Example sentences of "[art] world a " in BNC.

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1 So short a time ago they had found and shared a grassy path in a brief Eden of summerblue skies , tapestry green and flowered meadows , every day a delight , the world a beautiful old master cleaned in the zephyr of Lucy 's being .
2 The nominalist impulse , therefore , which originates from the attempt to make generality in the world a creation of mind — thus allowing the extra-mental world to consist only of particulars — eventually leads to trying to explain the powers of the mind entirely in terms of the work of particulars .
3 And we know from opinion polls that most people now want Britain to play its part too in making the world a safer place .
4 In fact the United States boasted of its capacity for ‘ overkill ’ — another euphemism in the nuclear vocabulary — as if to wipe out one 's adversary several times over could only make the world a safer place .
5 For a small market town , Shrewsbury has managed to give the world a very motley crew , from Charles Darwin to Private Eye magazine — the Eye 's begetters first started working together on the Shrewsbury School magazine .
6 It is a process which enables people from tiny communities who have important ideas about how to make their communities , the nation , and the world a peaceful and humane home for mankind to translate those ideas into action . ’
7 How much better it will be to say to people , ‘ We can ensure that the children you have will be the best possible children , the ones with the best inheritance , the ones who will make the world a really good place to live in instead of the misery it so often is . ’
8 The fact is that nowhere on earth sketches such a dramatic and romantically loaded countenance like the north-west of Scotland , and believe me , I 've poked around the world a bit .
9 Only man 's will to triumph over life survives , making the world a human jungle in which religion is at best evolutionary humanism .
10 John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’
11 The TMI accident effectively destroyed this relative complacency , and throughout the world a great deal of analytical and experimental work has been conducted on small LOCAs .
12 Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ?
13 Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other .
14 Dogs find the world a place of infinite aromas ; bats , whales and dolphins use acoustic sonar .
15 This means that at any frontier anywhere in the world a border official who has at his disposal a piece of equipment which is already widely and internationally available will be able instantaneously to record the personal details from a passport without the holder realising it , and the record will be automatically read into and stored by a computer .
16 Slavonic legend has it that at the time of the Creation of the World a group of malignant spirits staged a revolt against Svarog , the sky god .
17 JOHN Major is poised to do his bit to make the world a safer place in 1993 .
18 It would be good to get out of Tollemarche , out of Alberta , and see the world a bit .
19 Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place .
20 She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again .
21 The faith is in the belief that women , left to themselves , would make the world a beautiful place to live .
22 Like Jitters , she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat .
23 COR , WHAT A THIGHFUL : Fergie stretches out on her sun lounger and gives the world a look at what just what kind of shape she 's in
24 That apart , South Africa did give the best two sides in the world a game .
25 In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in .
26 They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people .
27 He still believes that there are lots of ways dentists can make the world a better place .
28 At the last holiday resort in the world a small group of guests are cautiously testing the air .
29 With the best will in the world a bassoon can not begin to express itself in the same terms as a viola da gamba and when two of the three melodic parts are conceived for strings a precious dimension is lost by substituting woodwind .
30 While words could be flashed around the world a century ago , the quantity of data traffic has increased on a scale comparable to the motor traffic increase in the same period .
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