Example sentences of "[prep] the world at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one found only in the West , e.g. in the course of excavations in the City of London , he appears as a handsome bull-slaying god , signifying the renewal of the world at the time of the New Year . |
| 2 | Early maps exist to show how people conceived of the world at the time , but unless made of durable material , like this mosaic , such maps have not survived . |
| 3 | Staff of the York-based Yorkshire and Humberside Tourist Board will be selling the region to some 2,000 tour and travel operators from all parts of the world at the new British Travel Trade Fair at Birmingham 's NEC next week . |
| 4 | Is it , can we attribute this sort of thing to the erm areas of drought , the areas of flooding that are occurring in various parts of the world at the moment , and all these sorts of things , and we have branches looking into this . |
| 5 | That he is ranked only No 4 in the world at the moment is due to the eccentricity of the system . |
| 6 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 7 | As for Nick Farr-Jones ; ‘ I admire him , he 's the best in the world at the moment for his reading of the game and for his organisation of the team on the field ’ . |
| 8 | Normally , the Italian is one of the two or three best in the world at the latter event and this opening race will gauge her recovery . |
| 9 | ‘ If there 's a better full- back in the world at the moment I want see him said Hetherington . ’ |
| 10 | Lendl was the number one player in the world at the time . |
| 11 | Around forty of these drawings have been known for years from books and exhibitions , but as things are , I am the only person in the world at the moment to have complete knowledge of what that collection was in its entirety . |
| 12 | Edo mushroomed from the late sixteenth century and had an estimated population of around one million by the mid-eighteenth century , probably making it the largest city in the world at the time . |
| 13 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 14 | But my feeling is that the sort of run-of-the-mill , solid English composer , I say solid — they are not actually solid — but I mean the Harrison Birtwhistles , the Maxwell Davises of this world are some of the most interesting people in the world at the moment . |
| 15 | WE get thousands of pieces of paperwork from all over the world at the Matchroom : fan mail , bills and God knows what else . |
| 16 | I I wonder really , the only rational appro , response to the world at the moment is n't to be depressed , I mean , everyone looks around famines in Africa , and war and jus and depredation |
| 17 | The DB 7 's revealed to the world at the Geneva Motor Show today . |
| 18 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |
| 19 | There can be no doubt of the widespread feelings of horror felt across the world at the thought of the use of nuclear weapons , in however ‘ limited ’ a way , and therefore the unacceptability of the view that their use could be justified as legitimate . |
| 20 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 21 | What the bulls like is Britain 's new political certainty — a rare commodity around the world at the moment with so many major powers facing elections or new leaders — and the belief that London shares are cheap by international standards . |