Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 2 | Intervening militarily may make the world feel better for doing something , but it will not bring peace . |
| 3 | And you 're quite right er we must regard the World Church as meaning ourselves . |
| 4 | A new economics is possible , maintains Robertson , which ‘ should be systematically enabling for people ; it should be systematically conserving of resources and environment ; it should treat the world economy as a multi-level one-world system , with autonomous but interdependent parts at all levels . ’ |
| 5 | Men still define and control how people should perceive the world . |
| 6 | Britain 's prime minister , John Major , this week suggested that the UN should limit the world traffic in arms . |
| 7 | This time , however , it will not be about the great philosophical issues of class warfare and who should run the world ; it will be simply about where students can sit to hear a lecture . |
| 8 | You must see the world while you 're young . " |
| 9 | ‘ I must tell the world ! ’ he said . |
| 10 | We two must save the world . |
| 11 | They must start the world again , to produce a McKechnie who is freed from cat , books , records , and girl . |
| 12 | You must warn the world . ’ |
| 13 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 14 | Thoughts buzzed around in my head and I might pursue the world of the spirit , but dressing up was equally important . |
| 15 | Tonight I 'll watch the world stroll by the Pueblo 's busy ‘ Los Naranjos ’ square ; the cool fountain will provide the perfect back-drop for the snap-shots . |
| 16 | And then you start thinking well you know now I 'll see the world . |
| 17 | Anything of any sort which might rock the world , her world , and her thoughts flew to the cradle . |
| 18 | If I try to sit up , do you promise that you 'll keep the world still ? ’ |
| 19 | Professor Hoskins perceived the compulsion under which labourers might enter the world of the money wage and the cash purchase when he assessed the impact of " agricultural improvement " on the village of Wigston in Leicestershire . |
| 20 | ‘ You might have the world 's biggest electronic haystack , but it will still be difficult to find the needle . ’ |
| 21 | What about other people who might change the world , or had done ? |
| 22 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll change the world , my love . ’ |
| 24 | They put a drug on the market and they say that it 's wonderful and that the side effects are irrelevant and very slight and that everybody 's gon na be very happy and it 's a new wonder drug and it 'll change the world and is n't that marvellous . |
| 25 | We 'll give the story to the newspapers , and they 'll tell the world about it . |
| 26 | What about your involvement with anything that might help the world |
| 27 | Ask them and they 'll say the world has gone mad . |
| 28 | First , there is an inability to consider alternative ways in which the ‘ other side ’ may see the world , and especially the possibility that they may see ‘ us ’ as the aggressor . |
| 29 | In fact , each guppy in a tank may see the world coloured slightly differently from its fellows . |
| 30 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |