Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] world [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 2 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 3 | This most unusual book tells the intriguing story of e library of Alexandria which was one of the wonders of the Ancient World and still fascinates Western culture over 2000 years later . |
| 4 | Political ecologists-Greens-are radicals in the true sense of the word , going to the roots of the problems that beset our planet ; resource depletion , militarism , the exploitation of the Third World and so on . |
| 5 | Opals were totally unknown to the early civilizations of the Old World and only came to the knowledge of the Mediterranean peoples as an outcome of Roman military expansion into the Balkans . |
| 6 | In the first place , it had to compete with already established religions in regions where it was trying to gain a foothold — with the religions of Syria , Phoenicia , Asia Minor , Greece , Egypt , the whole of the Mediterranean world and beyond , the Roman Empire . |
| 7 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 8 | The Second Vatican Council ( 1962–65 ) , however , redirected the church 's interests towards the temporal world and especially issues such as justice , human rights and freedom . |
| 9 | He craves the simplicity and innocence of a pastoral world but also wishes to enjoy the luxuries of his own . |
| 10 | Altdorf is also the centre of magic lore and its eight Colleges of Magic are justly famous throughout the Old World and beyond . |
| 11 | The id is not a managerial agency , it does not have to make decisions , it is not in contact with the real world and therefore it can have its cake and eat it . |
| 12 | During 1990-91 Mongolia continued to expand contacts with the industrialized world as well as to develop its relationship with China . |
| 13 | the state is extending its intelligence-gathering capabilities into the upper world as well as the under world and the lumpenproletariat . |
| 14 | The objective of a company taking advantage of these provisions , therefore , is to conceal as much of its activities as possible from the outside world and therefore maintain a degree of confidentiality . |
| 15 | Today , although virtually cut off from the outside world and still subject to army harassment , the community remains determined to stay put . |
| 16 | The Court , and by extension Paris , would become the focus of all Europe , and even for the whole civilized world , for the Emperor , conscious of the huge changes in the speed and ease of travel which were taking place , foresaw an influx of visitors not just from the Old World but also from the New . |
| 17 | Further reductions in energy intensity will take place , the actual level will depend on energy prices , the changing balance of energy intensive to non-energy intensive industries in the industrialised world and simply the changes in the habits of energy users and their consciousness or otherwise of the potential of ‘ the fifth fuel ’ . |
| 18 | Economic models are particularly useful since millions of daily transactions are carried out in the real world and so some means must be found of expressing the essential characteristics of the problem at hand . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 21 | ‘ Candidates will be required to show that they have looked at marketing in the real world as well as through the limiting perspective of the texts . |
| 22 | Smoking is known to be an important risk factor for development of squamous carcinomas of the oesophagus in the Western world and thus could be a likely candidate for adenocarcinomatous change . |
| 23 | ‘ You get young people who appear to be socially confident and assured in the outside world but inside they are remarkably immature and insecure . |
| 24 | For twenty-five years Britain took little interest in the outside world and even managed to remain at peace with France . |
| 25 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |
| 26 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 27 | If economic catastrophe is added to the political disintegration , the consequences for Europe could be dire , not only in terms of the millions of refugees who are already predicted , but possibly through the sale of nuclear weapons to any body of people or any Government in the third world or elsewhere who have the hard currency to pay for them . |
| 28 | Third , there was much concern over the continuity of oil and gas movements out of the Gulf area , on which a host of consumers , in the Third World as well as OECD countries , depended . |
| 29 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 30 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |