Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , these taxes are still levied by many Third World governments because they are straightforward to collect and hard to evade . |
| 2 | For example , in the 1980s the UK appears to have hosted parts of an international car industry because it could provide a relatively cheap , disciplined and flexible labour force and , as a resuIt , the parts of the production process it could host were similar to those found in some Third World countries . |
| 3 | All the development aid that has gone to many third world countries comes back twofold and threefold through interest payments on the debt , underpayment for commodities and the over-profitability of multinational corporations . |
| 4 | These attitudes of highly theoretical , catechistic science as being ‘ better ’ ( or more ‘ proper ’ ) have continued in many Third World countries since independence . |
| 5 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 6 | A few days later , I was standing in another third world airport . |
| 7 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 8 | Here was a leader of both stature and vision who understood the power politics of the contemporary world and who eschewed the vague rhetorical generalizations favoured by many Third World leaders . |