Example sentences of "lived in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 2 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 3 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 4 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 5 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 6 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 7 | From the shade beneath the trees emerged each day some of the considerable number of people who lived in the mysterious heights . |
| 8 | It is clear that these women subscribers lived in the best parts of London . |
| 9 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 10 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 11 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 12 | There were only three spaces available on a concreted section of the front garden and I normally left these for the use of Mrs Bradshaw and the two families who lived in the second-floor flats . |
| 13 | Needless to say , those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation . |
| 14 | She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her . |
| 15 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 16 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 17 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 18 | And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was . |
| 19 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 20 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 21 | Even so , the jobs located in the cities were not going to inner-city residents but to people who lived in the leafy suburbs . |