Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instrumentation and instrumental techniques necessary for bringing the laws of the paradigm to bear on the real world will also be included in the paradigm . |
| 2 | For Hopkins as for Blackwell , feminism centrally meant bringing the private sphere of bourgeois womanhood to bear on the public world of social and moral problems . |
| 3 | The second limitation of this discussion is that it will concentrate on the Graeco-Roman world , as this was a period when coin designs were at their most varied . |
| 4 | The abstract musings of macroeconomists did not encroach on the hard world of economic decision making . |
| 5 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |
| 6 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 7 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 8 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |
| 9 | There is to be a new security system , based on the Arab world in one form or another . |
| 10 | This — Francis 's first of more than thirty novels all loosely based on the racing world — has been picked almost at random , for each of them is masterful . |
| 11 | His own thinking over the next three years was developed , accordingly , through successive disagreements with Lyell 's views on the organic world , while he continued to accept his mentor 's teaching on the physical world of land , sea and climate changes . |
| 12 | God 's wrath cast a shadow upon the earth , and the fallen angels settled on the darkened world like vultures on a dying prey . |
| 13 | Future growth relies on the industrial world . |
| 14 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 15 | To people in racing , there was nothing more suspect than a professional who allowed outside concerns to impinge on the real world — the world of racing . |
| 16 | He was fully aware of the blasphemy implicit in suggesting that human beings were not created by God as separate and distinct from nature , and of the turmoil that such a theory would release on the Victorian world . |