Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] a world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iranian Pourfarrokh created Vertex in response to TV news reports on the Gulf War … the bursting forth of everything we feel in a world of unfulfilled dreams … dreams which are as varied as the people who dream them … a poem told through the bodies of the poets : the dancers . |
| 2 | We know that we can open them , and when we use them we go into a world full of exciting possibilities . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Since you are a wizard of sorts , you are of course aware that we live upon a world shaped , as it were , like a disc ? |
| 4 | We live in a world of uncertainty , where the politicians , church leaders and others have failed . |
| 5 | We live in a world in which one third of the population consumes two thirds of the world 's resources . |
| 6 | We live in a world of perceptions , not reality . |
| 7 | Janet Lacey says : ‘ We live in a world where , in many places , social injustice is the order of the day , where 15,000 people die of hunger each day , where racial discrimination is practised unnoticed on our doorsteps and where political action is disappointing … |
| 8 | We live in a world that operates on greed , on aggression , on violence and cruelty . |
| 9 | We live in a world like the Gandavyuha — a place of transparent beauty . |
| 10 | Yet , at the same time , we live in a world which in reality is predominantly made up of couples and families . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe we live in a world which is marred deeply by crudity and vulgarity , bereft of beauty , culturally impoverished to an amazing degree . |
| 12 | We live in a world where food temptations flaunt themselves all around us . |
| 13 | Living in modernity facilitates this belief because we live in a world of rapidly changing fashions and technologies . |
| 14 | We live in a world where there is an enormous pressure on the stability of marriage . |
| 15 | Yet by the mid 1970s policy-makers , convinced that we live in a world of free markets , began to display an implied belief in its basic tenets ( Brittan , 1975 ; Harris and Sewill , 1975 ] . |
| 16 | I know that Basil saw no simple future at the end of human life because we talked of this last summer ; neither can I. But I do believe that we live in a world whose climate of thought and feeling is created by human beings , many of whom have lived before us , often but little recognised . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , yes , but we live in a world gone mad . |
| 18 | Or , as Plato writes , we live in a world of dreams , the realities are beyond us . ’ |
| 19 | We live in a world where there are few easy profits and many easy losses to be made , especially when the wrong advice is given . |
| 20 | We live in a world of unimaginable plenty , unbelievable surplus . |
| 21 | We live in a world of surplus but ca n't bring ourselves to believe that we do . |
| 22 | We live in a world that is not developing uniformly . |
| 23 | Gary Duckers , of insurance brokers Richard Bamber , said : ‘ We live in a world of no-claim bonuses , not no-blame bonuses . ’ |