Example sentences of "live [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A magic-wielding character of immense power , the Great Enchanter lived for untold centuries . |
| 2 | In other words , these artists lived during Latin American 's formative years . |
| 3 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 4 | Hong Kong lives with knife-edged volatility . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 6 | The bowhead whale has been reduced to five per cent of its original population even though it lives in distant Arctic seas . |
| 7 | He lives in splendid isolation and dreams great dreams . ’ |
| 8 | David Marshall lives in central London , where he devotes his time to writing short stories for magazines and drama for radio . |
| 9 | The anteater lives in Central and South America . |
| 10 | Mr Leonard , who lives in central Darlington , said : ‘ I was cut on the head and pushed to the floor several times . |
| 11 | An even more potent example is the European eagle owl , which in forested regions produces prey assemblages of high diversity , reflecting the faunal composition in these regions , but in the collections from Qatar , where the same species lives in near-desert conditions , its prey assemblages are dominated to very large extent by a single species , which is also the most common large rodent in that part of the desert . |
| 12 | A grazer , it now lives in small herds of five to fifty individuals . |
| 13 | It lives in small troops in defended home ranges that supply its needs . |
| 14 | The little mouse lemur of Madagascar lives in small groups in which each female owns a territory and lives in a tree cavity or hole somewhere within it . |
| 15 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in Eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 16 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 17 | practically eighty per cent of the town population lives in new houses [ i.e. blocks ] . |
| 18 | Among local people who remember the young Tippett organising a performance of The Beggars ' and Robin , an opera he wrote himself , is great grandmother Mrs Madge Tansley , who lives in New Skelton . |
| 19 | In nature the green form lives in green places and the yellow form in yellow and brown places , with rare exceptions . |
| 20 | Mr Wareing , who lives in Green Acre Drive , Bromborough , Wirral , is also the liaison officer for the Duke of Edinburgh scheme . |
| 21 | One that lives in tight-knit family groups with a well worked out hierarchy and a complex communication system ? |
| 22 | The family , which lives in Old Colwyn , had refrained from making any comment on the delays , hoping that patience would pay off . |
| 23 | She lives in rented accommodation . |
| 24 | Ed , who lives in rented accommodation , plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house . |
| 25 | Although Sir John Chester ( who lives in sumptuous lodgings in London ) is his prototype of the cold-hearted aristocrat in Barnaby Rudge ( 1841 ) , while the brother he persecutes is both principled and humane , the family house the latter inhabits ( significantly named ‘ The Warren ’ ) is ripe for destruction , ‘ the very ghost of a house , haunting the old spot in its old outward form , and that was all ’ . |
| 26 | The chimpanzee lives in thick forest conditions of central Africa and in savannah woodland in western and eastern Africa . |
| 27 | In stark contrast , the red-billed quelea — a small African weaver-bird — lives in dense roosts of up to ten million individuals . |
| 28 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the name of the worm I was telling you about , ’ said Preston , ‘ the one that lives in canine excreta . |
| 30 | Mary , his mother , pretending to be a widow , lives in constant dread of Rudge 's menacing demands , and , helped by Varden , tries to hide from him . |