Example sentences of "people living [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 2 | So , ’ he continued , ‘ if you had a tall skyscraper , say , with people living at the top , they will think everything at the bottom has shrunk — been squashed down — compared to normal . ’ |
| 3 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 4 | Millions of people living on the streets . |
| 5 | Millions of people living on the streets , congestion , pollution yet through it all , caring and a friendship which are not easy to come by even in the richest parts of the Western World . |
| 6 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |
| 7 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 8 | And I get really bummed out when I see people living on the streets . ’ |
| 9 | In a rapidly changing society , with many people living on the margins of subsistence , such support was limited in cost and likely to bring benefits to the giver in return . |
| 10 | This was the customary right to seize wrecked ships and their cargoes enjoyed by people living on the coast and which was believed to lead to the abuse of " wrecking " . |
| 11 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 12 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 13 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 14 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 15 | After all , we 're talking literally hundreds of jobs here , most for people living on the island . |
| 16 | These two sources of evidence suggest that the discharge of long stay patients from the declining mental hospitals is not the main factor contributing to the increase in the numbers of mentally ill people living on the streets . |
| 17 | Again they were disturbing people living on the , either the deck level or the ground floor flats , because of the noise that that made . |
| 18 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 19 | She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames . |
| 20 | The Foundation 's director , Valmik Thapar , also criticized the project 's failure to take into account the needs of local people living on the fringes of the reserves , some of whom were forcibly relocated outside the boundaries when the parks were created . |
| 21 | People living on the estate could n't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour . |
| 22 | People living on the Ryeford canal where they were killed believe three months is n't long enough . |
| 23 | People living on the proposed site say their future is now more uncertain than ever . |
| 24 | He said work had just begun on the Rockwell site where landscaping and planting should encourage wildlife and provide a pleasant outlook for people living on the nearby new housing estate . |
| 25 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 26 | People living on the riverbanks ca n't remember it being so bad for many years and if there 's rugby here tomorrow , then the players will be in for an early bath . |
| 27 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 28 | During 1989 the rail link controversy has extended to London with growing objections from people living along the route of the new tunnelled sections . |
| 29 | The total number of people living below the poverty line ( $370 per year ) in the ‘ developing ’ world will only decline slightly from present levels ( 1,125 million ) to about 825 millions by 2000 . |
| 30 | There were an estimated 13,000,000 people living below the poverty line ( 1,200 roubles per month ) by the end of June 1992 . |