Example sentences of "[noun pl] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other . |
| 2 | Clearly , as artists living in a multi-racial society , the colours in our work will be viewed with varying significance and value . |
| 3 | They think Christians live by a strict set of rules and regulations . |
| 4 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 5 | Opportunities for Nigerians living within a single region to receive alternative views on their own sets are therefore limited . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Tenants living in a ramshackle tenement in the middle of a cosmopolitan district of Liverpool 8 were , likewise , due for redevelopment . |
| 8 | You ca n't force tenants to live under a local monopoly , because consumers want choice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Twentieth-century choreographers rarely deal with fairyland ; they prefer to depict real characters living in a particular environment who have strong individual traits . |
| 12 | Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube . |
| 13 | Its members live in a constant state of irritation that their salaries are about a third of what ‘ yuppiewhite ’ expats make . |
| 14 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 15 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 17 | Perhaps the simplest of these is the expression , ‘ It is the law that … ’ , which we may find on the lips not only of judges , but of ordinary men living under a legal system , when they identify a given rule of the system … |
| 18 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 19 | Finally , there are ‘ authority constraints ’ ; for example , free school transport may not be available to children living within a certain distance of school ; or opening hours may be mis-matched with the timings of public transport , rendering the services effectively inaccessible to users dependent on public transport . |
| 20 | Clare went immediately to pay the bill for the stone , and set out towards Shaston , where he found Mrs Durbeyfield and her children living in a small house . |
| 21 | One DHAC member had discovered John Wilson , his wife and two children living in a small caravan in the Brandywell . |
| 22 | In modern societies living in a healthy environment , the difference is slight . |
| 23 | One in eight children live in a lone parent family |
| 24 | We want to be a big village , we want to be human beings living in a human society |
| 25 | The more affluent citizens live to a riper age , chronically collecting health services paid for by the lifelong taxes of the deceased poor . |
| 26 | Sickle cell anaemia follows a highly variable clinical course : some sufferers die in infancy from the disabling effects of recurrent crises or overwhelming infection , but others live for a normal lifespan . |