Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineering recruits are required to show that they know what it is to be exposed to the hard world of reality by gaining direct experience in day-to-day aviation practice . |
| 2 | She must have known that anyone who tries to convey a message in rock music is brushed aside as being pompous or bombastic , because journalists in their King 's Reach Ivory Towers think rock is too sacrosanct to be tainted with the real world . |
| 3 | Operations will then be confined to the English-speaking world — Canada , the UK and Australia . |
| 4 | You 'll be returning to the glamorous world of rock as soon as he returns . |
| 5 | How is an understanding of biological processes to be applied to the social world ? |
| 6 | The knowledge model , if it can be mapped to the physical world , must itself comprise discrete quantities , varying in a quantised ( step-wise ) manner . |
| 7 | The kingdom of Heaven will come in the future in the sense that God will be accepted by the whole world and his rule will be established on the earth . |
| 8 | For all its faults , it can at least be said for the modern world that it has produced a substantial body of articulate opinion that blends passion with compassion in its concern for the impoverished and starving peoples of the world . |
| 9 | But can the same be said about the social world ? |
| 10 | There is , in general , a greater willingness and awareness on the part of teachers that learning , to be effective , needs to be related to the real world beyond the classroom walls . |
| 11 | To put that off , she needed to make headway that would be noticed in the real world . |
| 12 | Evidence has to be collected from the social world around us , and this requires empirical research to be done . |
| 13 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ One or two working party members felt there was no point in taking as many students on to courses if the practice placements were n't available and their skills were n't going to be needed in the new world . ’ |
| 15 | $4m will be going into the Columbian world fair at Seville ; the Dominican Republic is hoping to build a 390-foot lighthouse for $10m ; 12 full-size replica ships will be setting sail for America ( presumably from their commissioning countries ) , and the fifth Genovese Columbian conference will be exhibiting every plant of the New World . |
| 16 | They forget that theory must be rooted in the actual world of experience . " |
| 17 | The peace that the Old World could not keep would be enforced by the New World . |
| 18 | The supracultural dimension of the gospel must be demonstrated in the strife-torn world of today . |
| 19 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 20 | Such traditional systems of documentation began to be undermined in the post-war world by the general spread of the telephone in the office environment and the development of copying . |
| 21 | The whole of year 7 could be devoted to the medieval world but can not be . |
| 22 | In the summer of 1720 the South Sea Bubble burst , and the dream that El Dorado might be found in the outside world faded a little further , though the Company went on endeavouring to use its Utrecht trading privileges for another thirty years . |
| 23 | The sociology of religion does , however , present the researcher with an unusual variety of challenges at a number of different levels in its attempt to understand some of the most powerfully held beliefs and most powerfully motivated actions to be found in the social world throughout its history . |
| 24 | Today , the result of their endeavours can be found throughout the modern world — in industry , religion and amongst the great literary works of our time . |
| 25 | The publicists , popularisers and ideologists were now to be found throughout the western world and wherever there was a local elite attracted by ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 26 | The British , Danes and Irish almost immediately left the ‘ snake ’ , which continued to be troubled by the growing world recession and virtually collapsed in 1973 due to increasing oil prices after the October Arab-Israeli War . |
| 27 | The use of simulation allows the observation of many possible stream patterns , far more than could be observed in the real world . |
| 28 | Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past . |
| 29 | Medvedev called , in October 1988 , for an ‘ up-to-date conception of socialism ’ , one that took into account the diversity of experience of the other socialist countries and indeed the lessons that could be learned from the capitalist world . |
| 30 | In a major speech on 2 September he brought this out : ‘ The policy now adopted by the Indonesian republic must be oriented to the international world . |