Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of academic perspectives covered is broad enough to satisfy the literary specialist 's desire that literature should relate to the world , yet the comparatively rigorous analytical approach to literary studies is very appealing to those who , like myself , have interests which are primarily linguistic and communicative rather than literary . |
| 2 | By contrast , God willed that ‘ the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein ’ . |
| 3 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 4 | We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain . |
| 5 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 6 | We must prove to the world that not only have we grown rapidly , but that we are now a mature company and an industry leader . |
| 7 | But although we must operate throughout the world , we can not ignore the national differences in the marketplace . |
| 8 | In the early 1980s came competitive procurement — the idea that officials should shop around the world for arms , rather than restrict themselves ( like officials in most other western countries ) to buying from domestic suppliers . |
| 9 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 10 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 11 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |
| 12 | She said Nikita 's earned so much , say I 'll go round the world , you know the young ones . |
| 13 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |
| 14 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 15 | Sydney had some way to go before it was released from the burden of compulsive immigration , and before it could present to the world a face that was uniquely its own . |
| 16 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 17 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 18 | He does not ask us to emulate him : we are not divine , and none of us could die for the world . |
| 19 | I 'd go that 'd go round the world that would ! |
| 20 | I missed the joy of knowing , in the back of my mind , that someone wanted me , that sometimes , when we could manage it , I could escape from the world of work , washing and worrying into a place of pure pleasure . |
| 21 | and I was saying that it 's a big boat that used to go across the world . |
| 22 | BRAZIL 's 1-0 victory over what amounted to a Holland B team in Rotterdam on Wednesday night continued the process of pragmatic regeneration they have undergone since the desultory performances in Europe last summer which left some observers wondering whether they would qualify for the World Cup at all . |
| 23 | The kings had been pretty poor specimens as ‘ sons ’ : they showed little enough of Yahweh 's family likeness , and there was a long-standing hope in Israel that one day God would bring into the world a messianic Son , a worthy ruler to sit on David 's throne . |
| 24 | Nothing else would matter in the world today … . |
| 25 | Nothing else would matter in the world today , |
| 26 | Now he was about to return to America , a bachelor who would sail round the world on various cutters and schooners . |
| 27 | Huy wondered how Surere would react to the world he found himself in now . |
| 28 | This commercial imperialism was reflected in the liberal social evolutionism of the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , which assumed that laissez-faire individualism would spread around the world by simply demonstrating its efficiency as an economic system . |
| 29 | A total of US$395,000,000 would come from the World Bank ( $65,000,000 ) , Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) ( $200,000,000 ) , United Nations ( $65,000,000 ) and the Andean Promotion Corporation ( CAF ) ( $65,000,000 ) . |
| 30 | In the days leading up to this fight to decide who would fight for the world title next year , Violet had been steeling herself to be tough and resilient for the sake of her son . |