Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 2 | Half lived in the South East of England . |
| 3 | Eventually , the Government must make it easier to live without the car . |
| 4 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |
| 5 | However , it is foolish to live with the denial of death , as modern culture tends to do . |
| 6 | It is true that the British were more disposed to live with the reality of the new China than were the Americans , and to the annoyance of Washington they speedily recognized the new regime in Beijing . |
| 7 | It 's impossible to live in the house . ’ |
| 8 | On his father 's death , Farrar abandoned his professional career content to live off the income from his father 's estate which he managed admirably , and instead concentrated on what was to be his lifetime 's consuming interest — the compilation of literature on deafness . |
| 9 | Well , the story was that Arnold Thomas was the ambitious one , while the old man was content to live on the money he got from leasing the land to them as paid the price , usually folk who wanted a storage area or distribution centre . |
| 10 | These lived in the sea as many of their modern relatives still do . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's supposed to live in the land behind the mountains , isolated and lordly . |
| 12 | A fifteen-year-old girl having her first baby is twice as likely to live at the poverty level than a nineteen-year-old first-time mother . |
| 13 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 14 | Are there predictable circumstances in the 1980s where people are likely to live in the home of a relative ? |
| 15 | Most of these live in the province of Sichuan with others in Gansu and Shaanxi . |
| 16 | Millions of these live in the bowel , where they help digestion , so it 's quite normal for them to be present , and all too easy for them to spread — in fact half of all cases of Cystitis are caused by bacterial infection . |
| 17 | And suddenly the kitchen door — we all lived in the kitchen — burst open , and standing there was my father with the most effulgent smile on his face . |
| 18 | The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me . |
| 19 | By contrast , western manufactures spent the '80s living off the volume generated by their existing models and their once-a-decade replacements . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Taken as a whole the Turneys formed a not unimportant family of landed peasants and yeomen all living in the neighbourhood of Leighton Buzzard . |
| 23 | It will not be pleasant for the elderly to live in the town centre . |
| 24 | Can we all live on the wealth of automatic factories and the earnings of an elite band of 60,000 software engineers ? . |
| 25 | They do not all live on the savannah , of course ; hippos prefer rivers and many of the antelope ( bongo , duikers ) prefer forest , as do elephants when it is available . |
| 26 | Hamish should remember that we do n't all live on the doorstep . |
| 27 | And did they all live in the house as well . |
| 28 | Anteaters , sloths , armadillos , hummingbirds , macaws , bats , orang-utans , lots of strange ‘ flying ’ animals including frogs , squirrels and geckos all live in the rainforest . |
| 29 | ‘ They all come from similar backgrounds , they all live within the palace . |
| 30 | Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of |