Example sentences of "[noun] live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 2 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 3 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 4 | In other words , these artists lived during Latin American 's formative years . |
| 5 | A favourite trip is to the woodland estate in the Bernauer Forest , north of the city , where the old communist politbureaucrats lived in pampered seclusion . |
| 6 | Now the Palace Stud lives on borrowed time as Indian racing moves up a gear . |
| 7 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 8 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 9 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 10 | Meanings are crucial to understanding how England lived with chaotic marriage and no divorce for so long before changing the rules governing personal relation-ships decisively . |
| 11 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 12 | Mr Kizza lives in nearby Banda with his new wife . |
| 13 | Lansley 's analysis of the housing tenure of the poorest 10 per cent of households shows that the proportion who are owner-occupiers remained the same , i.e. 25 per cent during the period 1953–73 ; the proportion living in local authority accommodation increased from 13 per cent to 45 per cent , and the proportion living in privately rented and other accommodation was halved from 62 per cent to 31 per cent . |
| 14 | Invariably old age is portrayed by the image of an old lady living in obvious poverty and social neglect . |
| 15 | That still leaves at least 250m Indians living in abject poverty , but at least life appears to be getting a little better for the rest . |
| 16 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
| 17 | For many Arab people , their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces ; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region 's resources , siphoning off cheap oil to the West , while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty , struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West . |
| 18 | The orang-utan studied by MacKinnon ( 1974 ) in Sabah , Borneo , and in Sumatra live in large home ranges in the trees of the rain forest . |
| 19 | Moon rats live in swampy land , forest and cultivated areas , and in the latter have been known to gnaw the bark off young rubber trees . |
| 20 | Whatever the reasons , constantly growing numbers of lone parents live on supplementary benefit . |
| 21 | The highest concentrations of divorced people living with parents are to be found among men whose parents live in local authority accommodation . |
| 22 | Most lone parents live in rented accommodation and most of this is local authority owned : |
| 23 | But in the developing countries of Asia , Africa and Latin America , parents live in mortal fear of these diseases — and for very good reason . |
| 24 | Most students at the Belfast campus who live away from home live in off-campus accommodation in Belfast . |
| 25 | Jerome was confident that even married apostles lived in mutual continence , after the example of their unmarried Lord and his ever virgin mother . |
| 26 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 27 | The Christian community lived in perpetual proximity , even intimacy , with the larger community of which it felt itself to be a part . |
| 28 | By 1976 53 per cent of farm workers lived in tied housing , compared with 34 per cent in 1948 . |
| 29 | For example , it would be foolish to open a DIY hypermarket in a town where 90% of inhabitants were old-age pensioners and 75% of the population lived in rented accommodation ( older people in rented housing clearly do n't carry out as many home repairs or alterations as people , say , in their 30s and 40s who own their own homes ) . |
| 30 | They are fortunate that , for the most part , the increasing personal contact at work , the continuing isolation of farm workers from other occupational groups and the increasing proportion of workers living in tied housing out on the farms are providing opportunities for this identification to be retained , should farmers choose to cultivate it . |