Example sentences of "up in the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 2 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 3 | William will be taught the old values of royal duty as well as being brought up in the modern world , mainly by his mother . |
| 4 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 5 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 6 | Sociology , for what little that is worth , was primarily associated with France and Britain , and enthusiastically taken up in the Latin world . |