Example sentences of "and [verb] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to over-hype it , but it would be equally wrong to underestimate what Tencel might be , which is the beginning of a new industry that could be both material to Courtaulds and change the world fibre industry completely . |
| 2 | It is in this family that the child is taught to make basic distinctions between self and others , or between male and female , to acquire and to use language , and to develop a framework through which to understand , interpret and evaluate the world outside . |
| 3 | WRECK ‘ N ’ ROLL : The Beatles were to leave Liverpool and conquer the world |
| 4 | Secondly , he distinguished between four different ‘ function types ’ , based on the way people perceive and judge the world . |
| 5 | But it is Judit to whom the chess world most readily gives the title of genius : last year , aged 13 , she achieved a Grandmaster norm and became the world 's top-ranking woman player . |
| 6 | But a curious deterrence this , which aims to restrain states only to unleash peoples , to intensify rather than mitigate conflict and make the world safe for revolution rather than order . |
| 7 | Special article on Latin America , read that later , perhaps little wandel down to pub garden at lunch carrying the paper , treat outing ½ pint and seeing the world , back to nice clean house still one 's own no interruptions . |
| 8 | SUMMERCHILD : A feeling of — I don t know — looking down and seeing the world stretching away over the horizon . |
| 9 | Learning to sail and seeing the world will be wonderful . |
| 10 | To such critics , postmodernism 's self-reflexiveness seems a renunciation , in favour of a sterile narcissism , of the novel 's potential to shape and assimilate the world for its readers . |
| 11 | Language development is about improved thinking for greater grasp of the world , for exploring the world and enjoying the world . |
| 12 | It is as if the genes reached outside their ‘ own ’ body and manipulated the world outside . |
| 13 | OCLC , a non-profit computer library service and research organisation , is based in Dublin , Ohio , and has the world 's largest bibliographic information database and network linked to more than 16,000 libraries in 47 countries and territories . |
| 14 | David Deacon of GEC Energy Systems designed and built the world 's first large air-cooled dry-store ( essentially an air-conditioned concrete box ) at the Wylfa nuclear power station in North Wales in 1976 . |
| 15 | I close my eyes and forget the world . |
| 16 | Large corporations are accused of exercising both economic and political power for their own rather than the public interest , of exploiting their workers , polluting the environment and stripping the world of its natural resources . |
| 17 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 18 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 19 | Now why do n't you take your croaky-faced mate and sod off back to boring boxed set land and bother the world no more ! |
| 20 | But I have adopted the French habit of diluting wine with water , and so I ate my breakfast in solitary state this morning and regarded the world with quite a sparkling eye . |
| 21 | Effectively , García Márquez is here waiving any claim to be ‘ telling it the way it is ’ , for the new novelists no longer share traditional realist fiction 's confident assumption of man 's ability to understand and describe the world . |
| 22 | They mocked each other mercilessly , made a comedy of the simplest incident and drew the world into their pantomime . |
| 23 | Stan has now rediscovered the fish bed and is currently preparing new specimens to astonish and delight the world . |
| 24 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 25 | has a great education value for children , it helps to form their personality and character , it allows them to exercise their imagination and explore the world of fantasy . |
| 26 | But most of all eagles wanted to see the young take flight , and venture away from their parents and explore the world where they , like the adults , must learn to survive the winter . |
| 27 | People take a couple of years off , buy a camper and explore the world . |
| 28 | Men who had known and endured the world . |
| 29 | Whether the headlong rush to develop and industrialise the world 's last great wild places can be controlled to ensure the survival of the unique river dolphins will depend on how the respective governments accept their responsibilities to care for and conserve the wonders of natural evolution . |
| 30 | TELEVISION celebrity Keith Chegwin mustered all his courage yesterday and told the world : ‘ I 'm an alcoholic ’ . |