Example sentences of "[verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three are critically influenced by and in turn influence the world structures of security , finance and knowledge ( Cox , 1987 ; Strange , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Beneath a vaulted whitewashed ceiling and surrounded by strange blocks and squares which artists said were ‘ pictures , ’ the playwright , Vaclav Havel , met the world 's press . |
| 3 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 4 | So our grand scheme for utopianizing the world was settled in two scuffles . |
| 5 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 6 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 7 | Although he has travelled the world , Edinburgh and the family memories it evokes , are still profoundly important to Graeme Souness . |
| 8 | The owner , who had recently died , had travelled the world . |
| 9 | So impressive are these abstract figures that their creators have travelled the world to be part of what almost amounts to an International Circus of skilled performers , all by invitation and with expenses paid ! |
| 10 | George wanted to obtain shapes that were visually stimulating in the sky and has been so successful that , since his start in Hawaii , he has travelled the world , influencing many other like-minded free spirits . |
| 11 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 12 | From Oxford he 's travelled the world on a lifetime of adventure … |
| 13 | Bradley who has travelled the world with his accordion sets the pace in more than 36 Irish tunes including Village Where I Went to School and The Galway Shawl . |
| 14 | Mrs Ashton used to sing with the London-based Salvation Army Songsters and has travelled the world with them , says Mr MacConachie . |
| 15 | This war is poisoning the world . |
| 16 | Bosnia would survive as a constitutional fiction , allowing the world to save face . |
| 17 | Almost all the coral which once surrounded Japan 's southern islands has been destroyed by pollution caused by soil erosion , and rising sea temperatures threaten to kill the world 's remaining blue coral . |
| 18 | Yeah , one bomb 's enough to kill the world |
| 19 | Well , not to kill the world , but they they there are enough bombs in existence at the present time to obliterate the world about three or four times over so we 're told , so we read no snow out here at all Danny is there ? |
| 20 | The biblical account of Adam naming the world can easily be applied to the mass media . |
| 21 | It constitutes an offering to the Gods , or universal forces , to sustain them in their task of maintaining the world , directing its manifold generative activities and at the same time ensuring protection against the sometimes malevolent forces of the Graha , or nine planets . |
| 22 | ( Also , as we shall see in chapter eight , Kant divided the world of metaphysics from the world of the senses and created havoc for theology and philosophy generally . ) |
| 23 | WHEN the zoologists of the mid-nineteenth century divided the world and its flora and fauna into six zoogeographical regions ( see Introduction ) , the boundaries of most of these zones were self-evident . |
| 24 | By assigning such a determining role to classical instruments Bohr divided the world into two , the uncertain quantum world and the objectifying world of measuring instruments . |
| 25 | There undoubtedly existed in Nizan 's mind a clearly articulated political ethic during this period , an ethic which divided the world between those forces defending peace , culture , oppressed nations , democratic rights and freedoms , and those forces advocating war , barbarism , the destruction of culture , the oppression of nation states and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms . |
| 26 | The Jews divided the world into themselves and the Gentiles ; the latter were the bad lot . |
| 27 | The Rome Plan of 1963 , revised in the Mexico City Plan of 1967 , divided the world into thirty-four communications zones . |
| 28 | Such Methodenstreite ( battles of methods ) divided the world of the social scientists , but in so far as they entered the natural sciences — even the biological ones on the sensitive issue of evolution — they reflected an intrusion of ideological preferences rather than professional debate . |
| 29 | JAPANESE engineers claim to be on the verge of building the world 's most efficient Stirling , or heat ’ exchange , engine . |
| 30 | United Solar Systems Corp , a joint venture of Canon Inc and Energy Conversion Devices Inc , Troy , Michigan , is to start building the world 's biggest solar cell manufacturing facility in Newport News , Virginia this year : the $30m plant will start operating by the end of next year and create more than 300 new jobs by 1995 , producing photovoltaic panels and systems with a total capacity of 10MW per year . |