Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | His meetings were arranged by the World Council of Churches which is one of the few non-government organisations represented in the country . |
| 2 | The CIS was formally established at a meeting in Alma Ata , when assurances were given to the world community that single control would be maintained over the nuclear weapons on former Soviet territory , and that the treaty obligations of the Soviet Union would be respected by the newly independent states . |
| 3 | Religious of course were withdrawn from the world . |
| 4 | Newcastle were handicapped by the absence of David Bargh and Mark Thorpe , who were competing in the World Pairs semi-finals in Germany . |
| 5 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 6 | In four polar summers nearly 4000 specimens were added to the world 's meteorite collections ( see Box I ) . |
| 7 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
| 8 | The nineteen eighty two to three event was one of the most severe on record and its affects were felt around the world . |
| 9 | Even before the sculptures were revealed to the world , artists of no less authority than Renoir and Mary Cassatt declared them to be among Degas ' greatest achievements . |
| 10 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 11 | The report of the Third Committee that dealt with the topic , Population and the Family , for instance , while noting that " high infant mortality was especially recognized as a deterrent to fertility decline " and , consequently , two recommendations to this effect were adopted by the World Population Plan of Action , also mentioned that " It was widely acknowledged that the ability to determine the number and spacing of children influences family well-being , partly because of the effect upon the health of both mothers and children . " |
| 12 | To acquire exhibits , contacts were made with the world 's most notorious Hendrix archivists and scholars , fanatical characters obsessed with the guitarist . |
| 13 | Last year more than 12 million Z80 chips were sold around the world and incorporated into computers , telecommunications equipment and peripherals . |
| 14 | Britain were relegated from the World Group in 1987 after playing both Mexico and Yugoslavia away on clay and , following two unsuccessful attempts , they beat both Poland in Warsaw and Austria in Manchester last year to win back their place among the world 's top 16 tennis nations . |
| 15 | He tackled the problem on at least five separate occasions , and his results ( especially one in the 1866 survey of standards of length ) were employed throughout the world . |
| 16 | The dangers facing Venice were brought to the world 's attention in 1966 when high winds and tides turned the city into a lake . |
| 17 | Rehabilitation services were boosted by the world wars , which greatly increased the numbers of severely disabled persons needing help in adjusting to their handicaps and finding suitable employment . |
| 18 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 19 | " Sustainable economic growth and the reduction in poverty " were defined as the World Bank 's main priorities in 1993 , according to its annual report released on Sept. 16 . |
| 20 | Movies were announced to the world by electric signs , posters , music , and barkers . |
| 21 | Two new loans to promote rural education and to finance agricultural projects worth dollars 273,000,000 were announced by the World Bank president , Barber Conable , after a meeting on July 19-21 , 1989 , with Moroccan government officials , bankers and businesspeople in Casablanca . |
| 22 | These ‘ Masters ’ were said to be the hidden wise men who were spread around the world with the aim of bringing in a New World Order . |
| 23 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 24 | Added to this there was the alarming , although on closer inspection ambiguous , evidence of concerted communist plans for Asia as a whole that were discussed at the World Federation of Democratic Youth Conference in Calcutta in February 1948 . |
| 25 | Comparisons in blood are an inadequate measure of courage or military achievement , but these raiders ' losses were a far greater proportion of their force — 369 from 611 army and naval personnel — than were lost in the World War I blocking of Zeebrugge when 195 men were killed from a force of 1,784 . |
| 26 | Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach . |
| 27 | Hamburg 's local government had seen the results of generous film funding in Berlin : the city became attractive to film-makers , work came pouring in and attractive or interesting images of Berlin were sent around the world . |
| 28 | Many improvements were made to the Bank Quay works , and Crosfields ' products were marketed throughout the world . |
| 29 | They were published around the world during 1987 beginning in MANCHETE , ( Brazil ) 16 May ( " Serra Pelado — A Torre de Babel desce ao inferno " ) , followed by THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE , London , on 24 May ( " In the Hellhole " ) and then in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE , 7 June ( " An Epic Struggle for Gold " ) . |
| 30 | The race was successfully held the following day , but with no major success for the British team and indeed that state of affairs was to continue at the world cups before Christmas , at Val d'Isere and Val Gardena , with the exception of my brother Graham 's reasonable 32nd place at Val d'Isere , just two seconds down on the winner . |