Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 . |
| 2 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Outstanding silverware was fabricated in the Classical world . |
| 5 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 6 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 9 | Two other famous examples suffered in the Second World War . |
| 10 | When anything is being grown in the Third World , the United States seems to stand ready to supply all the technical inputs required . |
| 11 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 12 | This system was widely adopted in the ancient world , although the ‘ social diffusion of writing ’ was slow , mainly due to ‘ the established features of the societies which adopted it . |
| 13 | In a ballot paper that ran to 39 pages , the bill stipulated some of the toughest environmental regulations yet seen in the industrial world . |
| 14 | The promptness with which the US rejected Iraq 's February 15 offer , widely seen in the Arab world as a genuine peace initiative , can only serve to confirm this view . |
| 15 | A cellular automaton is a mathematical model which has , like DNA , the power of self-replication , and the principle of cellular automata is believed to underlie a number of the phenomena seen in the natural world , such as the complex patterns of colour on the shells of some molluscs , the coat patterns of some mammalian species and the vortex patterns of water . |
| 16 | The duty operated in the real world in which there would always be obstacles to giving every shade of opinion equal air time . |
| 17 | Scarlet 's mother had moved in the Bohemian world of Chelsea in the years immediately post-war and had acquired the air of insouciant , amoral aristocracy combined with a certain self-righteousness arising from the consciousness of being both aesthetically and ( at base ) morally correct which had characterized that society at that time . |
| 18 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 19 | To put that off , she needed to make headway that would be noticed in the real world . |
| 20 | It is significant that the states defeated in the second world war , on which a higher degree of devolution was imposed — presumably in reaction against fascist centralisation — lack most of the separatist movements of the rest of Western Europe , though on paper Bavaria and Sicily are at least as obvious breeding- grounds for such movements as Scotland and the francophone parts of the Bernese Jura . |
| 21 | The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad . |
| 22 | ‘ One or two working party members felt there was no point in taking as many students on to courses if the practice placements were n't available and their skills were n't going to be needed in the new world . ’ |
| 23 | There was still hope for Britain if the old qualities of stoicism and the knack of handling ‘ native ’ races could be combined with the scientific and management skills needed in the modern world . |
| 24 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 25 | In practical terms this meant replacing processes of superego-formation in child-rearing and initiation ritual with mechanisms of state law-enforcement — parallel processes of superego-degradation and increasing state control which , as we shall see , seem well advanced in the modern world and which therefore constitute a similar danger . |
| 26 | Sometimes the coercion and oppression is felt directly in the paintings : for example , in images of Saint Isidore , a rather obscure Spanish saint vastly amplified in the New World as the patron of labourers , who is shown to carry a small bag of coca leaves as the Indian peasants and miners did , and do , to chew to combat hunger and fatigue . |
| 27 | But in the developing world the rate of increase in food production has been exceeded by the rate of increase of the population , and now there is not enough food being produced in the developing world for the local population . |
| 28 | many crops produced in the Third World go to fatten up livestock for Westerners ' consumption |
| 29 | They forget that theory must be rooted in the actual world of experience . " |
| 30 | In the 1920 's a new high altar and reredos was erected as a memorial to those parishioners who had died in the First World War . |