Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe itself made up the greater part of what Europeans regarded as the known world . |
| 2 | But it also describes the experience of being caught between the imagined world of art and the everyday world of loss , pain and survival . |
| 3 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 4 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |
| 5 | " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said . |
| 6 | Trapped in the revolving world of afternoon TV , this is a man who would have quite happily recorded the LP from the comfort of his bed had they been able to fit it in the studio . |
| 7 | Outstanding silverware was fabricated in the Classical world . |
| 8 | Compelled to re-enact rituals which appear only as stupid , trapped within the cyclic world of ‘ the love of created beings ’ , Eliot 's characters lead ‘ preord ’ lives of deep horror . |
| 9 | Now this , to outsiders , is an unbelievable world , totally severed from the outside world , utterly divorced from reality . |
| 10 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 11 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |
| 12 | However , although women are no longer as exclusively confined to the private world of the family , it does not mean that their work within the family is valued any more highly or indeed that there is less of it . |
| 13 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 14 | Its dominance was not confined to the academic world ; indeed , it became the intellectual creed of US foreign policy in the late 1940s and 1950s . |
| 15 | However , dramatic recoveries are not confined to the reptilian world . |
| 16 | Operations will then be confined to the English-speaking world — Canada , the UK and Australia . |
| 17 | THE International Ski Federation has decided not to re-schedule the men 's super giant slalom , cancelled at the Alpine world championships in Japan earlier this month . |
| 18 | The conference is being organised by the Baptist World Alliance and is primarily geared to the Baptist perspective , though the conference organisers would welcome participants from other denominations attending the meeting . |
| 19 | The ego is that part of the id which has through perception been modified by the external world . |
| 20 | But can the same be said about the social world ? |
| 21 | For all its faults , it can at least be said for the modern world that it has produced a substantial body of articulate opinion that blends passion with compassion in its concern for the impoverished and starving peoples of the world . |
| 22 | In the fifteenth century the Italian humanists introduced considerable refinement , the ‘ humanistic minuscule ’ was gradually adopted throughout the Christian world , and became the cursive hand which was eventually termed ‘ italic ’ . |
| 23 | But it is an assumption that is made throughout the developing world , where current energy plans would cost $100 billion per year . |
| 24 | So the patron saint had become absorbed into the feudal world . |
| 25 | God works in and through the processes he has built into the natural world . |
| 26 | I did not know this during his lifetime , and used to think him wanting in originality because his mind was absorbed in the mathematical world . ’ |
| 27 | The " ideal village " was separated from the commercialism , moral pollution , and degradation of the city ; home was separated from the outside world and its neighbours by walls , drives and privet hedges . |
| 28 | Cricket had been separated from the real world , taken away from daily life . ’ |
| 29 | Evidence has to be collected from the social world around us , and this requires empirical research to be done . |
| 30 | Various colonies exist under voluntary foundation where the mentally handicapped can live useful and happy lives , to some extent sheltered from the outside world but permitted a considerable degree of independence and self-determination . |