Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If you 're forced to live in a place you hate , it 's the surest way to break up a marriage . ’
2 Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe .
3 As the total amount of paid employment relative to the working population diminishes then we must either break down the barrier between employment and work or be condemned to live in a society permanently divided between the employed and growing numbers of the unemployed .
4 If Ratty from ‘ Wind in the Willows ’ could be imagined living in a town , then Boppard is where we think he 'd choose .
5 The main safeguards in this area are the Housing Acts , supported by public health legislation , which is intended to ensure that no person should be allowed to live in a dwelling that is unfit for human habitation .
6 Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children .
7 The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse .
8 Poverty in El Salvador The majority of Salvadoreans , 68.1 per cent in 1980 , were estimated to live in a state of poverty , unable to meet their basic needs .
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