Example sentences of "living [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 2 | In the rest of the region , Israel Radio 's coverage allows those living in the Arab world to hear about events that are censored by their own governments . |
| 3 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |
| 4 | ‘ But we 're living in the modern world ! ’ |
| 5 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 6 | The events and circumstances surrounding such plots are difficult to control and organise because the characters are supposedly living in the real world . |
| 7 | It produces the archetypal image of the Christian , afraid of life , always trying to climb back into the Garden of Eden , by creating a world of fantasy if necessary to inhabit at the expense of living in the real world . |
| 8 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 9 | He was living in the real world beyond my contorting imagination . |
| 10 | If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery , he is not living in the real world . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State accept that people living in the real world question the Government 's industrial policy ? |
| 12 | But if that 's an incentive they 're not living in the real world . |
| 13 | ‘ Anybody who says there is not a direct connection between people 's health and unemployment is not living in the real world . |
| 14 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 15 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 16 | Referring to the Rhyl Labour Party campaign to persuade the public to send preprinted ‘ Deeds Not Words ’ postcards to him at the House of Commons , Mr Richards said : ‘ Anybody who thinks that sending postcards and petitions is going to change the price of bread is not living in the real world . ’ |
| 17 | On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world . |
| 18 | Excluded from the political process in their newly adopted lands , where they were not allowed to vote , and anxious to ensure a higher standard of living in the New World than they had enjoyed at home , they were instrumental in the creation of early workers ' organisations and political parties in Latin America . |