Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two main sources of social data come from the inner world of the library and the outside world of living people . |
| 2 | An older term than ‘ formative assessment ’ , diagnostic assessment is a metaphor derived from the medical world . |
| 3 | Ingredients obtained from the Third World , providing work and sustenance to underprivileged societies , go into products which are sold to the more fortunate , the profits of which go into her educational programme aimed at making people more aware of the critical issues of our times . |
| 4 | Authorities are in agreement that the hylobatids represent a branch sprouting early off the stem leading from the Old World monkeys towards the great apes . |
| 5 | The strongest objection to the Waldheim-Kohl meeting came from the Jewish World Congress , whose director , Elan Steinberg , accused the Chancellor of being ‘ morally thick-skinned ’ . |
| 6 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 7 | It could , however , easily leave the impression , especially with Western children , that religion is a matter of irrational feelings and sentimentality divorced from the real world and divorced from truth . |
| 8 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 9 | Such people think that native Australian species are usually driven extinct by superior competitors or enemies introduced from the outside world , because the native species are ‘ older ’ , ‘ out of date ’ models , in the same position vis-d-vis invading species as a Jutland battleship contending with a nuclear submarine . |
| 10 | I have a built in um caution of those who wander in the groves of academe I always feel they 're a bit divorced from the real world |
| 11 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 12 | It was also the place where news came from the outside world either by telegraph — provided on the railways long before post offices began transmitting telegrams — or by newspaper or word of mouth . |
| 13 | When the colonists returned from the New World they found their homeland drowned and their kinsmen dead . |
| 14 | the friars discovered that the Indians were deeply impressed by sacred images created with the newest artistic techniques brought from the Old World … |
| 15 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 16 | There is an informative chapter on new conventional weaponry , and an analysis of the arms race from the Third World viewpoint . |
| 17 | I remember sitting mesmerized in front of my Dad 's small black-and-white television as Ali 's voice roared from the huge world outside and through the TV 's rattling three-inch speaker . |
| 18 | Carswell describes an ‘ informal coterie ’ which met at Crosland 's house , ‘ with a standing membership of Labour sympathisers drawn from the educational world ’ , and to which senior civil servants were occasionally invited . |
| 19 | If Nature had replaced God as the power that had created the human race , the message derived from the new world view was still the same as far as most people were concerned . |
| 20 | The pattern of raw materials coming from the developing world to this and other developed countries for production and sale of finished goods , often back to the developing world , has changed . |
| 21 | Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation . |
| 22 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 23 | The last Elf army departs from the Old World , leaving behind a few hardy colonists who refused to go . |
| 24 | Tallis-Holly watched and soon three riders passed from the human world , an old man , a young man , a woman with a face like stone . |
| 25 | She could illustrate her arguments with clever examples drawn from the real world of commerce . |
| 26 | The problem stems from the 1979 World Administrative Radio Conference , which was held in Geneva . |
| 27 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 28 | Here , again , the situation is artificial , and the questioning some way removed from the real world . |
| 29 | Various colonies exist under voluntary foundation where the mentally handicapped can live useful and happy lives , to some extent sheltered from the outside world but permitted a considerable degree of independence and self-determination . |
| 30 | The Network Queuing System , which Sequent obtained from the supercomputing world , provides load balancing and dynamic job bidding . |