Example sentences of "[noun pl] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 2 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 3 | The machine tools were housed to one end , the aeroplane assembled at the other , whilst the draftsmen lived in the loft . |
| 4 | It focuses on how human groups lived in the past and the effect these activities had upon the ecology of the landscape . |
| 5 | The fighting cocks lived in the house with us , sleeping under their owners sarongs , and periodically exploded , at all hours , with stentorian " cock-a-doodle-doos " — or , rather , their Indonesian equivalent , for here , of course , the animals speak differently . |
| 6 | Three-quarters of the population throughout the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries lived by the land . |
| 7 | The hens lived in the orchard . |
| 8 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It is surprising how many different kinds of small animals live in the soil . |
| 14 | Both Philips and Nokia were demonstrating wide screen pictures live from the satellite source . |
| 15 | Breeders will face fines if they attempt to boost the number of barn owls living in the wild by releasing birds without a license . |
| 16 | A long time ago the Costanoan Indians lived in the area now called Berkeley . |
| 17 | Only adult moths lived in the fur and there was no sign of eggs or larvae on any sloth . |
| 18 | ONE of the features of Bosnian life was that the Muslims tended to live in the towns , while the Serbs and the Croats lived in the countryside . |
| 19 | Often the activists were fifteen and sixteen years old and parents lived with the fear that their own children could become involved . |
| 20 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Take Antonio Gilvan da Cruz , a member of the Truka community of native Indians living on the island of Nossa Senhora da Assuncao . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A number of businessmen living on the North Wales coast , travelling to and from Manchester daily , joined together and formed a club . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After all , many of the communities living on the edge of a protected area have traditionally enjoyed hunting rights in the area itself . |
| 29 | And , in a fascinating study , Carol Barnes , whose earlier research includes the correlations between ageing , learning and LTP mentioned in the previous paragraph , has allowed rats to live in the type of enriched environment typical of the experiments of Rosenzweig , Bennett and Diamond described in Chapter 6 . |
| 30 | According to the recently published Seventh Plan and other sources nearly 40% of Indians live below the subsistence based poverty level . |