Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm . |
| 2 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 3 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 4 | But Michael Oppenheimer , chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund , described it as " mere window-dressing — an attempt to buy off the developing world " . |
| 5 | The roaring of the American boom rang round the Western world where everyone in every hard-pressed country saw the new world as an Aladdin 's cave of American goods , American entertainment and the American style of living . |
| 6 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 7 | As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France . |
| 8 | The principle underlying this figure obtained throughout the ancient world — not only in the classical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East , but among the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe and farther afield as well . |
| 9 | It is estimated that demand in the developing world will increase by some 2.75 times per citizen and that in the developed world some three times , so that the proportion consumed in the tropical world is going to increase . |
| 10 | has been used to identify the sources of white marble used in the Classical world . |
| 11 | And while British viewers do n't have to live in Salford or Walthamstow to relate to the problems faced by characters in Coronation Street or EastEnders , few have the terms of reference to identify with the mythical world of Eldorado . |
| 12 | Scientists carrying out the research concluded that no child born into the modern world can be considered immune from the effects of low-level lead exposure . |
| 13 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 14 | But The Cutting Edge ( Cert P.G. ; General ) , a sort of Dirty Dancing on ice set in the competitive world of international skating , left me cold . |
| 15 | An older term than ‘ formative assessment ’ , diagnostic assessment is a metaphor derived from the medical world . |
| 16 | Leo McKern , Sara Kestelman and Ian Holm star in the BBC Screen Two presentation , The Last Romantics , on Sunday , a powerful story of love and betrayal set in the tranquil world of Cambridge University . |
| 17 | Over 90 per cent of uranium used in the non-Communist world comes from the United States , Canada , Australia and Africa . |
| 18 | Authorities are in agreement that the hylobatids represent a branch sprouting early off the stem leading from the Old World monkeys towards the great apes . |
| 19 | If the shame belongs to the whole world , then why should one particular country — which had already accepted many Jewish refugees — be so frequently expected to bear it ? |
| 20 | The meaning persists in the contemporary world , but the castle , these days , is usually a semi in suburbia with mum , dad and two children . |
| 21 | Many Voices — One World and the movement towards a new information order have tried to concretise and apply the right to communicate in the real world , both on the national and international levels . |
| 22 | Our failure to adjust to the modern world will then become ever more serious . |
| 23 | The communist party considered art an appropriate promotional weapon to communicate with the outside world and started patronising certain artists . |
| 24 | The strongest objection to the Waldheim-Kohl meeting came from the Jewish World Congress , whose director , Elan Steinberg , accused the Chancellor of being ‘ morally thick-skinned ’ . |
| 25 | Ninety per cent of fuel used in the developing world is wood , which is in increasingly short supply . |
| 26 | The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence . |
| 27 | One of the Australians worked in real estate in Hong Kong : ‘ The toughest place to deal in the whole world . ’ |
| 28 | Modernity understood as the modern world in crisis has now hit us with such force that writers of many different political persuasions are addressing the issue ( cf. |
| 29 | Jack 's beautiful pale-brown Bentley was parked in the drive , at the end of the track , at the edge of the wood , with its nose pointing to the outside world , towards freedom . |
| 30 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |