Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The patterns of tooth wear and growth and the precision-shear bite are comparable with those seen in Uromastix , a thickset , stumpy-tailed modern lizard , 30 to 40 cm long , that lives in North Africa and Asia .
2 In Sinead 's interview , she proposed a motion which says : ‘ If everyone else was going to do it , would you be prepared to live without money ? ’
3 He finds it easier to live without property .
4 Are you willing to live on bread and cheese and baked beans for a while ? ’
5 Seven were indigenous whites , of whom six lived in Tower Hamlets , the other three patients being refugees recently arrived from Africa .
6 She says that its almost impossible to live on state benefits at the moment and to cut them would be criminal .
7 After that Albert was content to live in squalor , taking most of his refreshment next door at The Two Pheasants to save cooking .
8 The finest of them all was probably Roger Payne ( 1739–97 ) , paradoxically an uneducated , hard-drinking workman , content to live in squalor , yet , over the years 1770–97 , producing for such patrons as Lord Spencer work that influenced the craft not only in England but in France , whose binding had for so long been supreme .
9 A survey of the over 75s living in South Wales revealed that 86 per cent had either visited or stayed in a general hospital ward compared with 33 per cent for a geriatric ward ( Salvage et al .
10 She 's supposed to live down Station Road in Hatfield .
11 It was rumoured that the Ceauşescu pair were personally scrutinizing the Securitate files on those considered possibly worthy to live within sight of their own residence .
12 They are twice as likely to live in council housing , twice as likely to be supported by someone in class V ( if at all ) than in any other class ( Werner 1984 ) .
13 We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody .
14 It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire .
15 Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis .
16 A cleaner in a Sheffield hospital has four teenage children , all unemployed and all living at home , and an unemployed husband .
17 The ceilidh was held in the stable yard of the castle but as there was no lighting , festivities had to cease when it got dark ; great to live by nature 's principles like this , but a shame to stop when it was going so well !
18 It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world .
19 and it becomes effortless to live in accord with my nature .
20 Swiss , Swedish , Colombian , French , Italian , Japanese , Argentinian students all live as part of the family and join in outings .
21 Of these four men , none has developed any cancer , but all live in dread of it .
22 The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago .
23 Nonetheless it was the aspiration of most of those living above subsistence level that they , or their sons , should be absorbed into the expanding middle-class .
24 A comparison is therefore made in Table 4.8 between action and control groups at the time of the second assessment ( approximately six months after the first assessment ) on receipt of some of the main forms of statutory help to those living at home : home help , meals-on-wheels , social worker , community psychiatric nurse , district nurse or bathing assistant , and day care ( day centre or day hospital ) .
25 At present , people living in mental hospitals are therefore disadvantaged compared with those living at home , who can be registered to vote without any test of competence .
26 However , from the South Wales study , it does seem that not all those living at home do register , and not all who register vote .
27 As it is , a large part of the caring that is carried out for older people , both those living at home and those living with relatives , is carried out by women , mostly daughters and daughters-in-law .
28 Anxieties which are currently felt most acutely by those living near destruction plants themselves may not always remain so localised .
29 Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed .
30 Ancient peoples and those living in country districts must have been more sensitive to nature spirits , or the entities underlying physical form .
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