Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the world in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 2 | But as Winch points out , Mill 's assumption separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , hence , in order for a person to act morally , he has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 3 | The utilitarian axiom distinguishes the person who acts from the world in which he acts . |
| 4 | Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 5 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 6 | Daytime UK 's Anne Stirk goes around the world in search of cakes to bring a festive touch to your teatime table |
| 7 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |