Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] world of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather touching absurdity of their homespun life is faithfully done , and Cressy 's longing for the modern world of discotheques and Wimpy bars . |
| 2 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 3 | This about ends our ramble through the wide world of restaurants , cafes , bistros , brasseries , snack bars and pubs . |
| 4 | It would , of course , have revealed some aspects of the variable world of police culture to the outside and this was unacceptable . |
| 5 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 6 | In practice , when making a purchase , it is very rare for us to note whether an object is made by a cooperative or a private factory , or in East or West Germany , and extraordinarily this division appears hardly , if at all , within the major symbolic dimensions of the contemporary world of commodities . |
| 7 | The reader is recommended to consult the work of the Opies as an example of a vivid reconstruction of the semi-autonomous world of children 's songs , games and folk-lore , a culture often carried on and elaborated over generations ( Opie and Opie , 1959 ) . |
| 8 | Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East . |
| 9 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 10 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 11 | An hour in ‘ Birdland provides conclusive proof that this lot 's link with the thigh-slapping world of rhinestones , rodeos and people who say things like ‘ yee-haw ’ is immaterial — the best label to stick on The Rockingbirds reader ‘ very good band who 'll be around for ages ’ . |
| 12 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 13 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 14 | Such a view would be wrong because many of the points of critique that we have just set down have been backed up by solid research into the concrete world of interests and groups . |
| 15 | SCHOOLCHILDREN were given an interesting insight into the exciting world of police work yesterday by their new community policeman John O'Neill . |
| 16 | ‘ To enter into the perceptual world of whales and dolphins , you would have to change your primary sense from sight to sound . |
| 17 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 18 | The knitting correspondent was taking a well-earned break from the strenuous world of woollens , courtesy of her travel editor . |
| 19 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 20 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
| 21 | When removed from the toy-town world of textbooks , information about investment and calculations based on an understanding of interest rates can be illuminating for the young mathematician who may also be studying geography , business studies or economics at school . |
| 22 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , there are examples in the industrial/commercial world of organisations with several thousands of product variants . |
| 24 | All this was really good training for Dawn , as it was contributing to her becoming accustomed to being a ‘ captive ’ in the noisy world of humans . |
| 25 | She 's has survived for years in the tough world of clubs to eventually come out top . |
| 26 | I could n't figure out why our spirits were supposed to have bodies and exist in the physical world of cars and houses . |
| 27 | She spends her working life in the glamorous world of celebrities and top politicians . |
| 28 | Set in the glossy world of women 's magazines , it centres on Rose Summers a plump , talented , unsophisticated girl who rises to top editor . |
| 29 | There have been teething troubles with the monorail and cable-car ( essential accessories in the futuristic world of expos ) . |
| 30 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |