Example sentences of "we live [prep] a world " in BNC.

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1 It would , in a paradoxical way , be reassuring if we lived in a world of extremes .
2 ‘ 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 ?
3 We live in a world of uncertainty , where the politicians , church leaders and others have failed .
4 We live in a world in which one third of the population consumes two thirds of the world 's resources .
5 We live in a world of perceptions , not reality .
6 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 …
7 We live in a world that operates on greed , on aggression , on violence and cruelty .
8 We live in a world like the Gandavyuha — a place of transparent beauty .
9 Yet , at the same time , we live in a world which in reality is predominantly made up of couples and families .
10 ‘ I believe we live in a world which is marred deeply by crudity and vulgarity , bereft of beauty , culturally impoverished to an amazing degree .
11 We live in a world where food temptations flaunt themselves all around us .
12 Living in modernity facilitates this belief because we live in a world of rapidly changing fashions and technologies .
13 We live in a world where there is an enormous pressure on the stability of marriage .
14 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 ] .
15 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 .
16 ‘ Ah , yes , but we live in a world gone mad .
17 Or , as Plato writes , we live in a world of dreams , the realities are beyond us . ’
18 We live in a world where there are few easy profits and many easy losses to be made , especially when the wrong advice is given .
19 We live in a world of unimaginable plenty , unbelievable surplus .
20 We live in a world of surplus but ca n't bring ourselves to believe that we do .
21 We live in a world that is not developing uniformly .
22 Gary Duckers , of insurance brokers Richard Bamber , said : ‘ We live in a world of no-claim bonuses , not no-blame bonuses . ’
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