Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 2 | They say that God intervenes directly in a supernatural sense in what goes on in the world . |
| 3 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 5 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 6 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 7 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 8 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 9 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 10 | From what I 've heard he 's come up in the world since he went to work for Christian Timms . |
| 11 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 12 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 13 | CICS/6000 is a good product , Data Logic argues , but falls down because it is now caught up in the world of IBM marketing strategy . |
| 14 | Police believe Gary may have been caught up in the world of drugs and met his death as a result . |
| 15 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 16 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 17 | A GROUP of Belfast residents have moved up in the world — by moving down three or four flights of concrete stairs . |
| 18 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 19 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 20 | So what is going on in the world of higher education today ? |
| 21 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 22 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 23 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 24 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 25 | People often say they are confused by what is going on in the world ; it no longer seems to make sense . |
| 26 | It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world . |
| 27 | and find out what 's going on in the world . |
| 28 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 29 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 30 | be aware of what 's going on in the world in terms of not just employment but further o opportunities . |