Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 2 | For obvious reasons we have a close professional tie with those of you in the educational world . |
| 3 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 4 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 5 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 6 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 7 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 8 | Those of us in the disabled world are weary of words without action . |
| 9 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ I do work with him in the commercial world — but I have no involvement in his politics . ’ |
| 11 | God raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world . |
| 12 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 13 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 14 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 15 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 16 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 17 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |