Example sentences of "[verb] in the natural world " in BNC.
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| 1 | To him everything that happens in the natural world is rational through and through and subject to a rigid norm . |
| 2 | A cellular automaton is a mathematical model which has , like DNA , the power of self-replication , and the principle of cellular automata is believed to underlie a number of the phenomena seen in the natural world , such as the complex patterns of colour on the shells of some molluscs , the coat patterns of some mammalian species and the vortex patterns of water . |
| 3 | His goal was to discover a way of reconciling mechanism and science with the harmony which he perceived in the natural world , and with a life of individual creative freedom . |
| 4 | Once that knowledge is gained , it can be used to explain events in the natural world , to make predictions about what will happen in the natural world , and thus to control that world and make it behave in ways that are , at least in theory , to the advantage of the controllers . |
| 5 | Or again , take the multitudinous array of chemical substances that exist in the natural world . |
| 6 | Water and carbon dioxide are the two starting materials from which green plants manufacture the sugars which are themselves further elaborated by plant and animal cells into the incredible array of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-containing molecules which exist in the natural world . |
| 7 | A huge diversity of vision has arisen in the natural world because the sun is such an important influence on life . |
| 8 | ‘ … [ I ] t can not be argued that violence exists solely as a cultural phenomenon … violence is almost certainly embedded in the natural world ’ ( 1982 : 54 ) . |
| 9 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |