Example sentences of "we live [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live on a lighthouse — it 's our job ! ’ |
| 2 | It 's not the fact we live on a council estate , more likely to have |
| 3 | ‘ No , but we live at a sort of peace with each other , which is good . ’ |
| 4 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 6 | We live in a litigation minded world and liability at law can be very expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ What matters is we live in a building we love . ’ |
| 8 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We live in a culture which actually supports and creates these addictions . |
| 16 | My Dad works on a farm in Maltside , and we live in a cottage that belongs to the farmer . |
| 17 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 19 | We live in a society riddled with loneliness : loneliness in offices , in our comfortable homes , on our estates and in our flats . |
| 20 | We live in a society that is , to all intents , totalitarian . |
| 21 | In Britain we live in a society of massive and growing inequality over which the Tories ( and Labour before them ) presided . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet we live in a society in which there are very great pressures on us to keep those subjects in watertight compartments . |
| 26 | By contrast , we live in a society which has largely abandoned rules , both personally and collectively . |
| 27 | We live in a society riddled with discrimination and social workers are as likely to exhibit prejudice as any other group . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We live in a society where a mass of information is collected for administrative purposes . |