Example sentences of "[vb -s] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 2 | Global Change ’ confronts the world 's environmental problems . |
| 3 | I 'd choose somebody who Granta in fact publish : John Berger , not because he has Greene 's grace or narrative command , but in the way he confronts the world . |
| 4 | The problem is that the massive increase in objective culture has not been appropriated by the subject in such a way that material goods become the instrument of the subject 's self-development through the sublation of its own projections ; instead , the subject confronts the world of material goods as an alien sphere . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the US market-place drives the world of Personal Computers . |
| 6 | The woman receives the world through her womb . |
| 7 | There is little great poetry that has not come from the frost of sorrow , and this is the supreme compensation that the creative man has this faculty of distilling from the very substance of sorrow , a beauty that transforms the world into paradise . |
| 8 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 9 | The sa nyasin seeks release from sa sāra , the endless round of birth , death and rebirth : he renounces the world in favour of mystical union with God . |
| 10 | And while it may be that the tragic case of the disappearing baronet is one that appears to defy all logic , it is not a case that defies the world 's greatest detective . |
| 11 | Just because we have , a so called civilized nation that we live in that destroys the world , that destroys animals that destroys the environment we 're living in ! |
| 12 | She understands the world through trivial fictions , and is trapped within a child 's view of history and society . |
| 13 | ‘ Lee thinks the world of that dog , ’ said Lee 's Mum . |
| 14 | Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them . |
| 15 | ‘ He thinks the world 's out to get him , ’ he told Matron . |
| 16 | The Chief thinks the world about me . |
| 17 | Pretty perennial plants : BBC Gardeners ' World editor Pasco thinks the world of globe artichokes |
| 18 | ‘ They know each other well and the prince thinks the world of her but their relationship is purely platonic , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Annabel thinks the world of her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll be in touch , Lizzy , he thinks the world of you . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs K. thinks the world of Kettering . |
| 22 | She thinks the world of you — and you 're her brother . |
| 23 | No wonder Jack Charlton thinks the world of his defenders . |
| 24 | We have two children , aged eight and six , and I know my husband thinks the world of them , but he is carrying on living the life of a single man , with no thought for me . |
| 25 | We have two children , aged eight and six , and I know my husband thinks the world of them , but he is carrying on living the life of a single man , with no thought for me . |
| 26 | She thinks the world of you . |
| 27 | Captain Kendrick ( centre ) , displays the World Students Shield after New Zealand beat Argentina 30–21 in the 1988 final . |
| 28 | Guinness Enterprises includes The Gleneagles Hotel and Guinness Publishing , which produces the world renowned Guinness Book of Records . |
| 29 | Produces the world 's most distinctive and one of the world 's most widely distributed beers . |
| 30 | The enigmatic Rowland flies the world , meeting leaders , smoothing lines of communications and setting up deals . |