Example sentences of "[noun] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 32 | Opportunities for Nigerians living within a single region to receive alternative views on their own sets are therefore limited . |
| 33 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 34 | Tenants living in a ramshackle tenement in the middle of a cosmopolitan district of Liverpool 8 were , likewise , due for redevelopment . |
| 35 | You ca n't force tenants to live under a local monopoly , because consumers want choice . |
| 36 | Fortunately , the following morning I had nothing to do in particular , so I had a chance to live through a vague sense of hangover . |
| 37 | Nicolas , 32 , and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her . |
| 38 | In Devon , Bailey and Catherine live in a rambling fourteenth-century farmhouse . |
| 39 | This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase . |
| 40 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 41 | Would she understand how Juliet felt , with their tiny house and small garden , when the Westwoods lived in a great house with lots of land — Nigel had told her often enough — and all their friends were the same ? |
| 42 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 43 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 44 | Nanny lived in a big house on the corner of Lansdowne Place , near the club and the post office and opposite the big church . |
| 45 | Brian lived with a primitive terror of outer darkness which he rationalized as a fear of failure : this he further refined into a disinclination to live out of London . |
| 46 | Many people lived on a similar diet , and chases took place slowly . |
| 47 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 48 | The famous Durance coterie had come to an end and all that was left was Sabine painting in the hills and another old woman living in a neglected villa in Antibes . ’ |
| 49 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 50 | THE aristocratic former wife of a Scottish earl is now a prostitute and a junkie living in a high-rise council flat , a court heard yesterday . |
| 51 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 52 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 53 | Officials declared that this form of atmospheric pollution was not harmful , but people living within a two-mile radius of the wreck were given liver and respiratory checks . |
| 54 | People living in a picturesque village say it 's become a rat run for lorries trying to avoid crossing the Severn Bridge . |
| 55 | Here , once again , is official recognition of the essential part played by informal care networks in offering independence and a reasonable quality of life to vulnerable elderly people living in a domestic setting . |
| 56 | So they imagine people living in a pre-political state of " nature " writing social contracts on blank slates . |
| 57 | Approached systematically , however , it would be difficult to show that , before the coming of States which enforced degrees of uniformity upon their citizens , what was common to a people living in a particular territory was greater than what they had in common with people outside the territory . |
| 58 | People living in a particular society must be aware of their laws and institutions since they have to obey them . |
| 59 | Area analysis can be used to provide a company with information about the different types of people living in a particular area . |
| 60 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |