Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the world in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 2 | The Catholic Church in the age of Mother Teresa and Barbara Ward , of Julius Nyerere and Lech Walesa , of Oscar Romero and Pedro Arrupe was a Church at the height of its confidence and its ability to relate to the world in a mood of inspiring solidarity . |
| 3 | ROBIN Knox-Johnston and Peter Blake are still well ahead of schedule in their bid to sail round the world in under 80 days . |
| 4 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |
| 5 | In 186 B.C. there were Galatian mercenaries in Egypt who were able to announce to the world in perfect Greek from the little temple of Horus in Abydos " We of the corps of the Galatians have come and have captured a fox " ( Bitten berger , OGIS 757 ) . |
| 6 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 7 | Amusingly , the one threat she had encountered was from another ‘ Queen of the Night ’ , a grossly huge woman , who only felt able to emerge into the world in the dead of night , and was enraged to find another woman watching her take her secret walk in the darkness . |
| 8 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 9 | But the greatest advance in regularity was soon about to descend on the world in which I found myself : the introduction of a complex railway system which depended on exact and uniform timing over whole countries , not on the vagaries of a church steeple or a parson 's watch . |
| 10 | A remarkable revolt by Europe 's underclass is threatening , if not to wreck , at least to discolour the modernised , modish Spain that the country 's prime minster , Felipe González , intends to present to the world in 1992 . |
| 11 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |