Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 2 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 3 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 4 | Well , that 's good if it 's working well , it 's working well , but here , if you 're here , say for a late afternoon meeting or something , and you 're wondering what these screaming bells are , they 're the night bells , and you can pick them up by picking up your handset and pressing 8 and that is it , and you 're through to the outside world . |
| 5 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 6 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 7 | Rated third in the supercomputer market with a significant 16% stake acclaimed to it , AMT 's aim to provide affordable supercomputing systems seemingly paid off to the outside world . |
| 8 | It will also examine the response of fans to structural and cultural changes in Scottish soccer , following the Taylor report on safety , and leading up to the 1994 World Cup Finals . |
| 9 | Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament . |
| 10 | The mill is best remembered as Ayliffe 's Mill , the name of the family associated with it throughout its working life , up to the Second World War . |
| 11 | At Easter 1939 , with Europe once more in the grip of events leading remorselessly up to the Second World War , Leeds Deaf F.C . |
| 12 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 13 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 14 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 15 | Up to the Second World War , different industries in Britain were concentrated in different regions . |
| 16 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 17 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 18 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 19 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 20 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 21 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |
| 22 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 23 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 24 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 25 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 27 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 28 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 29 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 30 | I know how good you are at hiding away inside it when you do n't want to face up to the real world . |