Example sentences of "[noun pl] live [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 2 | In other words , these artists lived during Latin American 's formative years . |
| 3 | Originally the coastal Eskimos , Chukchis and Koryaks lived in subterranean lodges like those of the Nivkhs . |
| 4 | A favourite trip is to the woodland estate in the Bernauer Forest , north of the city , where the old communist politbureaucrats lived in pampered seclusion . |
| 5 | An emotional welcome at Heathrow Airport for twenty-one Russian orphans , over here for twelve months living with English families and going to English schools . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 7 | During 1940–4 , Frenchmen living in metropolitan France both turned more to the radio and relied less on the press . |
| 8 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 9 | Thus , contemporary peoples living in distant areas are viewed as though they were relics of one 's own past ( Fabian 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 11 | People living in the houses were also less likely to be in the company of individuals who had competing needs to their own ; clients living in staffed houses were likely to be the only service user in the room for 63 per cent of the time ( and mostly with just one other for the remainder ) , compared with 42 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses , 33 per cent in ordinary hospital wards and 27 per cent in special units . |
| 12 | Some employers ‘ black list ’ recruits living in certain areas . |
| 13 | Contrast this arrangement with that in some frogs living in wet places , which have no problem with water loss , and breathe mostly through their skin , which is well supplied with blood-vessels . |
| 14 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ There are always survivors , ’ she said , and told me about cancer patients given six months to live by conventional doctors , whom she had sustained over several years . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought all Archdeacons wanted clergy to live in modern bungalows based on designs derived from the local constabulary ? ’ |
| 17 | Sharon said : " This is not a settlement or an invasion , it is the right of Jews to live in Jewish homes legally rented to them in Jerusalem , the capital of Israel . " |
| 18 | The animals live in matriarchal family groups of about a dozen to thirty individuals in which adult offspring remain as group members but do not breed under normal circumstances . |
| 19 | He presumably spends his winters in a nice clean stable but most animals live in muddy fields . |
| 20 | The answer is linked with the fact that many distasteful or venomous animals live in social groups . |
| 21 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 22 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 23 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 24 | According to its declared aims ‘ INVA [ will be ] informed by the concept of ‘ new internationalism ’ which places the work of non-European artists and those from minority cultures living in western states alongside their American and European peers ’ . |
| 25 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 26 | The third project will investigate how the growth of owner-occupation may have different implications , economically , politically and socially , among different groups living in different parts of the country according to variations in local housing markets , employment situations , cultural forms , and so on . |
| 27 | The long-term objectives of the festival and workshops are to develop alternative communication and education models , strengthen local cultures and traditions , and document the history of the various ethnic groups living in Latin America . |
| 28 | There are instances of change in diet related to habitat : tawny owls living in wooded areas eat more moles and fewer birds , whereas in more open areas they eat more voles and birds ( Southern , 1954 ) . |
| 29 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 30 | His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions . |