Example sentences of "[adj] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , the two glories of the current team , one of the greatest the world has seen , are two halves of rugby . |
| 2 | Black Wolf he was called , and there was nothing he would not do to make the Russian Empire the greatest the world had ever known . |
| 3 | It is n't fairness that the world needs . |
| 4 | Sometimes it seems that the world scarcely changes . |
| 5 | Given that the world 's terrorist organisations routinely assist each other , coupled with the hysterical and disproportionate outburst among the Irish community at the decision of Digital Equipment Corp to end manufacturing in Galway , it would be unwise of the authorities in New York to exclude Irish Republican Army involvement in the terrorist bomb under the World Trade Center . |
| 6 | And the young were demanding , once again , that the world pay attention . |
| 7 | Thus given that the world is made up of a , l , c … n objects , " Men exist " , or more precisely " For some x , x is a man " , is coextensive with " Either a is a man or l is a man or c is a man or … n is a man " . |
| 8 | dwellings could be accommodated , given that the world is not going to stop in two thousand and six . |
| 9 | But they are the least the world must do to make itself safer from nuclear blackmail . |
| 10 | The parcels side was still losing money heavily and by 1980 the world was running into recession . |
| 11 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 12 | In 1893 the World 's Parliament of Religions took place in Chicago marking a step in the modern interfaith movement . |
| 13 | Is this the world 's hardest climb ? |
| 14 | ‘ All this the world well knows ; yet none knows so well : |
| 15 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 16 | When federalists bleat on about how interdependent the world is , one wonders what world they live in . |
| 17 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
| 18 | Labour 's real prescription for Britain is the disease half the world is struggling to cure . ’ |
| 19 | Half the world 's rainforests have already been destroyed , mainly in the last forty years . |
| 20 | Because over half the world 's cereal harvest is fed to livestock being reared for slaughter , and not to men , women and children . |
| 21 | Already , roughly half the world 's oil is carried by one-tanker companies , whose entire assets founder with a single wreck . |
| 22 | More than half the world tanker fleet is now over ten years old , and a squeeze on pay means more tankers are manned by inexperienced crew . |
| 23 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 24 | In France , which has more than 200 registered organic producers ( over half the world 's total ) , there are 16 associations , each with a different set of rules . |
| 25 | John had travelled half the world in the merchant navy and seen many strange and wonderful things , both sober and not-so sober . |
| 26 | Only $75m pa is spent at present and less than half the world 's plants — potential sources of food , drugs or other chemicals — are in gene banks . |
| 27 | In 1950 , America consumed half the world 's oil ; by 1960 this fell to 44% and by 1970 it was less than one third . |
| 28 | The Middle East is the most energy rich region of the world , possessing over half the world 's proven oil reserves and a quarter of the world 's gas reserves . |
| 29 | Half the world 's scientific literature is printed in English . |
| 30 | The Japanese satellites currently represents half the world 's astronomy satellites — the other two being IRAS ( see p. 507 ) and the International Ultraviolet Explorer . |