Example sentences of "[adj] world where [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nowhere in the Old World where the threat of marauding greenskins is completely unknown . |
| 2 | The detective has therefore moved away from the centrally important activity of seizing the villains into a manipulated world where the paper exercise of statistical detections is used to assuage politicians , the media , and a public obsessed with the moral panic of increasing crime rates . |
| 3 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 4 | That would be too unfashionable in the narrow confines of popular culture , and uncomfortable in a real world where the desire for a new video recorder is part of your coding . |
| 5 | The managerial bourgeoisie is the key class in a post-imperialist world where the struggle between capital and labour , and probably capitalism and communism too , has become less important . |
| 6 | I want a decent world where a man can stand on his own two feet , etcetera , etcetera , etcetera . ’ ’ |
| 7 | Go to a provincial Italian opera house and you enter a quintessentially Italian world where the relationship between performers and audience is a private ritual . |
| 8 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 9 | A similar displacement occurred much earlier in the New World where the enconomienda system was established in Latin America and a plantation economy in the Caribbean islands , both of which suddenly displaced local cultivators . |