Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] world " in BNC.

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1 However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world .
2 Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation .
3 Over the past two decades , the Commission and Court have been asked by aggrieved individuals to rule upon matters such as the rights of prisoners to communicate with the outside world and police interrogation methods .
4 The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire .
5 Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm .
6 Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk .
7 The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression .
8 Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade .
9 In addition , data presented at the second world congress of stroke in Washington , DC , last September showed efficacy of ganglioside treatment in acute stroke in two separate large multicentre studies .
10 The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it .
11 The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad .
12 People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world .
13 I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means .
14 However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government .
15 or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 .
16 But Michael Oppenheimer , chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund , described it as " mere window-dressing — an attempt to buy off the developing world " .
17 The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals .
18 Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War .
19 New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 .
20 I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear .
21 The roaring of the American boom rang round the Western world where everyone in every hard-pressed country saw the new world as an Aladdin 's cave of American goods , American entertainment and the American style of living .
22 In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation .
23 But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) .
24 As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France .
25 Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development .
26 Kids live in the same world as adults , the advertising , the pressures are there , and I think we , also this important point that it 's women 's health who 's already most disadvantaged , that 's women on low incomes with very
27 The two main sources of social data come from the inner world of the library and the outside world of living people .
28 The principle underlying this figure obtained throughout the ancient world — not only in the classical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East , but among the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe and farther afield as well .
29 There are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world .
30 erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million .
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