Example sentences of "have live [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But John Smith has to live with a running sore in his own constituency , just beyond the depressed eastern fringe of Glasgow .
2 He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station .
3 In fact , ERPS has lived in a small corner of the works property since it took delivery of ex-Southern Railway 30828 4-6-0 the Maunsell development of the Urie S15 Class from Barry in March 1981 .
4 Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer .
5 He has lived in a large house in Buckinghamshire for several years .
6 That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket .
7 When Boris began sleeping with her , villagers who wondered what would happen if the husband found out were told by wiser villagers : ‘ If you 'd lived in a big town you 'd know that the husband knows . ’
8 After all , I have had to live with a big bottom all my life !
9 Why should I have to live in a one-bedroom flat when others have spacious houses ?
10 They could have lived on a tropic isle .
11 There the Millers may have lived for a short while .
12 It was the opposition of those whose careers were ruined — bankrupt restorations can not reward the victors and conciliate the vanquished — and of those who , having lived in a free society , could not tolerate the frustrations of an unfree society in which private criticism could not be translated into public action .
13 They seem , in the months that followed , to have lived with a new intensity , half-knowing that their shared joy in creativity and friendship might never be repeated .
14 To be a true professional , you had to live in a closed world .
15 Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way .
16 She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary .
17 She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread .
18 On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ .
19 She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised .
20 that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves .
21 Those who have lived with a large refrigerator on board their yacht in sunnier climes will remember what a bother it is to have to run the engine for an hour every day to keep the drinks cold and the food fresh .
22 Missionaries who have lived with a cultural expression of the gospel adapted to their own context have to divest the message of that cultural adaptation and seek to introduce the gospel in a form which is culturally appropriate to the community in which they are seeking to communicate .
23 ‘ Several members of my family have lived to a good age .
24 Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man .
25 I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me .
26 This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives .
27 If you have lived in a European Community country or any country whose social security system is linked to Britain 's by a reciprocal agreements , contributions or residence there may be counted towards your pension depending on the country concerned .
28 In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached .
29 But , since glasnost , they have lived in a different world .
30 We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden .
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