Example sentences of "we [be] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 2 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 3 | Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 5 | We can see hunger , destitution , torture ; we are living in a state of war . |
| 6 | Similarly , if we force them to outwardly behave like us , ignoring the fact that their inner mind still sees things quite differently , then we are living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 7 | I would suggest a counter-proposition : that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information . |
| 8 | It thinks it 's a civil war , a rebellion , and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel . |
| 9 | Lewis could state boldly , as we have seen , that Christianity believes that there is a civil war on , a rebellion , ‘ and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel ’ ( Lewis 1942 : 46 ) . |
| 10 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 11 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 12 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 13 | Foucault describes how we are living in a world of endless insatiable chatter about sex which feeds on the illusion that if we question Sex enough it will reveal its Truths . |
| 14 | We are living in a world of dwindling timber resources , and Gerwyn believes that we are going to have to turn back to using what 's around us . |
| 15 | We are , we are living in a world , we are living in a world where constantly there 's violence , does that happen in the animal world ! |
| 16 | We are , we are living in a world , we are living in a world where constantly there 's violence , does that happen in the animal world ! |
| 17 | ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’ |
| 18 | Erm , I do n't think that er , in structural terms therefore a , a change of government would er , make a great deal , a difference , then you come to er , the general effect of a , a change of government er , I think at the moment we 're living in a situation of uncertainty and er , a clear majority erm , for any party would probably from a business point of view erm , remove the uncertain short term . |
| 19 | For me , this was really a fantastic prospect , for we were to live in a college where we were to have our own bedroom , bathroom and sitting-room , and all meals provided . |
| 20 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 21 | : My husband was in the Royal Air Force and we were living in a flat in Singapore . |
| 22 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |