Example sentences of "we live in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil government is designed , as long as we live in this world , to cherish and support the external worship of God ; to preserve the pure doctrine of religion , to defend the constitutions of the church , to regulate our lives in a manner requisite for the society of man , to form our manners to civil justice , to promote our concord with each other , and to establish general peace and tranquillity … |
| 2 | We live in the fading twilight of an ‘ overpubbed ’ urban world ; a world which , even within living memory , gave the citizens of a small city like York the choice to drink in a different pub for every day of the year . |
| 3 | ‘ We live in hope , ’ said Jay . |
| 4 | To prevent the spread of infection ( and because we live in a throw-away society ) disposable needles are often used , although if your dog requires prolonged treatment your vet may keep a ‘ permanent ’ set especially for that purpose . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ We live in a society in which all forms of management and leadership , however advised , are under constant challenge … . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We live in a rhythmic world . |
| 8 | Technological advances might mean that we live in an artificial environment with respect to time-cues , but it is a rhythmic environment nevertheless , and our possession of a body clock means that all the advantages that come from the integration of biological and environmental rhythms apply equally to ourselves . |
| 9 | ‘ We live in Biesdorf , ’ Omi said . |
| 10 | ‘ We live in a good country , ’ he said . |
| 11 | We live in a world of uncertainty , where the politicians , church leaders and others have failed . |
| 12 | We live in a world in which one third of the population consumes two thirds of the world 's resources . |
| 13 | We live in a society riddled with loneliness : loneliness in offices , in our comfortable homes , on our estates and in our flats . |
| 14 | We live in a historical period ; written records are kept and we tend to assume that our records are correct and that we can accurately reconstruct the events of the past . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing . |
| 17 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 18 | I thought : we live in a multicultural society , but everything we see is white and stereotyped . |
| 19 | We live in a world of perceptions , not reality . |
| 20 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 21 | As Bishop Edward King , at the opposite end of the English religious spectrum from Nonconformists , noted , ‘ We live in an age of decoration … |
| 22 | We live in a tremendously reactionary era . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | We live in an age of audit ; the anecdotal evidence and zeal which sustained practitioners in the past will no longer be acceptable . |
| 25 | We live in little beach chalets and look out all day on the Mediterranean ; its blueness always surprises me , though I 've seen it so often . |
| 26 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 27 | We live in a world that operates on greed , on aggression , on violence and cruelty . |
| 28 | Different groups in society see the environment and the way we live in it in diverse ways . |
| 29 | We live in the presence of God , seeing things from his perspective . |
| 30 | We live in the knowledge that ‘ the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ , and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit ’ are indeed with us always . |