The phrase "selected to live" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone being chosen to take part in an activity that will result in them living. For example, you might say "I was one of the five people selected to live on a deserted island for a month."
People will be selected to live in the prototypes and to evaluate them, Mr. Voltaire said.
The people of this city are especially selected to live there.
In "The Drowned and the Saved," Levi describes a moment of crisis when he knows he is about to be selected to live or die.
Shaharyar Khan, a philosophy major at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of a handful of seniors selected to live in the early 19th-century academic village designed here by Thomas Jefferson.
Instead, my friends and my life are largely going to be determined by luck — which other freshman I'm randomly selected to live with, which classes I get admitted into, which dining hall I visit on some random Wednesday afternoon.
Two Californians, Bill and Lisa Cooke, are selected to live in a five-room adobe ranch house with their three teenage daughters, running the ranch with hired hands and only the tools and supplies that would have been available in 1867.
While diversity can directly affect economic performance, it is also possible that people from diverse backgrounds can self-select to live in places with economic opportunities.
Of the 100 remaining hopefuls, 24 will be selected to be sent to live and ultimately die on Mars.
Across the nation, those selected to become living monuments on Trafalgar Square's empty fourth plinth must decide how to spend their forthcoming hour of glory.
Rooted in both Buddhist and Hindu tradition, prepubescent girls in Nepal's Kathmandu region are selected to become "living goddesses," or Kumaris, until being replaced before their first menstruation.
Live system information extraction (LSIE): several key kernel symbols are selected to extract live system information, such as process information and module information.
