Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy-covered or not , universities had once protected themselves as if by walls from the outside gaze ; effortlessly so , on the whole , since for centuries the world beyond had little curiosity about them , they cost the taxpayer nothing , and their inmates were proverbially remote and ineffectual . |
| 2 | Yet for months the world 's promotions industry has been busy marking — and marketing — the event . |
| 3 | Age standardised incidence figures were calculated by direct standardisation , using as reference the world standard population . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course the world was affronted ’ , but , now again surrounded by ‘ devoted thought and care ’ , he could afford to ignore it . |
| 5 | Unless Versailles was radically revised , argued Morel , the League would become ‘ the most powerful engine of oppression the world has ever seen . ’ |
| 6 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 7 | The payment of these separation allowances , which Eleanor Rathbone called ‘ the largest experiment in the State endowment of maternity the world has ever seen ’ ( Rathbone , 1917 ; p. 55 ) , was important in two respects . |
| 8 | All you decent , well-meaning gentlemen , let me ask you , have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you ? |
| 9 | The Reichmanns figured that if New York went out of business the world would go with it . |
| 10 | The aim of all schools of initiation the world over has always been to guide a human mind from an ordinary state of consciousness which is considered as a conscious state of ignorance or illusion , to a higher , more aware , enlightened condition . |
| 11 | Without such works of grace the world would rush even more rapidly towards the abyss . |
| 12 | At the time of the writing of this book there is still fresh in the minds of people the world over , memories of the Falklands War . |
| 13 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 14 | At the beginning of life the world is very small , and the infant 's place in it very large . |
| 15 | I gather that since he is to become a man of substance the world has become his oyster . ’ |
| 16 | INTERVIEW / Littlechap at large : Songwriter and performer Anthony Newley talks to Mark Steyn about the return of Stop The World |
| 17 | He argued that the plant should be studied together with its environment as a single unit and that mankind should respect the traditional wisdom gained from the trial and error of generations of peasants the world over . |
| 18 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 19 | The paid work of women at home is as invisible as the unpaid work of women at home , and as poorly rewarded as the work of women the world over . |
| 20 | My dear , you are on the young side — I am only stating a fact , the kind of fact the world sees — to be living in a kind of bachelor 's establishment , so naturally one asks oneself where is that mysterious lady , her mother ? |
| 21 | For years the world price had been governed by the prolific yield from Anglesey and many British mines , especially marginal workings , had gone to the wall . |
| 22 | Like mothers the world over Mrs Burrows must have watched and pondered , and wondered just what God 's plan for her offspring would be , but she never expressed any doubts . |
| 23 | The octagonal shrine , the Dalada Maligawa , houses the tooth-relic of Buddha , an object of veneration for Buddhists the world over . |
| 24 | For Anna the world was the world was the world , and she would come to terms with it . |
| 25 | Last week , the government introduced into parliament the world Heritage Properties Conservation Bill , specifically aimed at stopping work on the dam . |
| 26 | And with television the world of advertising carne right into the home . |
| 27 | Skinflint Ebeneza is played by showbiz legened Anthony Newely , who starred in several smash hit musicals including Stop the World I Want to Get Off . |
| 28 | Foreign Extra Stout ( FES ) retains its pre-eminent position within the Guinness beer portfolio Brewed in Dublin , the consistent quality and unique taste of FES ensures its success with consumers the world over In Jamaica , for example , sales volume has doubled since 1990 to over one and a half million cases . |
| 29 | That in probability the next doubling of the people of England will be in about 600 years to come , or by the year of our Lord 2300 ; at which time it will have eleven millions of people ; but , that the next doubling after that , will not be ( in all probability ) in less than 12 or 1300 years more , or by the year of our Lord 3500 or 3600 ; at which time the kingdom will have 22 millions of souls , or four times its present number , in case the world should last so long , |
| 30 | In response the World Bank in September outlined changes which it said took account of the report 's criticisms . |