to deal with characters who live in a worn-out society , and have lost their way . |
| 24 | Another friend , whose husband is a farmer , shares the care of her parents , who live in a neighbouring village , with a married sister , who also lives nearby . |
| 25 | A farmer and his family who live in a wooden shack on their organic farm say they will lose their home and their livelihood if they are n't allowed to build a proper house . |
| 26 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
| 27 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 28 | Economic considerations are mediated through the minds of human beings who live in a social world , which means that the impact of economics is crucially conditioned by ideology — a notion which has been explored and expanded by the Marxist theorists to whom we now turn . |
| 29 | Those who live in a high-spending authority , inhabit an expensive house and are part of a small household will find themselves at a triple advantage . |