Example sentences of "[noun] are living [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RESIDENTS of St Osyth are living in fear the opening of the new Wivenhoe flood barrier will have disastrous consequences for their homes . |
| 2 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 3 | Christians in Pakistan are living in increasing fear for their lives following the deaths earlier this year of two men at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists . |
| 4 | Refugees from the Iraq regime 's genocidal chemical weapons war against the people of Iraq Kurdistan are living in appalling conditions in Turkey , Iran or parts of Iraq outside their own region , in internment camps . |
| 5 | You know as well as I do that the Wharfmasters are living off the fat of the land on their company profits , but how are the dockers expected to support their wives and kids on seventy-two shillings and sixpence a week ? ’ |
| 6 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 7 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if their parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 8 | There are an awful lot of children in the United Kingdom in fact who are living in the sort of poverty and who 's parents are living in the sort of poverty which in a rich country like our own , should not be tolerated . |
| 9 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 10 | The youngsters are living in dire poverty in their home country . |
| 11 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 12 | Zukov and Mubarak are living in the camp outside the walls . |
| 13 | About a quarter of the refugees are living in camps and the government plans to incorporate then into co-operatives as soon as possible . |
| 14 | A total of 20 million people in Russia are living in areas where the ecological situation is " critical " , according to a report by state environmental protection officials . |
| 15 | Estimates of the extent of desertification vary ; the Gaia atlas of planet management ( Myers 1985 ) , for example , suggests that c. 10 per cent of the 700 million people that inhabit the arid and semi-arid zones are living in areas that are becoming impoverished and that c. 12 million ha of land are degraded annually to such an extent that they are agriculturally unproductive . |
| 16 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
| 17 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 18 | ‘ We suffer apartheid here , apartheid reigns , ’ says a miner at Tsumeb copper mine , one of Namibia 's three largest mines where workers are living in conditions comparable to those in South Africa . |
| 19 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 20 | We hear that you and your husband are living at Riverstown since the poor Major 's death and would be so pleased if you can come and dine with us on December 19th . |
| 21 | Some 35,000 Salvadoreans are living in this controlled zone . |
| 22 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that many bed-and-breakfast families are living below the level of subsistence and that parents go without so that children can eat ? |
| 23 | Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad , cut off from family and friends . |
| 24 | Comparing his York findings with Booth 's in London , Rowntree concluded that ‘ we are faced with the startling probability that from 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the town population of the United Kingdom are living in poverty ’ . |
| 25 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 26 | Although the overall picture which emerges in this essentially exploratory study will not feel new to Social Services practitioners — that is , that the financial costs of caring are considerable even in the better off three-adult households , and the majority of two-adult households are living in poverty — the detail of the data adds both emphasis and new angles . |
| 27 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 28 | In the youngest age group , 65–69 years , most elderly people are living with their spouse , 37 per cent as one of a married couple whose partner is over 65 , and 20 per cent with a partner under 65 . |
| 29 | erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different . |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend please look into the matter because those people are living off the system that they seek to destroy with their bombs and bullets ? |