Example sentences of "[verb] at the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | As industries continue to concentrate at the world level , the forces described in this chapter raise two possibilities . |
| 2 | Looks at the world 's freshwater shortage and examines the possible solutions . |
| 3 | Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others . |
| 4 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 5 | But modern westerners ( and those inspired by European culture ) combine this way of looking at the world with advanced technology , enabling them to make huge changes , quickly . |
| 6 | Looking at the world , and in particular Europe , today it is hard to see how anything the CIA has done in the past 40 years has significantly affected the map of freedom . |
| 7 | Freedom is found by taking up our abode in the transcendent and looking at the world objectively . |
| 8 | Rene/ Descartes , the I7th century French philosopher , gave the world the expression Cogito , ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) and endowed the French with an invincible confidence in they very own way of looking at the world . |
| 9 | The end product of psychedelia was not a new way of looking at the world and a liberation of the mind , but rather a lot of shit concept albums in the 1970s and an inaccurate belief on the part of pop stars that they were somehow important . |
| 10 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking at the world today , maybe there are a lot more useful things to study than art and architecture ’ |
| 12 | In fact you might say that they ought to start back at the beginning and study politics and war because , looking at the world today , maybe there are a lot more useful things to study than art and architecture . |
| 13 | Capra ( 1979 ) , himself a physicist , has argued that most physicists , despite the discoveries of twentieth-century physics , are trapped in a pre-twentieth-century way of looking at the world . |
| 14 | So , if this way of looking at the world is what starts up that vital fire in your imagination , then you would do well to take Watson 's top and have as your hero someone imbued with plenty of ordinary commonsense . |
| 15 | We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people . |
| 16 | There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way . |
| 17 | Looking at the world 's 20 million bedrooms , he also estimates that replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents would not only save two thirds of the energy needed to produce the same amount of light but would , over the 5–10 year lifespan of the compact , keep out of the atmosphere 100 million tons of CO2 . |
| 18 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 19 | But such is the skill of the production that in the end you just suspend disbelief , accept that you are absorbing a different way of looking at the world and take whatever comes . |
| 20 | I suppose it is the bat equivalent of looking at the world through a lens . |
| 21 | By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one . |
| 22 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 23 | And he wants to , at the very least I think it 's reasonable to say , he wants to influence the Communist Party that , that this is the way you should be looking at the world and it , it is different to the way you were looking at it . |
| 24 | How firms actually reacted to these policies and practices will be best seen when , in the next chapter , we review how corporate strategies made at the world headquarters have been adjusted at local levels to reflect national possibilities . |
| 25 | DRIVING is a perilous business in the south-west of England , according to new evidence unveiled at the World Conference on Transport Research in Hamburg last week . |
| 26 | I suppose it is an inevitable reaction of those who look at the world with questioning eyes , to regard everyone with suspicion and , after a whole day tracking spies on this spycatcher weekend , our senses were certainly finely tuned . |
| 27 | But , of course , having a system of beliefs or attitudes also conditions the way we look at the world ; what we actually see . |
| 28 | Look your best , take that little bit of extra care ( it 's not only what you wear but how you wear it ) , look at the world squarely and confidently , and other people will expect something good . |
| 29 | Exploration of these phenomena may eventually revolutionise the whole way we look at the world . |
| 30 | As we will examine in more detail in Chapter 10 , the mass media can in a very important sense direct the way we look at the world and the questions we ask about it . |