Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly no sadness for me that I live in a house that is open to the public . |
| 2 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't broadcast the fact that I live in a castle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Astronauts have learned that we live on a delicate planet whose complex workings are poorly understood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 8 | Yet by the mid 1970s policy-makers , convinced that we live in a world of free markets , began to display an implied belief in its basic tenets ( Brittan , 1975 ; Harris and Sewill , 1975 ] . |
| 9 | It is precisely because such a code does not exist , that we live in a period of uncertainty and experimentation . |
| 10 | The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns . |
| 11 | I know that Basil saw no simple future at the end of human life because we talked of this last summer ; neither can I. But I do believe that we live in a world whose climate of thought and feeling is created by human beings , many of whom have lived before us , often but little recognised . |
| 12 | It 's claimed by many people that we live in a cycle where , if you like , we struggle to get through fifty weeks of the year to live for holidays recharge the batteries , then you go into it again . |
| 13 | The radical feminist argument is , briefly , that we live in a patriarchy — a system in which men maintain power over women . |
| 14 | Precise definition of what is and is not a legitimate purpose is probably not possible , but the fact that we live in a competitive or acquisitive society has led English law , for better or worse , to adopt the test of self-interest or selfishness as being capable of justifying the deliberate doing of lawful acts which inflict harm . |
| 15 | Meanwhile we should stop pretending that we live in a golden age of literary biography , an art form that all too frequently seems to be founded not so much on spite , as on a fundamental lack of interest in its subject . ’ |
| 16 | And , yes , Edward could point out that we live in a time when the very meaning of the word myth has been debased , that it has come to signify only what is untrue , false , misleading ; and , yes , I could largely agree that it is nevertheless by myths we live , and what matters is how large the contrary truths a myth reconciles in its embrace . |
| 17 | ‘ You know [ wrote a French industrialist 's wife to her sons in 1856 ] that we live in a century when men have value only by their own efforts . |
| 18 | The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament . |
| 19 | If that is what getting engaged does to him , the pity is that we live in a monogamous society ! |
| 20 | Perhaps Lagerfeld was trying to remind us that we live in a harsh world . |
| 21 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 22 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 23 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 25 | They take at face value cases such as this one involving the policewomen , and they really believe that they live in a society that has lost all its civilised values . |
| 26 | Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed . |
| 27 | To set up such a tank containing only the larger species so that they live in a harmonious group requires careful thought . |
| 28 | They will become aware that they live in a world that is changing all the time , and that older people in their lifetimes have often lived through some major changes . |
| 29 | Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex , multicultural society is one thing . |