Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS LONG AGO as the 19th century , Franz Brentano argued that mind is essentially intentional , and that conscious states always require cognitively-held objects , even though these may not exist in the physical world . |
| 2 | ‘ We should not joke about the unseen world , ’ said Leonard . |
| 3 | The list includes good madeira , port and sherry and some fine German wines , but does not dabble in the New World . |
| 4 | However , dramatic recoveries are not confined to the reptilian world . |
| 5 | Its dominance was not confined to the academic world ; indeed , it became the intellectual creed of US foreign policy in the late 1940s and 1950s . |
| 6 | Supposedly grown-up people that believe human beings can not practise safe sex and contraception , or that it is right to deny a 14-year-old girl who has been raped an abortion because it would be morally wrong in the eyes of God , are not living in the real world . |
| 7 | If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery , he is not living in the real world . |
| 8 | But if that 's an incentive they 're not living in the real world . |
| 9 | ‘ Anybody who says there is not a direct connection between people 's health and unemployment is not living in the real world . |
| 10 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 11 | A NORTH Wales MP has accused Labour supporters of ‘ behaving like spoilt children ’ and of not living in the real world . |
| 12 | Referring to the Rhyl Labour Party campaign to persuade the public to send preprinted ‘ Deeds Not Words ’ postcards to him at the House of Commons , Mr Richards said : ‘ Anybody who thinks that sending postcards and petitions is going to change the price of bread is not living in the real world . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 14 | The abstract musings of macroeconomists did not encroach on the hard world of economic decision making . |
| 15 | But biblical writers use similar phrases in contexts where it is clear they are not speaking of the whole world as we understand it ( Genesis 41:56–57 ; Acts 2:5 ) . |
| 16 | The EC and the USA both dump their subsidised food on world markets at artificially low prices which robs developing countries of any outlet for their own surplus foodstuffs , as they can not compete against the industrial world 's $126 billion of annual subsidies . |
| 17 | But those Ks are not found in the real world . |
| 18 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 19 | And that 's something that does not happen in the real world . ’ |
| 20 | They just would not communicate with the outside world for several days at a time . |
| 21 | After the timid The Maggie ( 1953 , High and Dry in US ) , Mackendrick 's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) where a gang of bank robbers , masquerading as an unlikely string quartet , engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady , symbol of Ealing 's ( and England 's ) determination not to think about the modern world , smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility . |
| 22 | He could not live in the outside world , because of his terrible , ugly face . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister and all the other Ministers are wrong because they do not live in the real world . |
| 24 | An example of this in the classical theory of general relativity is provided by a black hole , which is a region of space-time in which the gravitational field is so strong that any light or other signal is dragged back into the region and can not escape to the outside world . |
| 25 | Most empiricists , for example , have been prepared to do this with secondary qualities , such as colours , sounds and smells , which , they believe , science could not allow to the external world . |
| 26 | If ethical analysis in this context does not help in the real world , it is a waste of time . |
| 27 | And we have n't got to the science-fiction world of brainwashing — in fact Harley came across pretty well at the last press conference . |
| 28 | The real problem with this gallery is that it confirms what the public has always thought : that designers are a bunch of elitists who do n't live in the real world . |