Example sentences of "we live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 2 | We live with a double command : to love God , and to love other people too . |
| 3 | But perhaps more important , at this time when the infancy of our species must end , we have an astronaut 's view of Earth rise above the horizon of the Moon to teach us that we live on a tiny island in a vast ocean of energy , space and time . |
| 4 | Astronauts have learned that we live on a delicate planet whose complex workings are poorly understood . |
| 5 | We live on a lighthouse — it 's our job ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's because we live on a bad star , is n't it , Tess ? ’ he said through his tears . |
| 7 | It 's not the fact we live on a council estate , more likely to have |
| 8 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 9 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 10 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 11 | ‘ No , but we live at a sort of peace with each other , which is good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Since you are a wizard of sorts , you are of course aware that we live upon a world shaped , as it were , like a disc ? |
| 13 | To prevent the spread of infection ( and because we live in a throw-away society ) disposable needles are often used , although if your dog requires prolonged treatment your vet may keep a ‘ permanent ’ set especially for that purpose . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 15 | It is probably the case that we live in a time when the cultural return of homosexuality exacerbates , even intensifies , the psychic return of repressed homosexuality . |
| 16 | We live in a rhythmic world . |
| 17 | ‘ We live in a good country , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We live in a world of uncertainty , where the politicians , church leaders and others have failed . |
| 19 | We live in a world in which one third of the population consumes two thirds of the world 's resources . |
| 20 | We live in a society riddled with loneliness : loneliness in offices , in our comfortable homes , on our estates and in our flats . |
| 21 | We live in a historical period ; written records are kept and we tend to assume that our records are correct and that we can accurately reconstruct the events of the past . |
| 22 | We live in a century imprinted on the present , which regards the past as little more than the springboard from which we were launched on our way . |
| 23 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 24 | I thought : we live in a multicultural society , but everything we see is white and stereotyped . |
| 25 | We live in a world of perceptions , not reality . |
| 26 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 27 | We live in a tremendously reactionary era . |
| 28 | Janet Lacey says : ‘ We live in a world where , in many places , social injustice is the order of the day , where 15,000 people die of hunger each day , where racial discrimination is practised unnoticed on our doorsteps and where political action is disappointing … |
| 29 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 30 | We live in a world that operates on greed , on aggression , on violence and cruelty . |