Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man has a house with twelve rooms : another lives in a cardboard box . |
| 2 | And was it defensible to live with a man because I was physically in love with him and also interested in him as an individual , if I was so suspicious of him ? |
| 3 | The people at the children 's home were very kind , but it 's not very exciting to live in a place like that , is it ? ’ |
| 4 | Each flat houses from four to ten students : applicants must , therefore , be prepared to live in a small group with individuals they have never met before , and to take a share of responsibility for the running of the flat and general household and financial matters . |
| 5 | She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal . |
| 6 | She found it easier to live in a faint fog , at one remove from what most people called reality . |
| 7 | It is exceedingly inconvenient to live on a hill top , especially before modern methods of water supply were devised . |
| 8 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 9 | It seemed simple enough at the outset … vegetarian author Rebecca Hall offered to pay ten thousand pounds to any farmer willing to live like a battery chicken for a week . |
| 10 | It would be impossible to live with a woman like Gwen and not know that other men envied you , would like to fish in your pond . |
| 11 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 12 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 13 | I am fortunate to live in a beautiful mill that spans one of the great chalk rivers of Hampshire , the Itchen . |
| 14 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 15 | Does tha live in a commune ? |
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| 23 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 24 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 25 | The Finer Report ( 1974 ) on one-parent families ) found that only 1 child in 18 in social classes I and II lived in a simple-parent family , while in class V the proportion was almost 1 in 7 . |
| 26 | While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury . |
| 27 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 28 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 29 | Well , it would depend but I mean there are various of nuisance from noise in the flats , or anywhere where you 've got a lot of people put together all living in a s fairly small area . |
| 30 | We 're all living in a vicious circle . |