Example sentences of "we live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You can not always guarantee that you will always be in control of what you are doing as we live in a culture that is soaked in violence , and so it seems to think that violence is acceptable , even normal . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ We live in a culture which actually supports and creates these addictions . |
| 33 | My Dad works on a farm in Maltside , and we live in a cottage that belongs to the farmer . |
| 34 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 35 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 36 | We live in a society riddled with loneliness : loneliness in offices , in our comfortable homes , on our estates and in our flats . |
| 37 | We live in a society that is , to all intents , totalitarian . |
| 38 | In Britain we live in a society of massive and growing inequality over which the Tories ( and Labour before them ) presided . |
| 39 | We frequently fall victim to this relative mentality because we live in a society that has nothing else by which to determine ethics , values or the worth of a person . |
| 40 | But it does n't work like that : we live in a society where pornography takes most of the burden of talking about sex and where talking about sex is considered pornographic . |
| 41 | We live in a society which prizes the freedom of the individual , but we are short on means to teach her how to handle it . |
| 42 | Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments . |
| 43 | By contrast , we live in a society which has largely abandoned rules , both personally and collectively . |
| 44 | We live in a society riddled with discrimination and social workers are as likely to exhibit prejudice as any other group . |
| 45 | It , it ought not to matter , but unfortunately I think it does , I think we live in a society where the visual appearance is every thing . |
| 46 | We live in a society which greatly enjoys strawberries — our aesthetic appreciation of them is high and we will go to great lengths to acquire them . |
| 47 | We live in a society where a mass of information is collected for administrative purposes . |
| 48 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 49 | This county council has recognised that in Leicestershire we live in a society . |
| 50 | ‘ We live in a society which is increasingly recreational and recreational use of drugs like Ecstasy is going to continue growing . |
| 51 | ‘ But we live in a society where we are ruled by the clock . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | We live in a time when television tells us what our world is like and what lifestyles other people have and we can copy . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | We live in a galaxy that is about one hundred thousand light-years across and is slowly rotating ; the stars in its spiral arms orbit around its centre about once every several hundred million years . |
| 56 | We live in a community in which there are people who believe in a variety of faiths or no faith at all . |
| 57 | The radical feminist argument is , briefly , that we live in a patriarchy — a system in which men maintain power over women . |
| 58 | We live in a climate where heat and light are essential , not luxuries . |
| 59 | We live in a house of treasure but some disease of the eyes has blinded us so that we search always for vulgar and expensive toys . |
| 60 | We live in a world of uncertainty , where the politicians , church leaders and others have failed . |