Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that the US market-place drives the world of Personal Computers . |
| 2 | But wisely Mrs Christie saw that she would have much more difficulty seeing the world through juvenile spectacles than she would through Belgian ones . |
| 3 | ‘ They know each other well and the prince thinks the world of her but their relationship is purely platonic , ’ she said . |
| 4 | For those who see in this the loss of an opportunity to remould the world more nearly to their hearts ' desire , that must be the overwhelming pity . |
| 5 | Porsche engineers have overthrown conventional thinking and built an all-wheel drive car to shake the world : the 911 Carrera 4 . |
| 6 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 7 | Some may have the opportunity of a short-term secondment to industry to observe the world of work at first hand or to reconnoitre a promising field for curriculum in-put . |
| 8 | AN ATTEMPT to create the world 's biggest chicken curry — a one-tonne monster which could feed 10,000 diners — will be made on Saturday . |
| 9 | QUOTES OF ‘ 89 Yes , Minister ‘ Mr Moynihan , I know , will join me in congratulating Frank Bruno on his gallant attempt to win the world heavyweight title . |
| 10 | UNTIL John Whitaker had to scratch Henderson Milton with last-minute lameness a week ago , the 1992 Volvo World Cup final in Del Mar had been billed as the ‘ duel of the World Cup champions ’ — Milton 's rival in this ‘ shoot-out ’ being Canadian Ian Millar 's Big Ben , the first horse to win the World Cup twice , in 1988 and 1989 . |
| 11 | Obviously American fashion does have an influence on the European market , but when the Sunday Mirror magazine declares ‘ the high-top trainer rules the world and is this year 's trendiest fashion accessory . |
| 12 | One young fan shows the world what he thinks of it . |
| 13 | UN and European Community action to help the world 's poor must become more effective . |
| 14 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 15 | You need have no fear facing the world , ’ as if she were already clearly seeing her happiness and her children in the fullness of the years . |
| 16 | In Totality and Infinity ( 1961 ) , a book self-consciously written under the shadow of two ‘ world ’ wars in which Europe , at the limit of its attempt to devour the world , turned in on itself in two violent acts of self-consummation , Levinas questions the accepted relation between morality and politics . |
| 17 | It is up to man to look at the world and through his perceptions and his thinking to convert the world either into a form which can then be processed or into an idea . |
| 18 | A LATE British bid to host the World Chess Championships was announced last night . |
| 19 | The US and the UK tried to coordinate the way in which the results of their fusion research reached the world . |
| 20 | A £4.1 MILLION bid to stage the world chess championship has turned out to be phoney . |
| 21 | Neither cultural Protestantism nor reverence before history could tell him what to preach in Safenwil , Sunday by Sunday , while the inheritors of Christian civilisation tore the world apart in the name of their enlightened values . |
| 22 | Richard Fish , 24 , told from his hospital bed last night how he fractured his spine in three places when his bid to equal the world canoe free-fall record for a second time went ‘ horribly wrong . ’ |
| 23 | The movie gave the world the catchphrase ‘ I 'm gon na make him an offer he ca n't refuse , ’ and showed that a character reputedly based on Frank Sinatra got his starring role in a top movie ( see From Here To Eternity ) when a horse 's head appeared in the bed of a top Hollywood producer . |
| 24 | It is our attempt to get the world to recognise what we can do technologically . |
| 25 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 26 | The greenhouse effect means the world is in hot water . |
| 27 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 28 | Well I would doubt if the Jehovah 's Witness overcometh the world . |
| 29 | Fear stalks the world of financial reporting So far , the Review Panel 's tough attitude to wayward accounting seems to be working |
| 30 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |