Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It read : ‘ Not only is debt partly responsible for the slump in commodity prices ; it also devours the money earned by Third World exports . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The War Artists Advisory Committee was set up , not only to stimulate and artistic record of war and related activities , but also to help ensure that at least some of the artists would be saved from First World War carnage . |
| 7 | But environmentalists warn that this could also result in third world countries being the destination of some of the toxic materials which are left at the end of the recycling process . |
| 8 | And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 . |
| 9 | Several of the gasifier systems commercially available are made by Second World War manufacturers . |
| 10 | No wonder Britain is a country heading for Third World status and just about the only people who are doing well in it are the Bailiffs . |
| 11 | ‘ Having read your manifesto I feel bound to add that your racist policies , your opposition to aid for third world countries , and your proposals for the quarantining of those carry the AIDS virus are deeply repugnant to the Christian consciousness . ’ |
| 12 | Whoever benefits from Third World loans , it is the poor who pay the price … |
| 13 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | In the individual years 1980 to 1984 , the proportion of investment going to Third World countries , as derived from a survey of the leading 40 UK manufacturing corporations , varied between 10 and 26 per cent . |
| 15 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 16 | This is processed and after various chemical stages is converted into Potash powder and transported , in bulk , to the Port of Aquaba where it is exported to Third World nations . |
| 17 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 18 | The world 's population tops five billion.The prices of the commodities exported by Third World countries , which have declined throughout the 1980s , reach their lowest level of the decade , at around 65 per cent of their average value in the 1970s . |
| 19 | Prince Charles calls for third world aid , population control |
| 20 | Britain , however , had fought to impede European agreements requiring catalytic converters on cars and even as London 's traffic slowed to pre-First World War speeds , planned to build vast new roads and to cut rail services . |
| 21 | For Rex and Tomlinson , the only way in which black people are likely to change their own situation is to develop forms of self-defence and self-help which are , in a sense , anti-colonialist , in that they are based on Third World models , ‘ looking to a change in the balance of power and resources between rich and poor nations as a means to their own liberation ’ ( p. 293 ) . |
| 22 | CHESTER World Development Day takes place on Saturday , June 26 when people can take part in workshops based on Third World topics or listen to discussions on global issues by guest speakers , including Gyles Brandreth MP , in the Town Hall . |
| 23 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 24 | Finally colonizing nations discovered more direct ways of profiting from Third World peoples : they simply demanded money from them . |
| 25 | The 23-year-old played Calypso in Channel 4 's steamy story set during Second World War . |
| 26 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 27 | To have to compete with Third World labour costs would produce massive unrest in a population already urbanised and used to the standards of a Western industrial society . |
| 28 | The only way to compete with Third World and eastern bloc ships seems to be to cut back on crew rest hours and leave . |
| 29 | Some like " Diplomacy " , which is set in pre-First World War Europe , involve pupils in negotiations with other " countries " , setting territorial goals , and forming ( and often breaking ) alliances . |
| 30 | SPURRED on by the prospect of imminent defence cuts , the US Army has drawn up plans for cutting its forces in Europe by half , and recasting the army of the future into a rapid-deployment force , able to intervene in Third World trouble spots , in terrorist situations and to fight the war on drugs . |