Example sentences of "[noun sg] living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 2 | On Sept. 11 Jóse Dionisio Suárez y Esquivel , 51 , a Cuban exile living in the United States , admitted before a court in Washington DC that he had participated in the assassination of the former ambassador to the USA under the Allende regime , Orlando Letelier , on Sept. 21 , 1976 [ see pp. 28273-74 ] . |
| 3 | In the answers to the questionnaire circulated by Purser and Saunders , a monk living among the Shans near the Chinese border described the transformation which would take place when the Maitri Buddha comes : ‘ ’ the mountains will be levelled and world become a vast plain full of orchards , gardens and rice fields . |
| 4 | In this a group of friends form a syndicate to create the Hopkin myth , inventing biographical details ( ‘ a near genius living in the country with a romantic proletarian background , possibly a dipsomaniac mother and so on ’ ) for a painter who does not exist but whose paintings they churn out in a fashionable style ( ‘ with dots , crescent shapes and bright colours ’ ) and exhibit in a sensational first exhibition . |
| 5 | The most famous was ‘ Old Bec ’ , a mule living in the United States in the 1920s . |
| 6 | And there was a Miss living in the croft beside and she dreamt during the night that er he he was stolen . |
| 7 | Coun Michna claimed the vast majority living near the common . |
| 8 | By Malcolm Gluck YOU CAN date your descent ( or , if you prefer , ascent ) into louche living from the moment champagne ceases to be merely sparkling wine of uniform effervescence and taste and becomes individual bottles of wine to be judged against others of like manufacture . |
| 9 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 10 | John Robinson was telling us all in his 1963 book Honest to God that we should get rid of pictures of God as an old man with a beard living in the sky . |
| 11 | He forced his wife to put up with having his mistress living in the house with them . |
| 12 | It is possible that Barbara , a sixteen-year-old West Indian girl living in the Home with her two-week-old baby may get trapped in that circle . |
| 13 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 14 | He was the only other boy living near the village . |
| 15 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 16 | When I met Belle she was an old lady living in the end-of-terrace where her mother had died . |
| 17 | The incidence of breast cancer in women of Japanese origin living in the United States has been intensively studied . |
| 18 | I was asked to be discreet as the lady in question , a possible grand-daughter living on the island , was of affluent mien and might not like to be reminded of her origins . |
| 19 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 20 | Was there a huge hound living on the moor ? |
| 21 | The percentage of older people living in institutional settings increases with age but is always very much lower than the percentage living in the community ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 22 | Under the Administration of justice Act 1982 , where a will contains a devise or bequest to a child or remoter descendant of the testator , and the intended beneficiary dies before the testator , leaving issue who are living at the time of the testator 's death , then , unless a contrary intention appears in the will , the devise or bequest passes to the issue living at the testator 's death . |
| 23 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
| 24 | In the evening we met Ian Lamb , an Englishman living in the hotel with his family . |
| 25 | It was hard enough to stare at his photograph and make it come to life , but it was impossible to imagine the figure in the picture living in the sort of conditions which Normandin and others had described . |
| 26 | Poverty is widespread , with 60 per cent of the population living below the poverty line . |
| 27 | Abroad , Kaspar ( 1981 ) has discussed a computer-based exercise , with GIS overtones , involving the simulated evacuation of the population living in the vicinity of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant in Baden Württemberg . |
| 28 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 29 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
| 30 | The proportion of the population living in the countryside had been declining throughout the century . |