Example sentences of "are living [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison Santos of Madryn Street , Toxteth , and her family are living with a neighbour because they are too terrified to go back to their home . |
| 2 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 3 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 4 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His ISA concept implies that the populations of the capitalist state are living under a dictatorship , a bourgeois dictatorship . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | I would suggest a counter-proposition : that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information . |
| 11 | It thinks it 's a civil war , a rebellion , and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 14 | Britons who think inflation has been exorcised are living in a dream . |
| 15 | All of us are living in a diaspora twice removed — that is , our ancestors were already immigrants when we were born , and we , or our families , have repeated it again , going this time to the country of our past colonial masters . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 18 | We can see hunger , destitution , torture ; we are living in a state of war . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 24 | They are living in a concentration camp , called ‘ reality ’ . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | To the extent that Catholic Secondary School pupils have received the Sacraments of Initiation and are living in a community of faith , catechesis can validly be said to be a function of the Catholic School . |
| 27 | 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 ? |