Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 2 | A national income survey also released in March showed that 29.2 per cent of the population in 1987-88 lived below the official poverty line ( consumption of some US$11 per month ) , as compared with 43.8 per cent a decade earlier . |
| 3 | MR DAVID Mellor , the Home Office Minister of State , said yesterday that he was ‘ almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society ’ as journalists working for tabloid newspapers . |
| 4 | I open some of the popular newspapers covering some people 's private lives or great national tragedies and I feel almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society as people who can produce that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 5 | Not fit to live under the same roof . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The thing is , ’ she said , ‘ that he still thinks I 'm the person he used to know when we all lived in the old hole in the bank . |
| 7 | They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore . |
| 8 | They do not all live in the same place , but in any one place there may be more than one , and perhaps half a dozen , species . |
| 9 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 10 | In the rest of the region , Israel Radio 's coverage allows those living in the Arab world to hear about events that are censored by their own governments . |
| 11 | The dentist recording the dental condition of both the women from Anglesey and the control group from the non-fluoridated Gwynedd mainland was blind to women 's residential status ; those living in the fluoridated area had 30% fewer caries . |
| 12 | A widower can become something of a ‘ cause ’ to those living in the same street or block of flats , whereas a widow , although not shunned , may be to some extent avoided by all but the most caring individuals in the early days of her bereavement . |
| 13 | There is now overwhelming evidence that outcome for people with schizophrenia in Western industrialized countries is markedly inferior to that of those living in the Third World . |
| 14 | On any other morning , Bissett would have been able to live with the thudding blast of the explosives and with the crisp rattle of sub-machine gun and pistol fire . |
| 15 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 16 | It is these few people who are probably very dependent on public transport , and , if it becomes too expensive or infrequent , they may find themselves unable to live in the rural community . |
| 17 | be unable to live in the present moment |
| 18 | But before that , ‘ unfortunately , their domestic life was n't very happy and there was a period in their lives when they both lived in the same house but did n't speak to one another . |
| 19 | The husband left the matrimonial home in 1990 to live with the other woman . |