Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 2 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 3 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 5 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 6 | It would appear that , with the numerous methods of preserving food which abound in the Western World and the food industry 's obsession for pristine packaging , food poisoning would be a thing of the past . |
| 7 | The mountains are riven with magic because Ulthuan itself acts as focal point for the winds of magical energy which blow across the known world from the Northern Wastes . |
| 8 | Holists and individualists may both be said to have an overarching interest in understanding the mechanisms which operate in the social world , but beneath this unifying umbrella their eyes are fixed on different features on the landscape , and their respective theories are to be judged in relation to the tasks they set themselves . |
| 9 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |
| 10 | Water and carbon dioxide are the two starting materials from which green plants manufacture the sugars which are themselves further elaborated by plant and animal cells into the incredible array of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules which exist in the natural world . |
| 11 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 12 | Considering geography as the description of the changes that take place or have taken place in or at the surface of the earth Linton ( 1965 ) suggested that any changes which occur in the real world imply that work has been done and energy expended . |
| 13 | Your heart must melt in love , and your eyes become two rivers , if you aspire to the other world . |
| 14 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 15 | We are looking for individuals who are adaptable and flexible , who live in the real world of the present and can cope adequately with whatever problems and difficulties it presents . |
| 16 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 17 | People who come from the outside world inhabit the periphery , where they have no cattle and live an inferior life . |
| 18 | He denounced the ‘ prophets of misfortune ’ who see in the modern world ‘ nothing but betrayal and ruination . |
| 19 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 20 | The basic claim of the Principle is plausible enough : in constructing a fictional universe we rely on what we know about the actual world unless instructed otherwise . |
| 21 | What happens once we get beyond the comforting world of the census and the diplomatic archive ? |
| 22 | This argument may be exemplified by considering one of the mechanisms through which we deal with the everyday world . |
| 23 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 24 | ‘ As you say , we live in the real world . ’ |
| 25 | It 's important to preserve the old , but we live in the real world . |
| 26 | In astrology , the two-series of aspects ( 2,4,8 etc ) is connected with the way we relate to the outside world , whereas the three-series ( 3,9 etc ) is more about internal harmony ; this may provide a clue to the meanings underlying the use of number in sacred geometry . |
| 27 | The tale of L'Esquiriel goes on to tell of how the girl is approached by a young man playing with his erect penis ; she asks him what he has there — a squirrel , is the answer ; does she want it ? — yes please , let me hold it ; not yet , put your hand on it carefully ; it 's hot ! — ah , it 's just got out of its nest — and so on , until , after further euphemisms and foreplay , we return to the blunt world of crude speech as the squirrel enters the girl 's con to seek from her stomach the nuts she ate the day before . |
| 28 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 29 | They interact with the natural world in complex , ill-understood ways — ecology is the youngest science . |
| 30 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |