Example sentences of "from the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 2 | March 1953 , by which time United Soviet States of Russia had become isolated from the western world , refusing to accept Marshall Aid and hiding behind the ‘ Iron Curtain ’ which they had created . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've always been fascinated by other cultures , traditions and people , particularly those removed from the Western World . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always been fascinated by other cultures , traditions and people , particularly those removed from the Western World . ’ |
| 5 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 6 | The thought that the world might have been different in a certain respect is taken to be the thought that there is a possible world which does differ from the actual world in that respect ( and probably others too ) . |
| 7 | But such a world is vastly more remote from the actual world than is a world in which , when you are sitting reading , you believe that you are . |
| 8 | This is the author 's own statement of intent in the Introduction : Ryan sees the essence of fictionality as an act of " recentering " , whereby the world of reference of a text is shifted from the actual world to an alternative possible world , which functions as the actual world of the universe projected by the text ( Chapter 1 ) . |
| 9 | In the context of shortage of funds for projects , the member states discussed the effects of a likely fall in the allocation of resources to Africa from the industrialized world in favour of the emerging democracies in eastern Europe . |
| 10 | It was estimated that annual defence spending by developing countries totalled around US$170,000 million , or 5 per cent of their combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and more than three times the total value of aid transfers from the industrialized world . |
| 11 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 12 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 13 | Everyone felt it , and the air being still pregnant with prophecy and contention , everyone started and pricked attentive ears , and several opened their eyes to look round towards the source of this abrupt wind from the outer world . |
| 14 | My belief is that my brother wanted no intrusion from the outer world . |
| 15 | The Network Queuing System , which Sequent obtained from the supercomputing world , provides load balancing and dynamic job bidding . |
| 16 | Fees paid by British participants subsidise those from the poor world and from eastern Europe . |
| 17 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 18 | West Germany , in the event for the first time , bring four world champions to Hyde Park to take on a British team that has six silver and bronze medallists from the recent World Championships , as well as squads from Italy , the Soviet Union and France . |
| 19 | This is the foundation for a true theology of the working relationship , without which there are no practical principles to which Christians can appeal to make their approach to work ( and its conflicts and difficulties ) any different from the non-Christian world . |
| 20 | They vividly describe the rise of the Macmillan publishing house from the lush world of the mid-Victorian men of letters . |
| 21 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 22 | Cacti are from the New World — the ones so common in Africa and the Mediterranean have been imported . |
| 23 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 24 | Also from the New World is Sainsbury 's Australian Sparkling Wine , £5.35 . |
| 25 | John Jay Hopkins , creator of the World Cup , would have approved of this year 's American team because Fred Couples and Davis Love III , who tee up in Madrid on November 5 , represent the best from the New World in 1992 . |
| 26 | since then , our attention has been diverted by a barrage of wines from the New World , which a run of less than characterful Riojas has done little to recapture . |
| 27 | When the colonists returned from the New World they found their homeland drowned and their kinsmen dead . |
| 28 | In the north a constant war is waged against incursions from Naggaroth and the folk of Tiranoc and their kinsmen from the New World are always to the fore . |
| 29 | Symphony No. 9 in E minor , ‘ From the New World ’ , B178a . |
| 30 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |