Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you know about that world , Steve ? |
| 2 | Juries saw no problem deciding whom they were to despatch from this world : let similar bodies decide who is to come into it . |
| 3 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 4 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 5 | Officials in Western and some non-aligned states have decried the tendency in the Non-Aligned Movement to criticise Western military bases and facilities located in Third World states whole glossing over the concession of military facilities to the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Things do seem to work in this world . |
| 7 | Howard , from Liverpool , has an England record of 20 Tests , officiated in both World Cups and has been on the panel for nine years . |
| 8 | Any competent bush mouse , not to mention man or elephant , can step aside and contemplate the whole grass-roots frenzy at leisure , an object less of menace than of strangeness and wonder , the culmination of an evolutionary story as different from that of mammals as it is possible to conceive in this world . |
| 9 | You have to take what you want in this world , ’ he husked , his eyes reducing her to weakness . |
| 10 | It will never be superseded in this world or the next and in Paradise the blessed will practise archery . |
| 11 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 12 | This boat 's already made it to Britain from Bulgaria to take part … some of the French contingent appears to come from another world |
| 13 | Ulster blood was spilt in two World Wars and is still being spilt here in our own mother country and what does Britain give us in return ? |
| 14 | ‘ He lives in another world half the time . |
| 15 | She lives in another world . |
| 16 | Small verbal distinctions mattered in this world . |
| 17 | I think there 's more to love than just simply romantic love erm , I 'm a volunteer campaigner with Oxfam and to me love includes love of my fellow man and fellow women throughout the world and I find it very hard at the moment that millions of people are starving in this world and I feel that I 've got to show my love by helping them |
| 18 | And I have these inklings that what you commit or endure in this world , relates to some kind of system of justice or balance . |
| 19 | The Washington Post of Feb. 12 reported that diplomats from the major powers saw these changes as " necessary if the UN is to adjust to current world realities by moving away from its former , almost exclusive preoccupation with North-South issues and put more stress on conflict-prevention and peacekeeping " . |
| 20 | have come to this world of the mortals . |
| 21 | Jaq had n't told either of his companions exactly what he intended to do , and just then it occurred to him how Googol might resent the deaths of fellow Navigators caught on this world when the flesh-eater came . |
| 22 | As to nomes , I have data that says nomes originated on another world and came here thousands of years ago . |
| 23 | For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs . |
| 24 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 25 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |
| 26 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 27 | The Trent Bridge slaughter in no way compensated for that World Cup final defeat — or being outclassed 2-1 in the summer 's Cornhill Test series . |
| 28 | The £300,000 extension providing an extra eight rooms at the home in Prenton Road West , is named after First World War hero Frank Murphy who died on the battlefield at Ypres . |
| 29 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 30 | ‘ Especially in countries where there are large rural populations still living under Third World conditions , the transistor is usually among the most prized of possessions . ’ |