Example sentences of "living nearby " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the casual or occasional visitor to High Rocks , the season ticket agreement may seem irrelevant at the moment — just something to please climbers living nearby who go there regularly . |
| 2 | Certainly there is no scientific evidence that living nearby increases the risk of sickness . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , it was another early closure , with only a few people living nearby . |
| 4 | There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place . |
| 5 | Living alone , although a very real care problem for many dementia sufferers because of the need some of them have for continual safeguarding , might not in itself be a problem for all if they had sons or ( more realistically ) daughters living nearby who could help with their care . |
| 6 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |
| 7 | She had children living nearby , but they gave only limited assistance ; she also had a home help . |
| 8 | Her bitterness was divided equally between the medical profession , who she felt had let her down , and her sister , who although living nearby , had left her to look after their mother while the old lady died slowly of cancer . |
| 9 | In the yard at the back , a slow burning bon fire added to the pong which could not have been good for those living nearby . |
| 10 | Without doubt , the concentration of some incomers in estates has tended to limit their chances for establishing close social relationships with Shetlanders living nearby . |
| 11 | H e most often appears as a ghostly mosquito who will suck the blood of any white child living nearby and use this life-force to resurrect the dead . |
| 12 | It must be a great blessing to have Chloe 's grandparents living nearby . |
| 13 | Thanks to the timely action of those living nearby — the Titfords probably among them — and the deployment of the town fire engines , the workshops themselves were saved . |
| 14 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 15 | PLANS to build a petrol filling station have been rejected by councillors because of the disturbance it would cause to people living nearby . |
| 16 | People living nearby rushed to lift the car off her . |
| 17 | This may well understate the extent of contact by the working class who may well see their relatives living nearby several times in one week . |
| 18 | Neighbours , by definition , have the advantage of proximity and are in a better position to keep an eye on elderly or infirm people living nearby . |
| 19 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 20 | Moore 's sister Charlotte McDevitt , living nearby , responded with a swift ‘ no comment ’ when asked about the wedding . |
| 21 | There were reports of casualties but no deaths , and people living nearby were evacuated ; it was reported on April 9 that no chemical or nuclear weapons were stored in the depot . |
| 22 | It included , for example , frequency of talking to neighbours , involvement in ‘ Chinese activities ’ , and number of close friends living nearby . |
| 23 | Examples include sound insulation ; the purchase of owner-occupied property which is severely affected by construction work or by the use of a new or improved highway : the erection of physical barriers ( such as walls , screens , or mounds of earth ) on or alongside roads to reduce the effects of traffic noise on people living nearby ; the planting of trees and the grassing of areas ; and the development or redevelopment of land for the specific purpose of improving the surroundings of a highway ‘ in a manner desirable by reason of its construction , improvement , existence or use ’ . |
| 24 | Toxic chemicals dumped in the unlined landfill site were believed to be responsible for leukaemia and birth defects among children of families living nearby . |
| 25 | If you 're going to have to find a much larger area you have to spread your net wider to find more and more sites for development which you might otherwise have been able to save from development , and there will an environmental cost , a cost to the quality of life of people living nearby because sites you might not wish to have developed must be included to find the target figure of industrial development . |
| 26 | People living nearby ran to help them . |
| 27 | When 20,000 people gathered for an illegal festival at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last May , they brought misery to thousands living nearby . |
| 28 | These travellers , many from Stroud in Gloucestershire , are just the latest to have moved onto private land , infuriating the owners and people living nearby . |
| 29 | But people living nearby are not happy with the decision . |
| 30 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |