Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man has a house with twelve rooms : another lives in a cardboard box . |
| 2 | Each flat houses from four to ten students : applicants must , therefore , be prepared to live in a small group with individuals they have never met before , and to take a share of responsibility for the running of the flat and general household and financial matters . |
| 3 | She found it easier to live in a faint fog , at one remove from what most people called reality . |
| 4 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 5 | I am fortunate to live in a beautiful mill that spans one of the great chalk rivers of Hampshire , the Itchen . |
| 6 | Until now the treatment of sports injuries has been a specialist skill only available to top professionals and some people fortunate to live near a good clinic . |
| 7 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 8 | The Finer Report ( 1974 ) on one-parent families ) found that only 1 child in 18 in social classes I and II lived in a simple-parent family , while in class V the proportion was almost 1 in 7 . |
| 9 | We 're all living in a vicious circle . |
| 10 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 11 | It is a subject with which we are thoroughly familiar ; we see hundreds of them every day , and of course , we all live inside a human body . |
| 12 | It is a subject with which we are thoroughly familiar ; we see hundreds of them every day , and of course , we all live inside a human body . |
| 13 | Slogans such as ‘ art for the people ’ mask the cynicism of commercial and political manipulation , which would like to make believe that we all live in a homogeneous society of consumers . |
| 14 | Sadly , a few favourites are ignored altogether — finding some relevance in ‘ We all live in a Yellow Submarine ’ or ‘ I am the Walrus ' , it seems , was beyond even the Research Board . |
| 15 | Those living outside a 50 mile radius £ 10 per year . |
| 16 | Examples of the finest artwork of a particular moment in time or place can give a false impression since they exclude reference to those living on a different level of existence . |
| 17 | Those living within a 50 mile radius of the course £12 per year . |
| 18 | ‘ But it was for richer or poorer and I 'd be happy to live in a cardboard box if it was with my husband . |
| 19 | He returned to Gloucester and , failing to find permanent employment , was obliged to live on a small disability pension and the charity of friends and family . |