Example sentences of "[adv] in the world " in BNC.
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1 | Those people always get on better in the world than decent men . ’ |
2 | He has many characteristics irritating to Britons , especially in the world of finance — he is an intellectual , a socialist and a polymath who walks the world stage , but is suspected of putting French interests first . |
3 | Merson drew special attention to the spread of AIDS among women , especially in the world 's poorest regions , saying that " by the year 2000 , more than half of all newly infected adults may be women " . |
4 | On the other hand , he wrote , if you do n't see this clearly at the start you only produce more crap and there 's enough in the world already . |
5 | England twice beat them easily enough in the World Cup ( by 138 runs and eight wickets ) , but in the opening match of that competition , Pakistan only succeeded in defending 267 against them by 15 runs . |
6 | The view that applied studies should be of equal value and status with the theoretical is far too little understood in this country , almost alone in the world . |
7 | Stella is a wild card both in the deepest recesses of Serena 's own mind and in the domain of middlemen , for Stella is the only character in the novel who is exempt from this status : ‘ Stella was in effect her own middleman , alone in the world , selling her personality , and very badly ’ ( 30 ) . |
8 | Rather like a pressed flower , all alone in the world . " |
9 | She is the daughter of an officer in the army , but I think now alone in the world and with little money . |
10 | It became clear that while Smith 's claim was logically valid in an abstract world , it was unlikely to be so in the world . |
11 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
12 | You can see this infatuation not only in the world of pornography , but on prime-time TV as well . |
13 | This is more of the same , only in the world of opera . |
14 | They recognize that in many ways they are junior players not only in the world league , but also within Europe . |
15 | It is not only in the world of high finance that fraud has occurred . |
16 | Christine , who lives in Fairfields , Stockton , spends her time working voluntarily as an equivalent of Marje Proops or Claire Rayner — only in the world of animals rather than humans . |
17 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
18 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
19 | The slowing down in the world industrial economy in the 1970s changed the whole environment in which many firms worked . |
20 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
21 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
22 | It is also a must for anyone who wants a better understanding of , and comment on the events that are reported daily in the World 's Press . |
23 | He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb . |
24 | Who would have thought that the Oakland As , celebrated by Mr Will and thought to be a collection of giants , would have been blown away in the World Series by a bunch of journeymen from Cincinnati ? |
25 | She was far away in the world of her imagination . |
26 | The early part of the band 's career witnessed incredible international success , making them undoubtedly the best known exponents of rockabilly in the world — no mean feat for three guys just out of their teens . |
27 | Undoubtedly the natural defences of the human body held out the greatest promise of further success , and undoubtedly , in England if not in the world , Sir Almroth Wright was the leading expert in devising ways of stimulating such defences . |
28 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
29 | Hofmann returned to Berlin , to the most prestigious chair of chemistry in Germany and thus in the world , in 1865 , somewhat disappointed at the slow development of chemistry in Britain . |
30 | I will keep them , for your sake , Eric , till I die … you Eric , who I love best in the world . ’ |