Example sentences of "to change the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to go into politics if you wanted to change the world . |
| 2 | No big mission , no feeling that I was going to change the world with my music . |
| 3 | She did not believe that it was going to change the world or that every minute detail was worth the drama and emotionalism that the others seemed to want to pour into it . |
| 4 | But more importantly , as far as Roddick is concerned , each franchised outlet is required to take on a community project in its area , which she believes gives the young women in the organisation additional status and helps them to realise that everybody has the ability to change the world for the better . |
| 5 | Unless we understand this process we will remain as superstitious and powerless to change the world for the better as were our forebearers . |
| 6 | To change the religion of the Roman empire was to change the world . |
| 7 | ‘ You want to change the world and you ca n't change a washer . ’ |
| 8 | THE BRAIN EMO story PART 2 : ‘ He tried to change the world by turning it on its side and calling it something else ’ |
| 9 | The hermetic atmosphere in which the election was conducted was a celebration of the monotheistic religion of the market system , the diminishing of our capacity to change the world , the extinction of social hope . |
| 10 | Today we have less confidence than before in the power of more external , socially oriented ideologies to change the world . |
| 11 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
| 12 | I promise to change the world |
| 13 | In a good adventure story the heroes are going to change the world almost single handedly against all the odds , and come through unscathed . |
| 14 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 15 | GREAT POP THINGS — THE PHIL COLLINS STORY ( Prelude to All Hate Special ) : ‘ HE TRIED TO CHANGE THE WORLD WITH HIS ALL ROUND VERSATILITY ’ |
| 16 | An organisation embodying what its members want out of life now , the beginning of totality through total opposition , and what we do to change the world being enjoyable in itself , not a sacrifice ‘ |
| 17 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 18 | That is why self-conscious fictional experimentation like stream-of-consciousness tends in its social effects to be conservative , whatever its aspirations ; and the later fiction of Joyce and Virginia Woolf can not be seen to embody any serious proposal to change the world , or to represent a belief that the world could ever be changed . |
| 19 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 20 | AIX Expo and the Power Solutions Conference , the exclusively IBM shindig , has been scheduled for October 20–23 at the San Jose Convention Centre in California : they expect to change the world . |
| 21 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 22 | Philip Gould ( right ) : his underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place . |
| 23 | That meant ideas , understanding people , searching for motives ; he did n't want to change the world as Anna did and Constanza in her early years . |
| 24 | It is clear that Marxist literary critics … feel acutely their impotence as individuals to change the world . |
| 25 | In our youth , the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies , we had the same thing , only we were the generation who were going to change the world . |
| 26 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 27 | We assumed we were going to change the world . |
| 28 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 29 | This development in ski goggles from Solar is not going to change the world , but it 's interesting nonetheless . |
| 30 | I wanted to change the world , but they stopped me . |