Example sentences of "the [noun] that [pers pn] live [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probably the case that we live in a time when the cultural return of homosexuality exacerbates , even intensifies , the psychic return of repressed homosexuality . |
| 2 | Some of the very best and sharpest critics of postmodernism have put forward a strikingly similar , yet quite powerful , argument against the claim that we live in some important sense in a postmodern era . |
| 3 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 4 | They all owe their existence to the fact that they live on islands such as Borneo , Sulawesi and the Philippines , where they have had to face less competition . |
| 5 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 6 | Precise definition of what is and is not a legitimate purpose is probably not possible , but the fact that we live in a competitive or acquisitive society has led English law , for better or worse , to adopt the test of self-interest or selfishness as being capable of justifying the deliberate doing of lawful acts which inflict harm . |
| 7 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 8 | Living about 12 miles from our nearest store my discount is largely , if not completely , used up by fuel costs and this is made worse by the fact that I live within two miles of two competitor stores . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't broadcast the fact that I live in a castle . |
| 10 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |