Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] world " in BNC.

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1 A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context .
2 Not surprising , you might think , in animals designed by Darwinian evolution to find associations in the real world .
3 Direct trade with Africa was comparatively small , although the export of trade goods and guns to secure slaves for the New World plantations expanded rapidly after 1780 .
4 There are two ways in which scientists attempt to impose controls on the wayward world in order to learn .
5 Try to relate events to the Third World .
6 The WBC decision to split ranks from the unified world heavyweight scene has made his latest hope , Tony Tucker , certain of an early shot at new champion Lennox Lewis 's title .
7 She was one of five Third World feminist writers the NI had commissioned to visit countries in the rich world and comment on women 's lives there .
8 In the course of development , the child learns to form conceptions of the external world and to act in ways which produce satisfaction in that world , and not just in the mental world .
9 New Zealand continued to build stations after the Second World War .
10 Much of the chemical knowledge , expertise and resources needed to solve problems in the Third World already exists .
11 Geraldine was still thinking about who would want to watch dramas about the Second World War on a Friday night .
12 During 1990-91 Mongolia continued to expand contacts with the industrialized world as well as to develop its relationship with China .
13 Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically .
14 To counteract these attempts and to shift the ‘ correlation of forces ’ further away from the West in these regions the USSR was tempted to seek facilities in the Third World to enhance its development of long-range air and naval capabilities .
15 Of the total money , 38 per cent went to research projects in the third world , 25 per cent to particular species and site projects , and 5 per cent to " debt-for-nature " swaps .
16 Now , when their findings came out that the cell there were cells that appeared to correspond to feature detectors in the real world , a number of theories immediately popped up which tried to take this into account .
17 On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " .
18 Once that knowledge is gained , it can be used to explain events in the natural world , to make predictions about what will happen in the natural world , and thus to control that world and make it behave in ways that are , at least in theory , to the advantage of the controllers .
19 ‘ We think the government of Iran should seize this opportunity to condemn this so-called charity in an effort to normalise relations with the outside world , ’ she said .
20 Who is taking positive measures to prevent mothers in the third world feeding formula made with contaminated water to their babies ?
21 Another serious objection to this HCF kind of approach is that it fails to prepare pupils for the real world , helping them to appreciate the strength of religious conviction and extend to people of all kinds of religious persuasion , including those dubbed as " fundamentalist " or " extremist " , real empathy and desire to understand their positions .
22 Like the third objection to the HCF model , the fourth is that it fails to prepare pupils for the pluralist world with its confusions , contradictions and instability .
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