Example sentences of "[noun pl] live in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , as artists living in a multi-racial society , the colours in our work will be viewed with varying significance and value . |
| 2 | Gary and Nails lived in an old dump behind the bus station . |
| 3 | Even if the fighting dies down , no answer is in sight to the political issue that led to the war — the reluctance of most of Bosnia 's Serbs and many of its Croats to live in an independent Bosnian state . |
| 4 | This is mum and dad ; the two Eagles live in a huge outdoor aviary at the centre and just before Christmas , laid two eggs . |
| 5 | Only 34 per cent of lone parents live in a detached or semi-detached house compared with 61 per cent of other families ; and 13 per cent of lone parents are over-crowded compared with 6 per cent of other families ( OPCS , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 7 | Exhibitions and trade shows work can be great fun — there is a chance to meet many new faces , stay in good hotels , have jolly meals with new-found colleagues and for a few days live in a different and , almost always , pleasant if busy world . |
| 8 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 9 | Secondly , a survey will be conducted to compare the experiences of , and attitudes to , the police and other criminal justice personnel of young black and white males living in a selected provincial city . |
| 10 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 11 | Tenants living in a ramshackle tenement in the middle of a cosmopolitan district of Liverpool 8 were , likewise , due for redevelopment . |
| 12 | The villagers lived in a single , communal building known as a longhouse , built on stilts to prevent flooding in the rainy season . |
| 13 | Twentieth-century choreographers rarely deal with fairyland ; they prefer to depict real characters living in a particular environment who have strong individual traits . |
| 14 | Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube . |
| 15 | Its members live in a constant state of irritation that their salaries are about a third of what ‘ yuppiewhite ’ expats make . |
| 16 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 17 | One DHAC member had discovered John Wilson , his wife and two children living in a small caravan in the Brandywell . |
| 18 | Clare went immediately to pay the bill for the stone , and set out towards Shaston , where he found Mrs Durbeyfield and her children living in a small house . |
| 19 | Our second example comes from observations by Jerome Kagan and Robert Kleinl of a group of Guatemalan children living in an Indian village in an isolated , mountainous area of the country . |
| 20 | In modern societies living in a healthy environment , the difference is slight . |
| 21 | One in eight children live in a lone parent family |
| 22 | We are not as women living in a political and social vacuum . |
| 23 | We want to be a big village , we want to be human beings living in a human society |