Example sentences of "[noun sg] live [prep] [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 | Lansley 's analysis of the housing tenure of the poorest 10 per cent of households shows that the proportion who are owner-occupiers remained the same , i.e. 25 per cent during the period 1953–73 ; the proportion living in local authority accommodation increased from 13 per cent to 45 per cent , and the proportion living in privately rented and other accommodation was halved from 62 per cent to 31 per cent . |
| 3 | Invariably old age is portrayed by the image of an old lady living in obvious poverty and social neglect . |
| 4 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
| 5 | Most students at the Belfast campus who live away from home live in off-campus accommodation in Belfast . |
| 6 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 7 | The Christian community lived in perpetual proximity , even intimacy , with the larger community of which it felt itself to be a part . |
| 8 | For example , it would be foolish to open a DIY hypermarket in a town where 90% of inhabitants were old-age pensioners and 75% of the population lived in rented accommodation ( older people in rented housing clearly do n't carry out as many home repairs or alterations as people , say , in their 30s and 40s who own their own homes ) . |
| 9 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
| 10 | That 's a memory shared by Ronnie Biggs who'se living in enforced exile in Brazil … |
| 11 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |
| 12 | Reification , is then , the necessary , immediate reality of every person living in capitalist society . |
| 13 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 14 | As a successful example of the approach , consider the following study of Dendrocoelum , a flatworm living in fresh water and usually found under stones . |
| 15 | It is said that as he left , blood flowed from the nostrils of the dead king , a fact which some took as a sign since the body of a murdered man will bleed in the presence of his murderer ; but Henry 's death was the outcome of a life lived at full tilt . |
| 16 | The will live in temporary accommodation until the work is completed . |
| 17 | The priory was plundered of its stones for Southover Grange , built for William Newton in 1572 , and Southover Manor was constructed for the Earl of Dorset 's steward to live in suitable style . |
| 18 | At one point , in an announcement broadcast live in special television and radio reports , Miami police said they had the girlfriend , Patsy Jones , in custody . |
| 19 | The chimpanzee lives in thick forest conditions of central Africa and in savannah woodland in western and eastern Africa . |
| 20 | Another couple living on total state benefits of £64 had acquired everything they own at least second-hand except for a coffee table , bedding and clothes bought through a tally man . |
| 21 | " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . " |
| 22 | From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity . |
| 23 | According to Nicholas Clee , from the bookseller J Whitaker and Sons in London , any writer planning to embark on such a book would be advised to create a family living in rural bliss with a gaggle of children then land them in a crisis , preferably involving the central character in an affair with an older/younger man/woman . |
| 24 | For instance , one family living in good material circumstances but under many stresses , was referred because of their two-year old daughter 's failure to thrive and their nine-year old son 's serious underachievement at school . |