Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dates have now become a bone of contention in Hong Kong as rugby administrators in the British territory have belatedly realised — even though they are not admitting it — that the Japanese have outsmarted them and gained a precious advantage for the next World Cup . |
| 2 | When the Foreign Secretary visits the Group of Seven summit in the summer , will he bang some heads together to try to bring forward a new deal for the third world ? |
| 3 | Meaningful aid for the Third World |
| 4 | But it is hoped that in doing so , it will also help him to continue his untiring work for the Third World and enrich the lives of those poor people , particularly in Africa . |
| 5 | Only a week ago he was at his usual commentary position for Capital Radio when England took on San Marino in a qualifying match for the next World Cup . |
| 6 | The general committee have also mandated their International Board members to vote for New Zealand as the venue for the next World Cup , due to the continued political uncertainty in South Africa . |
| 7 | WITH REFERENCE to your Editorial ( WCM Aug ) , bearing in mind that the venue for the next World Cup has yet to be confirmed , will this have any bearing on England 's next proposed visit to Pakistan ? |
| 8 | The kettle-out-of-tin-can-makers of Accra , the barefoot engineers of Bombay , and the hawkers of everything-under-the sun of Jakarta were showing flexibility and perhaps even salvation for the Third World poor . |
| 9 | Among other issues raised by delegates , the newly appointed Vice-President of Nigeria , Augustus Aikhomu , suggested that Africa should have representation on the Security Council through a permanent member , while the President of Uganda , Yoweri Museveni , appealed to all UN members to support debt forgiveness for the Third World . |
| 10 | Of Pasolini 's ‘ growing passion for the Third World ’ Enzo Siciliano says : ‘ He had the idea that ‘ Negritude … will be the way' ’ . |
| 11 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 12 | Even those writers who specifically warned against using the historical experiences of contemporary rich countries as a guide for the Third World could not resist drawing some conclusions from the realm of foreign trade . |
| 13 | The spokesman for the First World War Veterans ' Association , Trafford joined up at 15 on the first day of the war , giving his age as 18 . |
| 14 | In the name of modernisation and professionalism , Chinese architects and civil engineers are not prepared to accept for the towns any of those policies which have made their own rural housing programme a model for the Third World . |
| 15 | The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup . |
| 16 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 17 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |
| 18 | In practice , if not in spirit , there is a complete divorce between the ground floor , full of people who have walked in off the street , and the upper floors , where research and development on both hardware and software for the Third World take place . |
| 19 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 20 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |