Example sentences of "of all [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 2 | Previously they have kept a vice-like grip on the national purse , pointing out that the government 's debt of ¥165 trillion ( $1.2 trillion ) is bigger than the combined debt of all the world 's poor countries together . |
| 3 | America is the biggest single air-travel market , accounting for more than 40% of all the world 's airline passengers . |
| 4 | The greatest of all the world 's waters , of course , are the oceans ; and they are the subject of the next chapter . |
| 5 | The chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific is known appropriately enough as the ‘ Ring of Fire ’ , and although it 's a much more complex , disjointed affair than it may seem from this brief summary , it is unquestionably one of the Earth 's greatest physical features , and contains a large proportion of all the world 's volcanoes . |
| 6 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |
| 7 | The great projects of understanding have now reached such a scale that , in many cases , they are best served by the united efforts of all the world — or at least , of all those who are interested in pursuing them . |
| 8 | When the next one met , attracting three-quarters of all the world 's 1,050 or so Catholic bishops , it was in the basilica of St Peter 's for the first Vatican Council . |
| 9 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 10 | Of all the world 's great wild mammals , few have suffered so dreadfully this century as the black rhino . |
| 11 | God of all the world |
| 12 | SIR — Gaston and Mound consider that ‘ for the foreseeable future , description of all the world 's species will remain impossible ’ . |
| 13 | It is hardly surprising that the Indonesians have been so profoundly affected by their kinetic environment , for theirs is the most tectonic nation on earth , boasting some 34 per cent of all the world 's active volcanoes , and registering an average of three earthquakes a day measuring over 5 on the Richter scale . |
| 14 | The Atlantic Agreement called " upon the Seamen of all the world for service … to demonstrate practical appreciation of freedom won " , and the American Shipping Act of 1915 had established for seamen on foreign ships a " a right to quit " while in US ports from March 1916 . |
| 15 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 16 | Mexico produced no less than one-third of all the world 's silver , together with copper , lead , gold , and many agricultural products . |
| 17 | But we also need the broad generalizations that help show whether we are closer to meeting the basic needs of all the world 's people than we were at the start of the 1970s . |
| 18 | If he did , then Esso were liable to pay purchase tax ( since abolished ) in respect of all the World Cup coins they had produced . |
| 19 | Audubon , however , was outraged : ‘ Here there are at present three Works publishing on the Birds of Europe ’ , he wrote to his friend Rev. Bachman , from London in 1835 , ’ — one by Mr Gould and the others by no one knows who — at least I do not know — Works on the Birds of all the World are innumerable — Cheap as dirt and more dirty than dirt … ’ |
| 20 | When Neill and Buchanan challenge what is many boxing fans ' most cherished theory , it is worth delving into the social backgrounds of all the world champions and many leading contenders . |