Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because we have , a so called civilized nation that we live in that destroys the world , that destroys animals that destroys the environment we 're living in ! |
| 2 | It was no longer possible to see the world as developing towards socialism and international harmony . |
| 3 | Young , a Croft Inns catering manager and Les Simms , a BBC engineer , have each won the world championship for honey making for their Dromore Beekeepers Club in the past two years . |
| 4 | What we have here is a senile man , desperate to be right ; his story is all that holds the world together , he just knows . |
| 5 | The answer to Ross Ferguson 's ( Letters , 24 March , p 840 ) is as follows : Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire , Some say in ice . |
| 6 | No , in that they are not free to leave the world ; so far the Ross-shire Bible reader was right . |
| 7 | The question whether this brought the world nearer to inevitable self-destruction or , paradoxically , made it stabler and safer from major war than ever before was to occupy the best minds of the decade . |
| 8 | In the hope that the dust would settle quickly and the episode be forgotten , the French convinced the World Cup Chairman Russ Thomas to ‘ close the file ’ , a shabby reaction which outraged press and fans alike . |
| 9 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 10 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 11 | It is technical advance which makes it possible to create the world 's goods with the labour of fewer and fewer people . |
| 12 | ‘ And will you find them , do you think ? ’ asked Felicity , who was quite content to accept the world as it was . |
| 13 | It is n't that you get any bigger to fit the world , the world gets smaller to fit you . |
| 14 | So the NI hired Monsieur W , an exclusive ( and very expensive ) clairvoyant to read the world 's cards just for Fred . |
| 15 | Encased in pile and nylon , hoods drawn tight , it would be easy to forget the world in a welter of sensations , were it not for the running commentary that Tove keeps up . |
| 16 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 17 | From the age of one right through his schooling , the mathematician-to-be related the world to ‘ mental gear models ’ . |
| 18 | The goings on and comings off that stunned the world this week . |
| 19 | To Jonathan Warner she has sold UK and Commonwealth rights in a first novel , Spidertown , by Puerto Rican Abraham Rodriguez , for spring 1994 , and to Michael Fishwick she has sold Bart Kosko ‘ s Fuzzy Thinking , the textbook for the new concept of fuzzy logic — that sees the world not as black and white , or , in computer terms , 0 and 1 , but having grey areas about which ‘ intelligent products ’ ( including camcorders and washing machines ) have to make ‘ judgements ’ . |
| 20 | Is anyone likely to write the world history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in such terms ? |
| 21 | By November , Wigan were promising to scour the world for a cure , while Hanley in his enforced idleness was reported to be depressed and frustrated . |
| 22 | Sociologists , economists , political scientists , historians , geogra ’ phers , anthropologists and everyone else whose work demanded a global perspective had long been accustomed to perceive the world as split into modern and traditional , advanced and backward , progressive and stagnant societies , to mention only the most commonly used distinctions . |
| 23 | She was quick to tell the world that Britain would not stand for anything which undermined the role of the queen , ‘ our beloved monarch ’ , or of our 700-year-old parliament . |
| 24 | The International Wine Challenge has grown since its inception in 1984 to become the world 's largest and most respected wine competition . |
| 25 | Buying Nicaraguan coffee , ecological soap powder and non-animal-tested make-up from the local Health Food store does n't seem likely to bring the world to heel or alter the balance of world economic power . |
| 26 | Growth rates in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa will be the slowest to fall off , and by 2020 Nigeria is likely to become the world 's fourth most populous country with 350 million people . |
| 27 | This means that they all perceive the world in slightly different ways . |
| 28 | While the electric telegraph , early radio , news agencies and film all girdled the world , today the scale and quantity are much greater . |
| 29 | In their own ways , do they not all see the world through rose-coloured spectacles ? |
| 30 | I mean , we all know the world 's not perfect . |