Example sentences of "[prep] the world is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onece the province of a few ropey old pop stars , caring for the world is now an essential requirement of any late-80s star . |
| 2 | Also , with all the genuine turning to God by leaders and people — here , and perhaps even more in South Africa — this part of the world is surely meant to be a turning point in the ideological power struggle . |
| 3 | The argument that there is no long-term viability for a country which is economically isolated from the rest of the world is not new . |
| 4 | Members of those cultures might , with some justification , argue that the distinction between language-systems and the state of the world is not simply a neutral , theoretical tool but itself an ideological weapon constructed within a dominant culture and serving the purposes of cultural and linguistic imperialism . |
| 5 | Once that is recognized it becomes quite obvious that the concept of man as a mythical universal being , born free and equal , which is today so popular among intellectuals and slogan-spouting politicians in all parts of the world is not shared by humanity at large . |
| 6 | And so it must , for the rest of the world is n't standing still . ’ |
| 7 | Would you agree that your sense of the world is n't secular and humanist , but religious ? |
| 8 | ER , SORRY , THE END OF THE WORLD IS N'T NIGH |
| 9 | It must accept the fact that most of the world is neither culturally Western nor racially white . |
| 10 | Followers of Koresh believe that he is the Messiah and that the end of the world is near . |
| 11 | Koresh 's followers believe he is the Messiah and that the end of the world is near . |
| 12 | A large part of the world is notionally governed according to Marxist principles . |
| 13 | The end of the world is here . |
| 14 | And so The Heart of the World is ultimately a collection of encounters ; of stories . |
| 15 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 16 | The physicist 's picture of the world is extremely formal . |
| 17 | Stevenson would certainly respond by insisting that however much our conception of the world is socially determined , and even if there is no level of brute fact which is just how things are , there is still all the difference between a socially agreed mode of representing actual or expected , but not necessarily welcomed , reality , and an effort to decide on what to favour and what disfavour in this reality . |
| 18 | ‘ Unpolluted ’ precipitation is commonly assumed to have a pH value of 5.6 ( or 5.65 ) , although in reality the pH of precipitation in even the most remote areas of the world is typically lower than this , averaging around 5.0 . |
| 19 | They believe that the end of the world is about to come , and their conviction gives them a certain maniacal courage . |
| 20 | Later organizational theorists ( for example , Starbuck , 1982 ) argue that the ‘ garbage-can ’ view of the world is too extreme in its implications that organizations have no controlled order at all . |
| 21 | This part of the world is never short of tales and stories , and the Altnacealgach Hotel , by the shores of Loch Borralan , was a good place to hear them . |
| 22 | It is likely that Africa is now moving into a phase in which the rest of the world is less interested in her affairs . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why this part of the world is so important to me , ’ he resumed , taking a cumbersome leather cigar case from his pocket . |
| 24 | Some of you may have put this book down feeling slightly faint , wondering how you can be so stupid while the rest of the world is so clever . |
| 25 | The implications are unavoidable : ‘ … it is clear that the life and death of Christ have no efficacy in this scheme of things … the salvation of the world is now wrought by the events of the life of Constantine , symbolized by his saving sign ’ . |
| 26 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 27 | The contribution of their lowland breeds to the cattle of the world is out of all proportion to the size of the country and their success has been phenomenal , with the black-and-white pied dairy breeds in particular spreading in huge numbers all over the world . |
| 28 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 29 | The Perpetual movement intensely tested and proved under every possible condition throughout the world is indeed worthy of the title Swiss Chronometer , a title much coveted and jealously guarded , awarded by The Controle Official Suisse de Chronometres , only after exhaustive and rigorous tests have been completed . |
| 30 | For Betts the explanation was simple , for the British were ‘ afraid to depart from massive but stultifying film values ’ which the Americans had already built up , and the situation was one in which ‘ every film producer in the world is mortally afraid of losing that Hollywood complexion , ourselves most of all ’ . |