Example sentences of "[verb] throughout the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fifteenth century the Italian humanists introduced considerable refinement , the ‘ humanistic minuscule ’ was gradually adopted throughout the Christian world , and became the cursive hand which was eventually termed ‘ italic ’ . |
| 2 | These are just two of the many examples which could be quoted of the controlling and interacting forces at work in nature and of the subtle interlinking with occurs throughout the natural world and which maintains the state of order on this planet . |
| 3 | But it is an assumption that is made throughout the developing world , where current energy plans would cost $100 billion per year . |
| 4 | Four days later on 21 October 1520 , a day celebrated throughout the Catholic world as the Feast of St Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins , Magellan sighted a headland . |
| 5 | The Binary Condensed Algorithm number , which is used throughout the financial world , is also received by facsimile from Belgacom , Gilmont said . |
| 6 | Many other metals and alloys were of course discovered and used throughout the ancient world . |
| 7 | Perhaps most important of all , the interest displayed in the Woonerf has demonstrated the hunger that exists throughout the Western world for a successful method of reclaiming the streets from a century of growing domination by the car . |
| 8 | In a style modelled on the Platonic dialogues , Justin here interpreted Old Testament prophecies which he saw fulfilled in Jesus and in the present life of the church , already spreading throughout the known world . |
| 9 | The publicists , popularisers and ideologists were now to be found throughout the western world and wherever there was a local elite attracted by ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 10 | Today , the result of their endeavours can be found throughout the modern world — in industry , religion and amongst the great literary works of our time . |
| 11 | The idea of the boy Scout movement soon spread and was imitated throughout the civilised world . |
| 12 | However , I advise the hon. Gentleman that crime has increased throughout the western world during the past half century . |
| 13 | Even curse tablets are limited to the human reactions to theft and perjury and the instant demand for painful retribution , echoed throughout the primitive world . |
| 14 | In the early 1950s , however , the Egyptian revolution and the widespread Arab nationalist sentiments which it fostered throughout the Arab world found expression in anti-Western sentiment . |
| 15 | The principle underlying this figure obtained throughout the ancient world — not only in the classical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East , but among the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe and farther afield as well . |
| 16 | Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan . |
| 17 | The speech was warmly endorsed throughout the Arab world . |