Example sentences of "[to-vb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah , one bomb 's enough to kill the world |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Eliot was unable to renounce the world he knew . |
| 5 | Ceolwulf may genuinely have wished to renounce the world . |
| 6 | An archaeologist who has transformed the way people think about his area of study ; a communicator who can make an enthralling TV programme ; a lover of contemporary art who has persuaded the Fellows of his Cambridge college at least to tolerate biannual sculpture shows ( one of which involved digging up the hallowed lawns ) ; and now , since his peerage which gives him the forum of Britain 's Upper House , a politician , with strong views on how to preserve the world 's history as encapsulated in its archaeology : Colin Renfrew at fifty-five has an enviable career and range of interests . |
| 7 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 8 | The Mugen-Honda V10 engine , currently used by Footwork , is an evolution of the Honda power-unit which helped McLaren to claim the world championships in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 9 | Yet , with one foot on each side of the rap gap , his power to affect the world which killed Donald White is very real . |
| 10 | Because the , the market becomes much smaller , right , there is , world trade in agricultural products has fallen relatively speaking , right , as a result , that market is going to be very , very volatile , it only takes say er , bad harvest in Argentina , or er , Australia , in one country , that does n't have support programmes , to affect the world market substantially , because that one supplier is now relatively large , because most major erm , countries are self , are now self sufficient . |
| 11 | Dutch to the bone , his ambition was to paint the world realistically . |
| 12 | Kenny Schaefer aims to gatecrash the world 's top ten by beating York 's Commonwealth supermiddleweight champion Henry Wharton on Thursday . |
| 13 | While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister . |
| 14 | It took two workers to carry the world 's largest aircraft engine igniter to the designer — who said that the component agreed with the specifications , and approved it . |
| 15 | They exist , theorists believe , because they help us to see the world as it really is . |
| 16 | We need to know how to see the world as the Christian Fathers saw it ; and the purpose of reascending to origins is that we should be able to return , with greater spiritual knowledge , to our own situation . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 18 | The main block is that the London-based mandarins of the BCS still appear to see the world from the seventies standpoint of the large data processing installation or university department , full of Cobol or Fortran programmers , churning out hand-crafted systems for mainframes . |
| 19 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 20 | Some 15,000 spectators — mostly from California — had come to see the world 's greatest horse , who had top weight of nine stone three pounds in a field of eleven . |
| 21 | And she had lost the ability to see the world without being aware of being aware of it . |
| 22 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 23 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 24 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 25 | People have always travelled to see the world and to find out how other people live . |
| 26 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 27 | It is an age-old heresy to see the world as a battleground between the forces of good and evil . |
| 28 | ‘ Let her go , ’ they might say , ‘ give her a chance to see the world , after all who is she going to meet round here ? ’ |
| 29 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 30 | The couple had encouraged and followed their son 's sporting progress right across South Africa , but they were n't able to afford the trip to Australia to see the World Cup challenge . |