Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 2 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 3 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 4 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 5 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 6 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 7 | Your heart must melt in love , and your eyes become two rivers , if you aspire to the other world . |
| 8 | Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world . |
| 9 | The underground happened everywhere simultaneously : it was simply what you did in the H-bomb world if you were , by nature , creative and concerned for humanity as a whole … |
| 10 | ( ‘ Why did you come to the New World ? ’ one conquistador was once asked . |
| 11 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 12 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 13 | The basic claim of the Principle is plausible enough : in constructing a fictional universe we rely on what we know about the actual world unless instructed otherwise . |
| 14 | What happens once we get beyond the comforting world of the census and the diplomatic archive ? |
| 15 | All though the lunch we talked of the undersea world . |
| 16 | This argument may be exemplified by considering one of the mechanisms through which we deal with the everyday world . |
| 17 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 18 | In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world . |
| 19 | ‘ As you say , we live in the real world . ’ |
| 20 | It 's important to preserve the old , but we live in the real world . |
| 21 | In astrology , the two-series of aspects ( 2,4,8 etc ) is connected with the way we relate to the outside world , whereas the three-series ( 3,9 etc ) is more about internal harmony ; this may provide a clue to the meanings underlying the use of number in sacred geometry . |
| 22 | The tale of L'Esquiriel goes on to tell of how the girl is approached by a young man playing with his erect penis ; she asks him what he has there — a squirrel , is the answer ; does she want it ? — yes please , let me hold it ; not yet , put your hand on it carefully ; it 's hot ! — ah , it 's just got out of its nest — and so on , until , after further euphemisms and foreplay , we return to the blunt world of crude speech as the squirrel enters the girl 's con to seek from her stomach the nuts she ate the day before . |
| 23 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 24 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 25 | They interact with the natural world in complex , ill-understood ways — ecology is the youngest science . |
| 26 | By and large they fell in happily with the exhortations they received from the Arab world not to take any unauthorized political initiatives . |
| 27 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
| 28 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 29 | There is no uniform or objective way of reporting events in all their detail , exactly as they happen in the real world ; the structure of each language highlights , and to a large extent preselects , certain areas which are deemed to be fundamental to the reporting of any experience . |
| 30 | Their outsides remained functional ; it was only their insides , in so far as they belonged to the bourgeois world like the newly devised Pullman sleeping-cars ( 1865 ) and the first-class steamer saloons and state-rooms , which had décor . |