Example sentences of "[pers pn] in the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world . |
| 2 | For obvious reasons we have a close professional tie with those of you in the educational world . |
| 3 | ‘ We hope to bring our African brethren , who we in the western world have exploited so much in past centuries , some of the spiritual heritage of our European Christian culture in the form of the contemplative monastic life which in time will be adapted and enriched by the beauty and spontaneity of African worship and culture as they come to join us , ’ said Sister Bernadette . |
| 4 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 5 | He was going to pick them up out of the gutter and establish them in the monied world where he knew they belonged . |
| 6 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 7 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 8 | The manipulation of this internal world may provide a safe basis for trying out combinations and ideas prior to , and sometimes instead of , attempting them in the real world . |
| 9 | An increasing number of factories and other enterprises were being constructed in foreign countries : by 1989 over 3,500 had been built , most of them in the socialist world but nearly 900 in developing countries . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ I do work with him in the commercial world — but I have no involvement in his politics . ’ |
| 11 | God raised us up with him to rule with him in the heavenly world . |
| 12 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly she was deeply afraid of what awaited her in the other world beyond it . |
| 14 | He did n't want to tempt fate , but fate had brought them together again and now there was only him and her in the whole world . |
| 15 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 16 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 17 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 18 | and if you wan na do something slightly different then do it in a role play scenario with a manager or a senior adviser and er get their feedback accordingly but I 'd be te I would n't be tempted to do it in the real world . |
| 19 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 20 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 21 | But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself . |
| 22 | Those of us in the disabled world are weary of words without action . |
| 23 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 24 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 25 | What you have seen today may well be the best lesson you will ever learn of the difficulties facing us in the outside world . |
| 26 | How does that help us in the outside world if people know that we we give good training ? |
| 27 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 28 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |