Example sentences of "[noun] with the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps not without significance that Wulfhere 's queen was Eormenhild , daughter of Eorcenberht , king of Kent ( 640–4 ) , a marriage probably intended to bring the Mercians more closely into association with the Anglo-Frankish world of the Kentish court at a time when their kingdom was being Christianized under Wulfhere . |
| 2 | A link involves fundraising both to meet the costs of sustaining a long distance friendship and to provide funds to help to support Christian Aid 's existing partnership with the Third World community with which there is a link . |
| 3 | Strong and justified pressures for a New International Economic Order also make it imperative for the implications of Europe 's relationships with the Third World to be taken into serious account . |
| 4 | Here , at the top of Bridge Street , on the road to Rickmansworth , is where respectable Pinner finds itself in rude confrontation with the real world . |
| 5 | Over the last generation , the world 's poorest states have become immeasurably poorer as a result of well-meaning engagement with the developed world . |
| 6 | Spain is , together with Portugal , marked out from other European countries by its ambiguous historical engagement with the New World and with Africa ( for example , the Moorish conquest in the eighth century led to a domination that lasted for up to eight centuries in some regions ) . |
| 7 | His wide engagement with the natural world was reflected equally in his remarkable paintings of birds ( shown in their habitats , yet often seen almost as personalities ) , of animals , and of British and foreign landscapes . |
| 8 | However , Iran came to regard the need for closer identification with the Third World as the counterpart to a progressive de-emphasising of ties with both superpowers . |
| 9 | But the intervention is manifest to anyone who has read Proust without perceiving any explicit alignment of metaphor with the world of repose , metonymy with the outer world . |
| 10 | Admired and rejected , the primitive rite is also linked with the city ; the isolated last line of the poem 's second section summons up the field and its dancing , leading to a juxtaposition with the urban world which follows . |
| 11 | They could also choose to maintain barriers to trade , to investment and to other financial transactions with the outside world . |
| 12 | Since metaphor co-operates in this passage with the inner world of repose , its internal reliance upon the literal denotation of an outside world actually subverts its own function . |
| 13 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 14 | Even MTV has jumped on the bandwagon with The Real World , a show that chronicles the lives of seven kids rooming together in a SoHo loft . |
| 15 | Drummond , also an outsider , started Radio 3 's rapprochement with the outside world . |
| 16 | In the conventional sense of the word , which conveys some sort of harmony with the natural world , it certainly was . |
| 17 | The great endeavour which Peter Scott and a small group of inspired people began in 1961 may be said to have only just started to have the worldwide impact which will help mankind to learn once again to develop in full harmony with the natural world , but it is already indelibly clear that Peter 's influence and determination has been crucial in creating a force that will not be denied its place of importance on a planet which , in the foreseeable future , may be required to support a human population of double its present size . |
| 18 | I 'm not a card-carrying clown so I was n't admitted to the AGM , but a usually reliable source informs me that the main issues debated were amalgamation with the US-based World Clowns ' Federation — inevitable , I suppose , in the era of superunions — and charitable status . |
| 19 | Dependence , together with its reciprocal nurturance , is an important structural and emotional dimension in nearly all social relationships , both between human beings and between humans and the ‘ spirit ’ helpers who have come to them in dreams to seek affiliation with the human world . |
| 20 | and get to grips with the real world , then th er as well as what Jim said about the fact that we pay staff lieu time , and we pay them overtime , and |
| 21 | When Clinton disembarked , The Times was trying to come to grips with the modern world : William Rees-Mogg asked Mick Jagger to explain his generation and wrote fearful leaders about student unrest . |
| 22 | I do n't regret it , of course — I might never have been a priest otherwise — but I often think that that 's why I just do n't seem able to come to grips with the modern world . ’ |
| 23 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 24 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 25 | He also worked for several years with the Lutheran World Federation . |
| 26 | It is a metaphor which attempts to create a reality of organization whereby cooperation is mobilised for fight with the outside world . |
| 27 | According to the hunter-gatherer worldview , humans are bound by an elaborate mystical contract with the non-human world , and nature is seen as either neutral or benevolent as long as the terms of the contract — all the rules , rituals and prohibitions — are upheld . |
| 28 | to be free to make and keep contacts with the outside world |
| 29 | Despite its roads Sussex prospered , both as an almost self-sufficient country , and in its contacts with the outside world . |
| 30 | The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world . |