Example sentences of "the world [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world turns a shade greyer . |
| 2 | The world becomes a community , which is influenced by the small elite who control the media . |
| 3 | I love Moscow , and I think its beauties are many , but I think also that only the Van Cliburn coalition , casting its own magic so thick around itself that all the world becomes a glittering study in delight , could make one feel that it is the happiest and nicest and most cosy-comfortable spot on earth . |
| 4 | A resource-based classification of the nations of the world represents a step towards this goal ( see Cole , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | To reach the rest of the world requires a complicated system of phone and fax connections , says Hajrich . |
| 6 | We have then reached the absurd position that nothing in the world possesses a knowable intrinsic or qualitative nature , for all properties are essentially relational . |
| 7 | Sweden 's National team is here as well as the champions of six other European countries , and from halfway across the world comes a young Maori whom some critics think is good enough to take the trophy back to New Zealand . |
| 8 | THE war on violence will be won only if the world makes a determined effort to stop the flow of arms to trouble spots . |
| 9 | Consciousness of the world comprises a form of re-presentation of the current perceptual input on a mental screen so that a constant awareness of a monitoring process arises . |
| 10 | You 're right : the world owes a lot to ‘ clear American leadership ’ for keeping the peace in Europe and Asia ( ‘ All over bar the shooting ’ , December 15th ) . |
| 11 | The world sees a woman , in a way it does not see a man , as old or young , sexual or non-sexual , defining her frequently by nothing other than her biological role : mother , spouse , grandmother , widow . |
| 12 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 13 | Of course , you 're only fooling around , but it 's truly a moment of magic You 're with someone else 's wife , and the rest of the world seems a million miles away . |
| 14 | The need to assess the likelihood of possible future changes in the climates of the world provides a strong reason for encouraging research on these problems , and is reinforced by the recognition that human activities are developing towards a scale from which significant effects on world climate might arise within the next century … |
| 15 | A simple education — no country in the world has a future without it . |
| 16 | People everywhere thrive on gossip : the world has a village mentality . |
| 17 | Christian Barman , who had written of Britain 's country stations ‘ No country in the world has a collection of minor stations that can begin to compare with ours for sheer quality ’ , prepared for the Great Western Railway just after the war a detailed prospectus for the modernization and transformation of the company 's image , operations , and buildings after the lifting of wartime restrictions . |
| 18 | But the world has a surplus of plutonium , even without extra supplies coming from disarmament . |
| 19 | Apparently the world has a notional pool of capital . |
| 20 | You could have erm a function erm everyone , let's assume everyone in the world has a name . |
| 21 | Nowhere in the world has a minimum wage not caused higher unemployment . |
| 22 | Thanks to the determination and vision of Canadian Bob Spence and friends , the world has a second airworthy Fairey Swordfish . |
| 23 | ALL the world loves a lover and everyone will love our latest , free competition . |
| 24 | They say that the world loves a lover and I think this is true . |