Example sentences of "[noun] living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of five kids living in the shadow of Filbert Street , Dublin wrote to clubs all over the country and landed a chance at Norwich . |
| 2 | He would tend to have a number of lowly women on his books living in the locality whom he could call upon at short notice to attend — the Mrs Gamps of this world . |
| 3 | Hydro-Quebec 's James Bay development has met with strong opposition from Cree and Inuit peoples living in the region , who are supported by a growing tide of opposition from Canadian and US environmental groups . |
| 4 | A recent UNICEF study had revealed that the proportion of Jordanians living below the poverty line had risen to 30 per cent ( from 20 per cent before the crisis ) . |
| 5 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 6 | Underwater photographer Norbert Wu has been acclaimed for his studies of the plants and animals living in the oceans of the world . |
| 7 | Look for animals living in the tubes . |
| 8 | On Sept. 11 Jóse Dionisio Suárez y Esquivel , 51 , a Cuban exile living in the United States , admitted before a court in Washington DC that he had participated in the assassination of the former ambassador to the USA under the Allende regime , Orlando Letelier , on Sept. 21 , 1976 [ see pp. 28273-74 ] . |
| 9 | In the answers to the questionnaire circulated by Purser and Saunders , a monk living among the Shans near the Chinese border described the transformation which would take place when the Maitri Buddha comes : ‘ ’ the mountains will be levelled and world become a vast plain full of orchards , gardens and rice fields . |
| 10 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 11 | The most famous was ‘ Old Bec ’ , a mule living in the United States in the 1920s . |
| 12 | On Nov. 28 , the Supreme Soviet passed a law giving citizenship to Russians living outside the borders of the Russian Federation . |
| 13 | And there was a Miss living in the croft beside and she dreamt during the night that er he he was stolen . |
| 14 | FitzRoy had been struck by the peculiar appearance of a group of brownish-black birds living in the islands that resembled finches . |
| 15 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 16 | They followed the fates of individually-known lions living in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania over several years . |
| 17 | Coun Michna claimed the vast majority living near the common . |
| 18 | By Malcolm Gluck YOU CAN date your descent ( or , if you prefer , ascent ) into louche living from the moment champagne ceases to be merely sparkling wine of uniform effervescence and taste and becomes individual bottles of wine to be judged against others of like manufacture . |
| 19 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 20 | Breeders will face fines if they attempt to boost the number of barn owls living in the wild by releasing birds without a license . |
| 21 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 22 | He forced his wife to put up with having his mistress living in the house with them . |
| 23 | Mayhew described the costermongers living in the coster districts of London with wives to whom they were not legally married although they remained permanently attached , and these are only the most famous of such alliances . |
| 24 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 25 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 26 | It is possible that Barbara , a sixteen-year-old West Indian girl living in the Home with her two-week-old baby may get trapped in that circle . |
| 27 | These results suggest that a high proportion of the microorganisms living in the concretion survive by anaerobic respiration such as Fe(III) or sulphate reduction . |
| 28 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ A senior partner of a national firm of insolvency practitioners recently said , and I quote his very words , ‘ we are parasites living on the misfortune of others ’ . ’ |
| 30 | She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts Council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes . |