Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 2 | Which means that , unless the Andes group produce any surprises , Harry Fischer 's little bunch of boozers are the best bloody mountain-builders in the world . |
| 3 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 4 | The other countries of the EC , which count among their number some of the oldest political units in the world ( France , Denmark , the Netherlands , Spain , Portugal ) , by contrast , seem quite happy to dissolve their sovereignty in the supranationalism of the EC . |
| 5 | She did , but Boswell for all the legal and social reasons in the world , could not say , nor could he expand beyond a sketchy account of her long , forlorn imprisonment . |
| 6 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 7 | These are exciting times in the world of Technological Education and we in Heriot 's are confident that we can equip our pupils to meet the challenge that lies ahead . |
| 8 | But there they were , competing with Seychelles turtle doves , barred ground-doves , Madagascar and the endemic Seychelles fodies and even the Seychelles magpie robin , one of the most endangered birds in the world . |
| 9 | London is one of the most exciting cities in the world , famous for its parks , gardens , monuments , museums and galleries , its shopping streets and malls . |
| 10 | On the way home from Gdynia , on selected dates , we will leave one day earlier and make an overnight stay near the German border so we can spend the day in Berlin — one of the most exciting cities in the world these days . |
| 11 | GET an Eiffel of Paris — One of the most beautiful and exciting cities in the world . |
| 12 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 13 | Nigel Mansell , who for several years has ranked among the top two or three racing drivers in the world , is simply pushing himself harder than most . |
| 14 | The dominant idea in the liberal ideology of English is that of ‘ universality ’ ; great literature is universally ‘ great ’ for different peoples in the world and at different times in history . |
| 15 | So much so that taekwondo and karate are now the most popular styles in the world , practised by perhaps 30m enthusiasts in 120 different countries . |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce , meanwhile , would concentrate on what it did best — building the most luxurious cars in the world . |
| 17 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 18 | India remains , even in the cities , one of the most superstitious countries in the world . |
| 19 | James Ferman , director of the British Board of Film Classification , says : ‘ We are one of the most censorious countries in the world regarding violence . |
| 20 | From his small office , the solicitor explains that deals similar to that offered to the Salvation Army — where they invested $10 million in a deal that promised high interest returns — are kept secret among high-ranking individuals in the world of finance . |
| 21 | David Spence , a 23-year-old from Natal studying for a diploma in social science , said : ‘ Oxford is seen as one of the very top universities in the world , and it is a dream come true just to be here . |
| 22 | Most of the top dealers in the world would be after it . ’ |
| 23 | Gem of the district , and one of my favourite places in the world , is Kramer 's Bookstore and Afterwords Café , with a wonderful array of literature , political and other books . |
| 24 | I inadvertently got the best vantage point on one of the most exciting holes in the world ! " |
| 25 | One of the rarest and most endangered monkeys in the world , it is still most common in central Vietnam . |
| 26 | Sotheby 's and Christie 's New York are benefiting from the departure of a number of distinguished figures in the world of art and entertainment , in all cases at ripe old ages . |
| 27 | If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] . |
| 28 | As with Hegel , following the initial creation of subject-object relations in consciousness , there arises an increasing awareness of the existence of other subjects , and therefore also the possibility of other values and social relations in the world . |
| 29 | Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one . |
| 30 | Those few foreigners who have been there describe it as one of the most remote and desolate spots in the world . |