Example sentences of "people live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 2 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 3 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 4 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 5 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 6 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 7 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 8 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 9 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 10 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 12 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 13 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 21 | After all , we 're talking literally hundreds of jobs here , most for people living on the island . |
| 22 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 23 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 24 | People living on the estate could n't believe their eyes when they saw their new neighbour . |
| 25 | Skerne Park Community Action Group was set up in 1989 to improve the quality of life for people living on the estate . |
| 26 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 27 | During 1989 the rail link controversy has extended to London with growing objections from people living along the route of the new tunnelled sections . |
| 28 | The total number of people living below the poverty line ( $370 per year ) in the ‘ developing ’ world will only decline slightly from present levels ( 1,125 million ) to about 825 millions by 2000 . |
| 29 | There were an estimated 13,000,000 people living below the poverty line ( 1,200 roubles per month ) by the end of June 1992 . |
| 30 | Surveying rural poverty in 114 nations with sizeable rural landholding populations , the report shows that the number of people living below the poverty line has increased by 40 per cent in the past 20 years . |