Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1950 , 4.2 million m 3 were exported to the developed world , in 1980 some 66 million m3 , and this could be 95 million m 3 by the end of the century . |
| 2 | Some advances were recorded in the colonial world , but the most promising revolutionary movement , in China , was bloodily suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 . |
| 3 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 4 | Outstanding silverware was fabricated in the Classical world . |
| 5 | Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world . |
| 6 | AT THIS moment what was happening in the outside world , for a cultural climate is never separate from events ? |
| 7 | The day-to-day life of an RAF station went on as usual , no matter what was happening in the big world outside . |
| 8 | He was living in the real world beyond my contorting imagination . |
| 9 | I did not know this during his lifetime , and used to think him wanting in originality because his mind was absorbed in the mathematical world . ’ |
| 10 | The " ideal village " was separated from the commercialism , moral pollution , and degradation of the city ; home was separated from the outside world and its neighbours by walls , drives and privet hedges . |
| 11 | A rough diamond in his earlier years , he has now become a sophisticated centre who was drafted into the Irish World Cup squad , although he languished on the bench and was never called upon . |
| 12 | He was speaking of the unreal world in which some of his friends here seem to live . |
| 13 | Before long , I was introduced to the hysterical world of balletomania and had had several overnight trips to Sadlers Wells theatre to queue up for the cheap seats , once even queueing all night . |
| 14 | When Jeremiah fled to Egypt he went to Tahpanhes ( 43.7 ; 44.1 ) which was known to the Greek world under the name of Daphne and was probably already garrisoned by Greek mercenaries , as it certainly was a little later under King Amasis ( 570–526 ) . |
| 15 | The idea of the boy Scout movement soon spread and was imitated throughout the civilised world . |
| 16 | The general election of 1945 was in some ways only a consequential recognition of the revolution which took place under , and inside , the Coalition Government at the height of World War II , and was announced to the outside world by a cloud of White Papers — on planning , social insurance , employment , a national health service — much as the election of a new Pope is first evinced by the smoke from the burning ballot papers . |
| 17 | If Britain was to survive in the new world of rival empires she must look to the fitness of her population , both for the military and for the economic struggle . |
| 18 | In the case of the Regency , there is also an extensive coverage of landscape and garden design where the house interior was extended into the outside world by means of French windows , conservatories and a whole new range of formal features and mass-produced ornament . |
| 19 | In the women 's semi-finals , Devoy was tested by the sixth-seeded world junior champion , England 's Cassandra Jackman . |
| 20 | In no time , I was established in the small world of the university as lecturer . |
| 21 | Of similar champion qualities but without the rough and tumble approach of the male Connors , is the feminine German , Steffi Graf , who was born around the time that Connors was striding into the competitive world of senior international tennis . |