Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oscar , I said , let me take you to Coney Island , it 's like Brighton , I think , the Brighton of the New World . |
| 2 | The battle was a great victory for the Knights of the Old World , made all the remarkable by a strange and prophetic occurrence . |
| 3 | There are examples in Chartres and a few have survived the devastation in Normandy of the Second World War at Lisieux , Caen and Rouen . |
| 4 | The other writer who has deeply interested me is Jan Struther , the Mrs Miniver of the Second World War . |
| 5 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 6 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 7 | He drew strong criticism from Jews and many gentile Poles , by comparing abortion with the Holocaust of the Second World War , when 600,000 Polish citizens were murdered . |
| 8 | But what is striking is not so much the fact that Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer were , after all , persons of some intellectual stature , than that men who were once regarded as the Aristotles of the modern world have practically vanished from sight . |
| 9 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 10 | In short , Broadway is now the symbolic epicentre of Manhattan 's new-found reputation as the Calcutta of the New World . |
| 11 | ARCHITECTURAL Tours ( 01-267 6497 ) offers a 10-day tour to Los Angeles , ‘ the architectural Mecca of the Western world ’ , to visit many of the buildings including those by Frank Lloyd Wright , Frank Gehry , Ray and Charles Eames , M Schindler , art galleries and museums — as well as the opportunity to visit several architects ' practices . |
| 12 | And The First Wives Club has been described as ‘ the Thelma and Louise of the corporate world ’ . |