Example sentences of "of a world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was involved in a protest in the morning race of a world championship and the hearing was not until later that evening . |
| 2 | And hopes are high that the Mersey could soon be the scene of a world championship powerboat event . |
| 3 | If a fully systemic answer to the problem were to prevail , something very ambitious would be needed , for instance the positing of a World Spirit to guide human history , as Hegelians and Absolute Idealists have sometimes seemed to suggest . |
| 4 | Its conclusions are based on the assertion that there is in fact little likelihood of a world shortage of timber in the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | MARGARET THATCHER yesterday portrayed her Conservative government as the pioneers of a world revolution , sweeping socialism from Britain and now inspiring the people of Eastern Europe to throw off their chains . |
| 6 | In 1979 , we knew that we were starting a British revolution ; in fact , we were the pioneers of a world revolution . ’ |
| 7 | She told her party conference in Blackpool : ‘ In 1979 , we knew that we were starting a British revolution ; in fact , we were pioneers of a world revolution . |
| 8 | They 're in the middle of a world tour , playing new and traditional songs . |
| 9 | An official spokesman said on June 20 that the government did not intend to suspend work on the Narmada River irrigation projects despite the recommendations of a World Bank-commissioned study , released on June 19 , which highlighted the project 's extensive damage to the environment and threat to the way of life of the local tribal population . |
| 10 | In Al Ain , in this little patch of paradise blossoming lushly from the fertiliser of a world petroleum market , there was no problem . |
| 11 | In Britain , the IT industry is small by world standards , producing £3000 million worth of goods per year out of a world total of £50000 million . |
| 12 | Use of the pesticide in the EC amounts to 14,000 tonnes annually , out of a world total of 66,000 tonnes . |
| 13 | This was in the context of a world trading system geared to the industrial needs of Europe : as these intensified , the required scale of production in Africa gave an overwhelming advantage to the Europeans , with their store of skills and technology . |
| 14 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 15 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 16 | How well this will be done , in the midst of a world recession and current difficulties in most countries with high unemployment , remains to be seen . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman well knows , we are in the midst of a world recession . |
| 18 | To what does my right hon. Friend attribute that success in the middle of a world recession ? |
| 19 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 20 | The US , faced by the revival of European and Japanese competition , by inflation and the costs of the Vietnam war , could no longer remain the foundation stone of a world currency system and the dollar had been ‘ floated ’ in August 1971 . |
| 21 | CHRIS Pyatt begins a three-fight chase for the chance of a world title with Matchroom promoter Barry Hearn warning : ‘ It 's make or break time . ’ |
| 22 | McKenzie is Britain 's only fighter this century to win versions of a world title after previously holding the IBF flyweight crown and WBO bantamweight championship . |
| 23 | A world state , even assuming that it is a highly-devolved federal state , would involve compulsory and sanctioned jurisdiction on a wide range of issues at present regarded as central to the existence of the individual sovereign states which would have to become the subordinate parts of a world state . |
| 24 | Further while municipal law can survive a fairly high incidence of order-violation and still fulfil its ordering function , the nature of international conflict is such that comparatively few violations , perhaps only one attempt to resist the lawful force of a world state , might be more than enough to undermine the rationale for the whole edifice of peace law . |
| 25 | It was powerful enough to swallow the heavy might of a world superpower , and to affect that country so greatly , that it dominated the politics in the States for over ten years and massive pressure was put on the government by the US people . |
| 26 | Civil aviation is a major industry with an economic impact on the employment market of at least 21 million jobs , and which is the core of a world travel tourism activity representing 5.5 per cent of the gross national product of the entire world . |
| 27 | Ah , fabulous Peter , tremendous Cup Tie , great display by Oxford United and the showing of a world class footballer for everybody to see . |
| 28 | Soil geography has also had a well established legacy of soil maps which have attempted to relate the one extreme of detailed soil survey to the other of a world distribution . |
| 29 | For all that England are the only European nation not to concede a goal in the qualifying tournament , it is no exaggeration to suggest they have never been so ill-equipped for the persistent rigours of a World Cup . |
| 30 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |