Example sentences of "[noun pl] living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of five kids living in the shadow of Filbert Street , Dublin wrote to clubs all over the country and landed a chance at Norwich . |
| 2 | He would tend to have a number of lowly women on his books living in the locality whom he could call upon at short notice to attend — the Mrs Gamps of this world . |
| 3 | Hydro-Quebec 's James Bay development has met with strong opposition from Cree and Inuit peoples living in the region , who are supported by a growing tide of opposition from Canadian and US environmental groups . |
| 4 | A recent UNICEF study had revealed that the proportion of Jordanians living below the poverty line had risen to 30 per cent ( from 20 per cent before the crisis ) . |
| 5 | Underwater photographer Norbert Wu has been acclaimed for his studies of the plants and animals living in the oceans of the world . |
| 6 | Look for animals living in the tubes . |
| 7 | On Nov. 28 , the Supreme Soviet passed a law giving citizenship to Russians living outside the borders of the Russian Federation . |
| 8 | FitzRoy had been struck by the peculiar appearance of a group of brownish-black birds living in the islands that resembled finches . |
| 9 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 10 | They followed the fates of individually-known lions living in the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania over several years . |
| 11 | Breeders will face fines if they attempt to boost the number of barn owls living in the wild by releasing birds without a license . |
| 12 | Mayhew described the costermongers living in the coster districts of London with wives to whom they were not legally married although they remained permanently attached , and these are only the most famous of such alliances . |
| 13 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 14 | These results suggest that a high proportion of the microorganisms living in the concretion survive by anaerobic respiration such as Fe(III) or sulphate reduction . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ A senior partner of a national firm of insolvency practitioners recently said , and I quote his very words , ‘ we are parasites living on the misfortune of others ’ . ’ |
| 16 | She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts Council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 17 | She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 18 | Take Antonio Gilvan da Cruz , a member of the Truka community of native Indians living on the island of Nossa Senhora da Assuncao . |
| 19 | Just how complicated a problem this may turn out to be is indicated by the following quotations from the opening paragraphs of the first two chapters of Christine Hugh-Jones ' very remarkable book From the Milk River , which is a study of Pira-pirana Indians living in the Vaupes region of Colombia , as viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of a single longhouse community in which she and her husband resided for two years between September 1968 and December 1970 : |
| 20 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 21 | Rats living in the storerooms of his house emerged from their holes , carrying their young in their teeth , and ran to higher ground . |
| 22 | A number of businessmen living on the North Wales coast , travelling to and from Manchester daily , joined together and formed a club . |
| 23 | She had a wide circle of friends , all from the same social set , ex-public school , most of them with parents living in the country . |
| 24 | After all , many of the communities living on the edge of a protected area have traditionally enjoyed hunting rights in the area itself . |
| 25 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 26 | It was higher still in what Crewe calls the ‘ new working class ’ — workers living in the south , owning their own homes , employed in the private sector and not in trade unions . |
| 27 | Given the emotional fervour in support of Saddam Hussein among Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , Arafat felt compelled to continue his support for Iraq . |
| 28 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 29 | Worms living in the bloodstream or tissue spaces , such as the filarioids , feed exclusively on fluids . |
| 30 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |