Example sentences of "[adj] living [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , western manufactures spent the '80s living off the volume generated by their existing models and their once-a-decade replacements .
2 They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore .
3 The latter gave the right to self-government and self-taxation to all living within the town walls or boundary , leaving the surrounding rural area under the control of the aristocracy .
4 Taken as a whole the Turneys formed a not unimportant family of landed peasants and yeomen all living in the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard .
5 Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together .
6 If one combines those living below the SB line with those within 140 per cent of it — i.e. those ‘ on the margins of poverty ’ — low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation .
7 The Ingelheim attendance list unfortunately does not include laymen ; but Nithard says that " all those living between the Meuse and the Seine " sent an urgent message to Charles in Aquitaine , " telling him to come before they were taken over by Lothar " .
8 Opposition Members may wave their hands , but for those living under the regime of a loony left council , the follies of its ways can not be highlighted enough .
9 There are other texts which answer different needs , both our own and those living at the time the texts were produced .
10 It seems that existing residents have hardly benefited at all , as most jobs created have gone to those living outside the area , and most economic gains to international finance companies , property developers and construction companies ( see Goodwin , 1989 , for details ) .
11 The concept weaves together elements that are significant in the institutionalization of a region and which are represented in its structures of expectations , while the latter , for their part , operate as a framework for social classification among the inhabitants and those living outside the region .
12 And yet his stories are powerful studies of those living on the edge of life ; of the bitterness and intangible hostility that are the real consequences of deprivation , misfortune and wasted lives .
13 Since the height of the crisis in the early 1980s , living standards have risen again but many of those living on the margins have not made up lost ground .
14 The great mass of them , those living on the lands unoccupied by nobility or church ( the so-called ‘ black ’ lands — as distinct from the ‘ black-earth ’ regions ) , owed allegiance only to the Grand Prince .
15 The first is to provide now a mental health service specifically for hostel dwellers or those living on the streets .
16 One said last night : ‘ In reality , every worker in the nuclear industry is a guinea-pig and the same goes for those living around the plants . ’
17 for those living near the poles , where such a daily cycle is missing , other artificial time-cues must be adhered to instead .
18 Those living near the common have say the festival was like an invasion , but questions are being asked about the way the festival was policed .
19 In the rest of the region , Israel Radio 's coverage allows those living in the Arab world to hear about events that are censored by their own governments .
20 The effect would have been to distance even more those living in the territories from the decision-making machinery of the PLO outside .
21 This compares with one in four of those living in the community who were felt to have relatives who might have helped more — a difference which might well occur by chance .
22 But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave .
23 Many of those living in the cities are trapped : they can not afford to buy their way out , particularly not to the more prosperous areas of the south and rented accommodation — which is in any case largely urban based — is declining nationally .
24 By 1981 , unemployment for those living in the cities was 50 per cent higher than the national average .
25 Few Ayrshire people , even those living in the vicinity , are aware of Dundonald Castle 's place in our history and , in part , this must be attributable to the lack of interest shown in it by local authorities .
26 A widower can become something of a ‘ cause ’ to those living in the same street or block of flats , whereas a widow , although not shunned , may be to some extent avoided by all but the most caring individuals in the early days of her bereavement .
27 Those living in the Scottish mountains were most likely to see snow .
28 Those living in the more remote area like Albany , where I did my first workshop , are truly isolated .
29 In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half .
30 In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half .
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