Example sentences of "we live in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stairs were a formidable obstacle to son Michael , also , since we lived in a bungalow . |
| 2 | If we lived in a society where such specialization had little significance , this difference might not matter However . |
| 3 | ‘ My father was a white-collar dental worker , we lived in a council house sure , but I never knew hunger or deprivation ever ! |
| 4 | I thought we lived in a democracy and valued freedom of choice . |
| 5 | We lived in a maisonette — the top three floors ; and the bottom three floors were offices . |
| 6 | We lived in a house at the end of an eighteenth-century mews , and my son Simon was born in November 1959 , within a few months of our moving to Windsor . |
| 7 | We lived in a period of superstition and dread . |
| 8 | We lived in a town with ten thousand others . |
| 9 | It would , in a paradoxical way , be reassuring if we lived in a world of extremes . |
| 10 | We lived in a flat at Canonmills overlooking the Water of Leith . |
| 11 | We live in a litigation minded world and liability at law can be very expensive . |
| 12 | ‘ What matters is we live in a building we love . ’ |
| 13 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We live in a day when not only the gift of prophecy but also the ministry of the prophet is being restored to the church . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We live in a culture which actually supports and creates these addictions . |
| 21 | My Dad works on a farm in Maltside , and we live in a cottage that belongs to the farmer . |
| 22 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 24 | We live in a society riddled with loneliness : loneliness in offices , in our comfortable homes , on our estates and in our flats . |
| 25 | We live in a society that is , to all intents , totalitarian . |
| 26 | In Britain we live in a society of massive and growing inequality over which the Tories ( and Labour before them ) presided . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments . |