Example sentences of "[subord] [art] world ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more moving images at Middleton , in south-east Leeds , where the world 's first commercial railway was opened to carry truckloads of coal from Middleton Colliery to the city 's mills . |
| 2 | The 45-year-old man from Pinetown , near Durban , was given the heart on Sunday at Cape Town 's Groote Schuur hospital , where the world 's first heart transplant was carried out 25 years ago . |
| 3 | And in an era when we have become used to world leaders in their Sixties and Seventies , many other former rebels and youth heroes are now older than the world 's ultimate figure of authority . |
| 4 | For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world 's steel industry . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH the world 's largest sporting event to take place on a single day is called the Indianapolis 500 , the track is actually in Speedway , Indiana , a smokestack-America suburb of small frame houses , storefronts and industrial plants . |
| 6 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 7 | Once the world 's largest woollen mill , now a working museum , Armley Mills offers a realistic glimpse into Yorkshire 's industrial heritage . |
| 8 | Once the world 's nations can agree on how to exploit mineral deposits on the seabed , the robots association expects the market for robots to do the job to be £4.2 million in 1985 , rising to £35–9 million by 1990 . |
| 9 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 10 | Such checks will be less reassuring if the world 's supplies become more accessible — and , alarmingly , less well documented . |
| 11 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 12 | He looked as if the world 's tragedies were on his own doorstep and in a fit of hysteria Ruth supposed they were . |
| 13 | Because the world 's streams and rivers provide such convenient sewers , and because the seas and lakes seem all-accommodating , human beings have , over the years , abused them notoriously . |
| 14 | It is becoming easier , first , because the world 's stock of plutonium is growing ( see pages 109–112 ) . |
| 15 | That is not Mr Lawson 's fault , of course , but he has to live with the danger that while the world 's capital markets will duly bridge the gap between Britain 's domestic savings and investment , they will only do so at a lower price for sterling . |
| 16 | While the world 's most desirable clothes-horses parade on the runways , the female catwalk photographers watch them through Canon , Leicaflex and Nikon lenses . |
| 17 | The BBC may be old-fashioned ‘ Aunty Bebe ’ to some , but ever since the world 's first regular broadcast service began from London on November 2 , 1922 , the ‘ good old reliable BBC ’ has retained its meticulous care in all facets of broadcast communication . |
| 18 | Whilst the world 's energy and material resources are declining , there is one resource which is growing rapidly , if not explosively . |
| 19 | Whether the world 's nations can work together to minimize the adverse consequences of the future rise in global sea level , let alone achieve significant reductions in emissions of the greenhouse gases causing global warming and the associated rising seas , remains to be seen ( refer to chapter 12 ) . |
| 20 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 21 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 22 | I understand that a rival bid from India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka to jointly stage the competition is worth £300,000 more and will prove more attractive when the world 's cricketing nations meet in London in early February . |
| 23 | I understand that a rival bid from India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka to jointly stage the competition is worth £300,000 more and will prove more attractive when the world 's cricketing nations meet in London in early February . |
| 24 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent . |
| 25 | Orders then snowballed and when the world 's first public railway opened in 1825 , William Jnr was one of six Stockton and Darlington Railway directors taking part in the trial run from Shildon to Darlington . |
| 26 | Thus , as the world 's oceans are unevenly heated and cooled — more in some places than others , more at some times than others — so it tends to shift . |
| 27 | Mexico , as the world 's fifth largest oil producer in 1980 , was able to take advantage of its large revenues to finance a new development strategy known as SAM , the Mexican Food System . |
| 28 | In the long term , manoeuvring an inflatable dinghy between whales and whalers is not alone a dramatic event as far as the world 's whales are concerned although , of course , it temporarily delays a killing . |
| 29 | A life that includes rural beauty as well as the world 's most exciting city . |
| 30 | A dazzling performance is ensured through a range of five engines that includes 2 litre carburettor and 2 litre injection units … as well as the world 's first multi-valve diesel . |