Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should South Africa host the next World Cup ? |
| 2 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 3 | Second , if this is true , can capitalism develop the Third World ? |
| 4 | Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’ |
| 5 | The first Formula One World Championship race took place at Silverstone on 13 May 1950 and was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina , who became the first World Champion four months later . |
| 6 | The bar chart shows what the average Westerner consumes in a year compared to a Third World person : the shaded area represents the Third World . |
| 7 | These and even later attempts to resurrect ‘ planning ’ , especially economic planning , raise the basic difficulty in seeing the Second World War as the planners ' triumph . |
| 8 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 9 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 10 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 11 | Charles Sweeny 's influence and financial backing behind the formation of the Eagle Squadron from American pilots before the US entered the Second World War , was recognised for posterity in 1986 . |
| 12 | Before the success of JSTARS , the manufacturer of the Wildcats , Hellcats and Avengers that helped America win the second world war looked likely to fade away . |
| 13 | AS ENGLAND start to look towards fashioning a team that can win the next World Cup , the RFU have appointed a new coach Dick Best only until the end of the season . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , Leon Trotsky described the First World War as ‘ at bottom , a revolt of the forces of production against the political forms of the nation and the State ’ . |
| 15 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 16 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 17 | Maneka Gandhi , India 's former Environment Minister , accused the G7 countries of " keeping the Third World on the debt/poverty hook , whilst vastly over-consuming and polluting themselves " . |
| 18 | Most Scout and Guide troops did not survive the Second World War . |
| 19 | During his reunion , Christy visited the 2nd World War Cemetery on Leros where 183 soldiers are buried . |
| 20 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 21 | Gasification is a ‘ retarded ’ technology , a technology that may benefit the Third World in in era where the perceived cost of oil is reckoned to be high . |
| 22 | The level of undiscovered malpractice is a matter for conjecture although such evidence is continually coming to light , as illustrated in the manner in which leading drug/pesticide/herbicide companies callously exploit the Third World . |
| 23 | ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies . |
| 24 | Western banks are even more reluctant to part with cash , seeing the possibility that East European borrowing could become the Third World debt problem of the 1990s . |
| 25 | Now I personally believe that most erm policy makers in Britain , and indeed in most other industrial countries , do n't really believe the Third World matters to them at all . |
| 26 | First , by denying fair trade to developing countries whose economies rely upon agriculture , the CAP is directly responsible for much of the poverty in the Third World ( A. Moyes , How Farming in Europe Affects the Third World , Oxfam , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Your recent issue on how the end of the Cold War affects the Third World ( East Meets West , North Forgets South , NI 211 ) was welcome — but puzzling . |
| 28 | Do you remember the Second World War at the docks . |
| 29 | Erm do you remember the second world war ? |
| 30 | The third presence in this Unholy Trinity of forces pulling the Third World downhill is the catastrophic decline in commodity prices during the 1980s . |