Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.

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1 That is not , in any way , to take away from the fine documentation of every tournament played in 1991 , many of which were penned by British tennis journalists , who continue to be the most travelled in the world .
2 There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part .
3 The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean .
4 Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present .
5 This disruption of spatio-temporal assumptions was not only paralleled in the world of art but also in philosophy , from the incorporation of time and space into the subject in Kant 's ‘ transcendental aesthetic ’ to Bergmann 's writings .
6 However , a certain number of these works are obviously scattered around the world ’ .
7 As consumer demands become less varied around the world , the truly successful company is one which adopts global marketing strategies that can be tailored and implemented with a local focus .
8 PEARL HARBOR saw a power too long underrated by the world lash out and inflict a crippling blow on a huge country .
9 Some now want to be less dominated by the world of employment and demands of career .
10 For such , God only frowns on the world , and stirs it to judgment ; the butterfly can not break loose into flight ; it merely expires , as Leonard expressed it , ending ‘ its life in three flag-swept days . ’
11 Well did Dag Hammarskjøld say that ‘ the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action ’ .
12 It was certainly and opportunity for the churches together to look at the world situation in conversation together and thus , to deepen the faith which have to proclaim at arriving at a common understanding of the situation .
13 This is , she said , ‘ a day of love , something much needed in the world ’ — Paul Woodley , I R N , New York .
14 And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ?
15 The determination and effective preparedness of the nuclear powers to mount an instant all-out nuclear counter-strike the moment it perceives itself to be under nuclear attack must be condemned as an illegitimate threat of force , and is rightly so condemned by the world 's peace movement .
16 Then I thought of St Antony , so horrified by the world that he fled to the desert , and of the faces of the saints at St Paul 's staring down from the dome , haunted by demons .
17 Not enough hurt in the world , you 've got to tease people with stuff like that ! ’
18 Munster originates from the Vosges mountains of France , but is much imitated throughout the world .
19 Erm it is the only way , they 've told us , we can get our cost down to compete with the world market .
20 The horizon actually curves , and you can literally walk around the world in five steps . ’
21 The tour 's prestige refereeing appointment , the Barbarians game at Twickenham on 25 November , has rightly gone to the world 's best , Clive Norling .
22 The Earth science revolution was made possible in large part by a new found ability to examine the oceanic crust , at first by remote sensing and later through direct access ; and the techniques that revealed the importance of the ocean floors in the plate-tectonic scheme of things were also to provide ever-increasing quantities of data on the rocks hitherto concealed by the world 's oceans .
23 To regard homosexuality as a social construction and nothing more is , potentially , to put another weapon in the hands of those who would like to see it quite literally erased from the world — if it can be constructed , then it can be deconstructed , so what are all those queers still doing here ?
24 You would have thought that there was no one better fitted in the world to understand these pleas than the Collector .
25 She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them .
26 At a council meeting of his barons one day he sat apart , chewing a hazel twig and apparently lost to the world .
27 For fourteen or fifteen years no man could have been less conscious of himself and of his own life , less informed about the world than Antoine Bloye .
28 It was only released to the world , after translation , in 1921 when Richard Haehl procured the manuscript from Hahnemann 's ancestors by which time there had been a great establishment of homœopathy by J.T. Kent and those who followed him .
29 Industry is widely misunderstood in the world today .
30 For a while it seemed as if all the woes of Welsh rugby were down to The Gnoll — though this theory was eventually disproved by the World Cup .
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