Example sentences of "[verb] that [art] world is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an intellectual leap of the same order as believing that the world is round . |
| 2 | We are always being told that the world is shrinking and that the new technology is bringing the inhabitants of planet earth ever closer together , whether they like it or not . |
| 3 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying that the world is perfect . |
| 5 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |