Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Westminster model ’ of government was envied by Europeans , rebuilding after the Second World War , and studied by conscientious foreign politicians , engaged in the planning of new nations . |
| 2 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 3 | The panel design will make it possible to track the responses of ordinary members to these internal party changes , and to the changes occurring in the external world . |
| 4 | Edwards , 21 , has played for Australia youth and under-21s and , after appearing in the 1987 World Youth Cup finals in Chile , had 18 months with Rangers without breaking into the first team . |
| 5 | In other words we want to help local enthusiasts to keep in touch with what is happening in the wider world of railways . |
| 6 | AT THIS moment what was happening in the outside world , for a cultural climate is never separate from events ? |
| 7 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 8 | ‘ Where it 's weird , though , is the difficulty of getting a real fix on what 's happening in the outside world . |
| 9 | Now is anything else happening in the sporting world tonight Mickey ? |
| 10 | The day-to-day life of an RAF station went on as usual , no matter what was happening in the big world outside . |
| 11 | But perhaps the best example of Picks System 's idiosyncratic development style is happening in the MD-DOS world , where the company is beta-testing multi-user Pick for MD-DOS — to be released later this year . |
| 12 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 13 | The emphasis on LAN Manager as its primary networking facility ignores the state of networking in the real world . |
| 14 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 15 | Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world . |
| 16 | It 's very difficult to attempt self definition without relating to the occupational world , and you get into the sort of situation where women only have private selves , they do n't have public selves at all , which certainly creates problems of self definition for them . |
| 17 | His contract expired , he moved to Lagonda in 1935 , dangerously returning to the precarious world of the fast car . |
| 18 | You 'll be returning to the glamorous world of rock as soon as he returns . |
| 19 | You can catch a sneak preview of some of the other pictures in this large ( almost 2 foot x 1 foot ) photo calendar by checking on the Third World Greetings Cards you 'll see around the catalogue . |
| 20 | Sir Robert Donald , writing between the two world wars , described them as : ‘ a somewhat primitive community . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 22 | Equally , however , it should be recognised that some writing is about communicating with the outside world and having a say in that world . |
| 23 | Once our boats had been destroyed , we had no means of communicating with the greater world . |
| 24 | Like genii , too , they must be uncorked in a dark room to dance briefly in their own time , before receding into the invisible world of memory again . |
| 25 | But not so , as Volare Volare hangs its flimsy raison d'être around a Roger Rabbit -style conceit of cartoons spilling into the real world and interacting with human beings . |
| 26 | For the skills of interacting with the physical world the procedure summarised in Table 2.6 is appropriate . |
| 27 | He describes the individual interacting with the social world by filling roles that constitute an identity for her : |
| 28 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 29 | In the rest of the region , Israel Radio 's coverage allows those living in the Arab world to hear about events that are censored by their own governments . |
| 30 | For in that they are living in the modern world , and in so far ( one must say ) as they are good persons seeking to do what is right , conservatives must see much of the critique of past patriarchal relationships to be justified . |