Example sentences of "[n mass] living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the World Bank , the proportion of Thais living below the poverty line fell from 59% in 1960 to 26% in 1986 and , with the three years of double-digit economic growth that followed , must have fallen much further since . |
| 2 | I would think so and the particularly the folk living in the towns consciously tended to use less Orcadian you know they they 'd more dealings with folk from outside the islands for one thing and folk come on in off ships and so on . |
| 3 | Fish living on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours . |
| 4 | There are two very different kinds of flat fish living on the sea bottom , and they have evolved their flatness in quite different ways . |
| 5 | This is particularly important when Catfish are housed in the aquarium because if the substrate has stagnated the fish living on the substrate are the first to suffer . |
| 6 | The Delta Smelt , a small fish living in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta in northern California , has been listed as " threatened " by the US Fish and Wildlife Service . |
| 7 | The same applies with even greater reason to the domicile requirement , which , according to the United Kingdom , is a more stringent requirement than mere residence and means living in the member state with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 8 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 9 | So , ’ he continued , ‘ if you had a tall skyscraper , say , with people living at the top , they will think everything at the bottom has shrunk — been squashed down — compared to normal . ’ |
| 10 | Millions of people living on the streets . |
| 11 | Millions of people living on the streets , congestion , pollution yet through it all , caring and a friendship which are not easy to come by even in the richest parts of the Western World . |
| 12 | And I get really bummed out when I see people living on the streets . ’ |
| 13 | These two sources of evidence suggest that the discharge of long stay patients from the declining mental hospitals is not the main factor contributing to the increase in the numbers of mentally ill people living on the streets . |
| 14 | People living on the riverbanks ca n't remember it being so bad for many years and if there 's rugby here tomorrow , then the players will be in for an early bath . |
| 15 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 16 | The Foundation 's director , Valmik Thapar , also criticized the project 's failure to take into account the needs of local people living on the fringes of the reserves , some of whom were forcibly relocated outside the boundaries when the parks were created . |
| 17 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 18 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 19 | This is because kinship links are strongly morally and socially charged , while those between worker and employer are impersonal , because kinship implies reciprocal rights and duties while the capitalist has all the rights and the worker all the duties , because kinship links can not be broken at will while those of the labour market can , and because , as Marx and Engels wrongly believed , kinship links are egalitarian and non-exploitative ; that is , they do not involve one group of people living on the back of another . |
| 20 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |
| 21 | This was the customary right to seize wrecked ships and their cargoes enjoyed by people living on the coast and which was believed to lead to the abuse of " wrecking " . |
| 22 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 23 | People living on the Ryeford canal where they were killed believe three months is n't long enough . |
| 24 | After all , we 're talking literally hundreds of jobs here , most for people living on the island . |
| 25 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 26 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 27 | People living on the estate could n't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour . |
| 28 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 29 | She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames . |
| 30 | In a rapidly changing society , with many people living on the margins of subsistence , such support was limited in cost and likely to bring benefits to the giver in return . |