Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should South Africa host the next World Cup ? |
| 2 | The nominalist impulse , therefore , which originates from the attempt to make generality in the world a creation of mind — thus allowing the extra-mental world to consist only of particulars — eventually leads to trying to explain the powers of the mind entirely in terms of the work of particulars . |
| 3 | They did as much if not more for the internal cohesion of antislavery as in impressing the outside world . |
| 4 | Fowler divided the English-speaking world into ( 1 ) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is ; ( 2 ) those who do not know , but care very much ; ( 3 ) those who know and condemn ; ( 4 ) those who know and approve ; and ( 5 ) those who know and distinguish . |
| 5 | It is the result of conscious planning by multinational corporations and banks and it results from the conscious actions taken by the US and UK governments in building the post-war world . |
| 6 | Manzano has drawn attention to a real difference when he says ( of both these first books ) , ‘ In general Cohen is lyrical in his writings when he refers to himself , and anarchistic when he confronts the outside world , ’ a comment which becomes more fully justified as time goes by , though Leonard 's anarchism remained personal and mainly verbal . |
| 7 | The poem 's beginning is certainly biblical , drawing on Ecclesiastes , but it also involves the modern world ( ‘ factory … bypass ’ ) , and deliberately seems to draw on the biblical passage closest to Frazerian fertility rites , the dead being reborn through the seasonal cycle . |
| 8 | The latest bombshell to hit the academic world was the government 's veto of the ‘ agreed ’ 6% pay increase for university teachers . |
| 9 | ‘ Eternity is not endless time , nor infinity endless space ; they are the entirely different mental categories through which we perceive the unfallen world . ’ |
| 10 | Sight is so important to us that it dominates the way we perceive the sensory worlds of other animals , and even dictates the vocabulary available to describe those worlds . |
| 11 | In November 1990 Sotheby 's New York offered three paintings by the artist in the Schlumberger Jones sale : of these ‘ L'Idole ’ made a hammer price of $1.1 million ( est $600,000–800,000 ) ; and ‘ La Philosophie dans le boudoir ’ , bought by a European dealer , made the then world record of $1.75 million ( est. $700,000–900,000 ) . |
| 12 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 13 | Greg leaned forward conspiratorially , as if one touch of malice made the whole world kin . |
| 14 | Then God made the wonderful world that we live in … |
| 15 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 16 | Within this dynamic , we can affect and create cultural forms and an agenda which bring the non-disabled world to us , not we to it . |
| 17 | Such portraits were far removed , in appearance and in the moral authority they were intended to convey , from contemporary images of the Macedonian kings who then ruled the Hellenistic world : royal portraits suggested the physical attractions and hopes of youth . |
| 18 | Forty per cent ( 203/507 ) of diabetics under 65 years of age were hypertensive using the current World Health Organisation criteria ( systolic blood pressure ≥ 160 mm Hg , diastolic blood pressure ≥ 95 mm Hg ; World Health Organisation , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ What does it profit a king , John , if he conquer the whole world and suffer the loss of his beloved son ? ’ |
| 20 | They 'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years . |
| 21 | South Africa should be given the 1995 World Cup without batting an eyelid . |
| 22 | In place of a ‘ sudden death ’ , once-and-for-all examination , is growing support for assessment which is an integral part of day-to-day teaching and learning , which helps pupils come to understand themselves better , as well as helping the outside world , subsequently , to understand the qualities of that pupil . |
| 23 | Phillip Gates sees the use of surplus agricultural land to make ‘ wildlife corridors ’ as our best hope of helping the natural world adapt to the changes we have set in motion . |
| 24 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 25 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 26 | It allows us to segment the external world of experience in all manner of arbitrary ways and to create artificial internal worlds to suit our convenience . |
| 27 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 28 | The New Criticism almost certainly constitutes the English-speaking world 's major contribution to literary theory , and as such it has exercised until recently a dominant influence on the teaching of literature in the United States and , to a lesser extent , in Britain . |
| 29 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 30 | Much as I would love to see the 1995 World Cup help to kickstart the South African economy as overseas visitors pour in to fill impressive stadia and savour the beauty of the land , the facts are that as things stand rugby will be used as a political pawn . |