Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airlife have produced a revised edition of the Microlight Flying Manual , that seminal tome by Ron Campbell and John Jones which looks at the aeronautical world strictly from the perspective of pilots who are aiming at a Group D licence . |
| 2 | The reading material should include material which relates to the real world , such as labels , captions , notices , children 's newspapers , books of instructions , plans and maps , diagrams , computer print-out and visual display . |
| 3 | But the real point is that , in contemporary Western society , the network of relations within the domestic household is built on an evaluation of exchange transactions which is , in certain respects , just the converse of that which operates in the capitalist world of wage relationships outside . |
| 4 | This is the author 's own statement of intent in the Introduction : Ryan sees the essence of fictionality as an act of " recentering " , whereby the world of reference of a text is shifted from the actual world to an alternative possible world , which functions as the actual world of the universe projected by the text ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 5 | They are : ( 1 ) the relationship between psychology and biology and the possibility of dispensing with psychology altogether once physiology has been developed sufficiently ; ( 2 ) the value of studies on non-human species ; ( 3 ) the degree of functional specialization in the sub-areas of the brain and the ways of analysing and describing those functions ; ( 4 ) the way we are responding to the challenges of cognitive psychology ; and ( 5 ) the importance of being able to explain what happens in the real world , rather than just the laboratory . |
| 6 | Generalization from one set of experimental conditions is daunting enough , but the real aim of a theory is to allow us to generalize to what happens in the real world . |
| 7 | Now we have the ocean and the atmosphere and we can go and we go forward and , in a good year , if we 're lucky , the way the model evolves with the ocean driving the atmosphere and the atmosphere driving the ocean , mimics what happens in the real world and so we can make a prediction . |
| 8 | This process of abstraction is intended to focus on those elements which are the most important in explaining what happens in the real world . |
| 9 | Erm , wh most of these criticisms would become far more exaggerated or far more relevant if you considered what happens in the real world . |
| 10 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 11 | Indeed , for most of human history we have tended to do the reverse , to use the analogy of the human mind to explain what happens in the physical world , an approach known as ‘ animism ’ . |
| 12 | They are , so to speak , tied to their own tail — an intriguing thought if one grants that what happens in the social world depends on what people expect to happen . |