Example sentences of "[art] rest [prep] the world in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened in Pomerania also happened elsewhere , but in Pomerania the processes were accentuated because the place was so far behind the rest of the world in its social and economic order , and because its mixed Polish and German population accentuated the clash between the rural and industrial identities and social orders . |
| 2 | It also means that all other quarter-finalists — Canada , Ireland , Scotland , Western Samoa and France — might have to join the rest of the world in the qualifying rounds , expected to start later this year . |
| 3 | If it merely has a few extra grammes of plutonium squirrelled away ( something explicable as an oversight — or the ‘ oops ’ factor ) , then it might be ready to end its quarrel with the rest of the world in return for a deal that could even bring diplomatic recognition from America , together with trade and aid from South Korea and Japan . |
| 4 | By comparison with the rest of the world in the sixteenth century , some parts of western Europe might look like well-organized nations but it was still true that the main bond holding countries together was the personal loyalty that a local military leader felt to his sovereign . |
| 5 | In the early part of 1988 , for example , the volume of imports was 83 per cent higher than in 1980 compared with an average import growth for the rest of the world in the same period of 28 per cent . |
| 6 | Power seemed to be moving towards Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who was arguing that his country needed to mend bridges with the rest of the world in order to rebuild Iran , following the end of the long war with Iraq . |
| 7 | Its importance as a link between Bishop 's Castle and the rest of the world in the days before motorised transport is emphasised by all the recollections of the time . |
| 8 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |
| 9 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | Such a position would be quite incomprehensible if the main thrust of US policy was an attempt to run as large as possible a balance of payments deficit ( on current and long-term capital account ) in order to grab real resources from the rest of the world in exchange for paper dollars . |
| 11 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |