Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | for example , to solve any design problem there has at some stage to be a switch from systems thinking to thinking in terms of physical entities because these are the things that can be created , precisely located and manipulated in the real world . |
| 2 | The tape showed Anderson sitting , struggling to keep himself alive and to communicate with the outside world , but the world was n't going to see it . |
| 3 | If the developers of these walled refuges were bold enough to include small industries , perhaps also offering to connect young executives by computer and fax to the outside world , the inhabitants of clusterland would never have to leave home at all . |
| 4 | She pushed open the door and moved into the strange world of sparkling glass and soft carpets . |
| 5 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 6 | Mathematics is becoming increasingly important in its applications and uses in the modern world . |
| 7 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 8 | Public attention to literacy often focusses on either ‘ illiteracy ’ — the problems many adults encounter with the requirements of reading and writing in the modern world — or with professional — often literary — writing . |
| 9 | Central to our vision of the New Europe , therefore , is an industrial strategy which can enable us to compete and succeed in the modern world . |
| 10 | This corresponds to the stage of maturity in the individual 's development where he or she ‘ has renounced the pleasure principle , adjusted himself to reality and turned to the external world for the object of his desires ’ . |
| 11 | Many other metals and alloys were of course discovered and used throughout the ancient world . |
| 12 | From its earliest beginnings , the central concepts and problems of political sociology — class , power and the state — referred to developments and struggles in the public world of politics , commerce and industry . |
| 13 | Stressing that the current pattern of production and consumption was unsustainable and would have to change , " particularly in the industrialized countries " , the resolution also emphasized that a significant transfer of technology and finance to the developing world was required . |
| 14 | Most schools that have gone grant maintained have declined to use the D S O. Now my concern is , erm that we 're not actually , when we come and compare with the outside world , we 're not actually giving the service that we may think we are . |
| 15 | They suggest that , within the family , women take on the expressive role of nurturing the other family members , while men take on the instrumental role and go into the outside world to earn the family 's wage . |
| 16 | I could n't figure out why our spirits were supposed to have bodies and exist in the physical world of cars and houses . |
| 17 | They turn clinical description on its head , as they talk about the trauma of infertility treatments , the pain ( emotional and physical ) , hopes and dreams , and anger at the medical world . |
| 18 | Much of this takes place in the give and take of the unstructured world of the playground . |
| 19 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 20 | Grow up , sister , and come into the real world . ’ |
| 21 | After the nightmare images conjured up by John and Charles it was reassuring to drive through the historic streets of Sandwich and return to the sane world of the golf tournament . |
| 22 | ‘ You get young people who appear to be socially confident and assured in the outside world but inside they are remarkably immature and insecure . |
| 23 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visual form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 24 | To him the camera becomes a tool which allows him to express his thoughts , feelings and moods in direct connection with the world ; it allows his mind and spirit to react to and relate with the everyday world in a visible form thanks to the alchemy of photography . |
| 25 | To get the activity in isolation you have to think of someone suddenly coming into existence with just enough of a world around him so that what he does and believes is just what the postman does and believes in the real world , but without any real environment . |
| 26 | The Hilliard Ensemble marks the quincentenary here with two distinct discs , one of works by composers associated with the courts of Ferdinand and Isabella , and other of music by Hispanic musicians living and working in the New World . |
| 27 | A former Portuguese colony , the predominantly Catholic East Timor was forcibly incorporated into Indonesia in 1976 [ see pp. 27906-07 ] , and closed to the outside world for 13 years , during which time some 200,000 Timorese were killed or died of starvation , according to human rights groups . |