Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extended families live in a group of houses ( a compound ) connected by a single outer wall , and surrounded by their farmland . |
| 2 | In such an approach all individual elements live within a tree structure as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 3 | In 1985 , 8 out of 10 children lived in a family headed by both natural parents ( 78% in a family headed by a married couple and 2% with cohabiting parents ) . |
| 4 | They tell little lies to get themselves out of trouble or make themselves look good , but real villains live in a fantasy world . |
| 5 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 6 | They were completely serious moral beings living in a world where such terms usually had no content . |
| 7 | ‘ She said the most important thing in the world was little frogs living in a flower , ’ Masklin went on , trying to listen to the voice of his own memory . |
| 8 | For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind . |
| 9 | It is fitting that the river should , according to legend , be associated with Tamara , a beautiful nymph who in ancient times lived in a cave deep below the earth . |
| 10 | So I spent the 4 weeks living in a style to which I was not accustomed , but found no difficulty in adopting ! |
| 11 | An opportunity will be provided , therefore , to examine current concepts of historical communities and to assess the extent to which different socio-economic sub-groupings lived within a number of different communities . |
| 12 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 13 | He was eating his food , and , I thought to myself , ‘ Christ , how he has changed his appearance after five days living in a hole in the ground ! ’ |
| 14 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 15 | In other countries , the indigenous peoples live in a state of siege . |
| 16 | But other marsupials live in a way that would make such an exposed method of transport positively lethal . |
| 17 | It 's proved a good way of picking up and pigeonholing the plight of the young middle classes living in a country in retreat . |
| 18 | no tail oh dear oh dear but you see then of course and I was still not married but you see I , as I say , then I went to Cambridge and that 's when I met my husband and all his family were so kind to me , er he had erm two sisters living in a flat round the backs , you 've heard of round the backs |
| 19 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 20 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 21 | of literary gossips lives in a world of its own , overlapping with the newspaper world . |