Example sentences of "[noun pl] live [prep] [adj] conditions " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 2 | His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions . |
| 3 | As Table 3.15 shows , the proportion of unskilled workers living in overcrowded conditions is seven times greater than that of the professional group . |
| 4 | Ron Taylor spent his last years living in appalling conditions . |
| 5 | The dogs live in appalling conditions , open to the weather , walking on wires , lying on excrement , they rarely exercise and often make pathetic attempts to escape . |
| 6 | Physical standards for ethnic minorities have deteriorated , with much higher proportions of Asian families living in overcrowded conditions when compared with white households . |
| 7 | Yet families living in overcrowded conditions in Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets increased from 16,000 to 25,000 between 1984 and 1988 , at which date about half the dwellings in these three boroughs were classified as unsatisfactory ( Docklands Consultative Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | This proposed empowering a summary court to order , on application by the medical officer of that Corporation , the removal and detention and maintenance , in an institution infirmary , of elderly , infirm , or physically incapacitated persons living in insanitary conditions , or who were suffering from any grave chronic disease . |
| 9 | However , the studies of cats living under natural conditions have revealed that , apart from an intense early family life , the females in particular may stay in groups as adults . |
| 10 | Comrade Shreeve also said that if the North West Ham branch was impossible to work with , we as citizens living under present conditions were bound to take action . |