Example sentences of "people living [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 2 | Officials declared that this form of atmospheric pollution was not harmful , but people living within a two-mile radius of the wreck were given liver and respiratory checks . |
| 3 | People living in a picturesque village say it 's become a rat run for lorries trying to avoid crossing the Severn Bridge . |
| 4 | Here , once again , is official recognition of the essential part played by informal care networks in offering independence and a reasonable quality of life to vulnerable elderly people living in a domestic setting . |
| 5 | So they imagine people living in a pre-political state of " nature " writing social contracts on blank slates . |
| 6 | Approached systematically , however , it would be difficult to show that , before the coming of States which enforced degrees of uniformity upon their citizens , what was common to a people living in a particular territory was greater than what they had in common with people outside the territory . |
| 7 | People living in a particular society must be aware of their laws and institutions since they have to obey them . |
| 8 | Area analysis can be used to provide a company with information about the different types of people living in a particular area . |
| 9 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 10 | PEOPLE living near a disused engineering works in Darlington yesterday welcomed the news that it could soon be demolished . |