Example sentences of "to see the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | They exist , theorists believe , because they help us to see the world as it really is . |
| 2 | We need to know how to see the world as the Christian Fathers saw it ; and the purpose of reascending to origins is that we should be able to return , with greater spiritual knowledge , to our own situation . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 4 | The main block is that the London-based mandarins of the BCS still appear to see the world from the seventies standpoint of the large data processing installation or university department , full of Cobol or Fortran programmers , churning out hand-crafted systems for mainframes . |
| 5 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 6 | Some 15,000 spectators — mostly from California — had come to see the world 's greatest horse , who had top weight of nine stone three pounds in a field of eleven . |
| 7 | And she had lost the ability to see the world without being aware of being aware of it . |
| 8 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 9 | The case can make no pretension to scientific detachment : it is a declaration of nationalist faith , a recommendation of how we ought to see the world , not how it is . |
| 10 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |
| 11 | People have always travelled to see the world and to find out how other people live . |
| 12 | If we live on continents , we tend to see the world as land inconveniently dissected by expanses of water . |
| 13 | It is an age-old heresy to see the world as a battleground between the forces of good and evil . |
| 14 | ‘ Let her go , ’ they might say , ‘ give her a chance to see the world , after all who is she going to meet round here ? ’ |
| 15 | I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view . |
| 16 | The couple had encouraged and followed their son 's sporting progress right across South Africa , but they were n't able to afford the trip to Australia to see the World Cup challenge . |
| 17 | I came to see the world as an abundant and joyous place to be . |
| 18 | In Elizabeth 's third novel , A View of the Harbour ( 1947 ) , Beth , a novelist and the first artist to appear in her work , is a woman who seldom goes out of her house , and every time she does so , it is to see the world with the new vision of a convalescent . |
| 19 | ‘ Who the fuck wants to see the world like it really is ? ’ said Stan . |
| 20 | A YOUNG council worker , who quit his job to see the world with his fiancee , died in a boating accident yesterday . |
| 21 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 22 | I was determined to see the world 's first dawn , and to greet the first people on the planet — true Pacific people at that — who were planning to take a stab at their day . |
| 23 | Clearly , if one is interested in deviant groups , and is convinced that the way to understanding their behaviour is to see the world from their point of view , the best way to achieve this is by becoming deeply involved in their way of life . |
| 24 | With his keen sense of the complexity of situations , he refused to see the world or the Church in black-and-white terms . |
| 25 | Bernard Williams defines the respect that is owed to all persons as an effort of understanding , ‘ to see the world from his point of view ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Dr Traber added that ‘ for both the media and the theologians , the problem of how to see the world with new eyes should be tackled first by a removal of ideological blinkers which have been worn for so long . ’ |
| 27 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 28 | After twenty minutes or so with the list broker you start to see the world as he does . |
| 29 | Is it then to see the world filled with drooping , superannuated , half-starved , helpless and unhelped animals , that you would alter the present system of pursuit and prey ? |
| 30 | You ca n't love someone without imaginative sympathy , without beginning to see the world from another point of view . |