Example sentences of "back to the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 2 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 3 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 4 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 5 | Comparing your performance with other companies ' brings you back to the real world . |
| 6 | Now let's get back to the real world . ’ |
| 7 | Transferring Back to the Real World |
| 8 | His harsh words jerked Folly out of her fantasy and back to the real world . |
| 9 | He told the major he feared that in retiring to the palace he was imprisoning himself and would never be able to escape back to the real world . |
| 10 | Could I say to the minister and bring him back to the real world about regeneration . |
| 11 | Anyway , we need to get back to the other world . ’ |
| 12 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 13 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 14 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 16 | The pattern of raw materials coming from the developing world to this and other developed countries for production and sale of finished goods , often back to the developing world , has changed . |
| 17 | In its Annual Report 1990 published on Sept. 17 , the World Bank revealed that net transfers from the developing world back to the developed world in 1989 totalled US$42,900 million , an increase of $5,300 million over the 1988 figure . |
| 18 | Ready to come back to the unreal world ? ’ |
| 19 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 20 | The dreamings follow a set path as they alter the topography , leaving their potency , or ‘ Guruwari ’ , at specific points en route , before disappearing back to the non-material world at the point where they came in . |
| 21 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |