Example sentences of "in the world be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Pacific Ocean , its shores , its islands , ’ he said , ‘ will become the great theatre of events in the world 's hereafter … henceforth European commerce , European thought and European connections , although becoming more intimate , will nevertheless sink in importance. , |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | This demise of the oldest discipline in the world is clearly absurd and ripe for serious reconsideration . |
| 4 | Capacity to learn about associations in the world is clearly of great value in a variable environment and appeared at an early stage in animal evolution . |
| 5 | If you lose sight of that , all the attention to detail in the world is not a great deal of use . |
| 6 | Metal type wears out , and new ‘ founts ’ ( complete sets of a single design ) are expensive — so the best printer in the world is not going to replace them more often than absolutely necessary . |
| 7 | The greatest lineout jumper in the world is not going to walk into any old team and have it happen overnight . |
| 8 | It looks so bad when the number one player in the world is not playing Davis Cup . |
| 9 | Flying some of the fastest kites in the world is not an easy task , just ask 's nine year old nephew , |
| 10 | And of course local government is the most wonderful procrastinator in the world is n't it ? |
| 11 | As Richard Baxter wrote in 1681 , ‘ Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth in a God , and whose business in the world is most with God . |
| 12 | No success in the world is ever worth that . |
| 13 | The main threat to our position and influence in the world is now political and economic rather than military ; and our policies should be adapted to meet the changed situation . |
| 14 | Between the River Thames and the M4 viaduct to the west of Kew Bridge are the Kew Bridge Waterworks , where the best collection of in situ pumping engines in the world is now preserved by a trust as the Kew Bridge Living Steam Museum . |
| 15 | The classiest business class in the world is now even more so . |
| 16 | Thus redefined , the number of slaves in the world is now greater than it was 150 years ago . |
| 17 | As far as I am concerned no-one in the world is more important than me . |
| 18 | No city in the world is more vulnerable to a fire than Venice and no city in the world has less adequate defences . |
| 19 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 20 | The greatest flower show in the world is how the organisers describe the result of their 10 years planning and planting — and rightly so . |
| 21 | The real problem that Governments always face anywhere in the world is how to distribute central funds to regions and localities as far down as possible . |
| 22 | Computing capacity in the world is roughly doubling ( in number and power ) every year , and the Third World will not be immune from this growth . |
| 23 | It is the night when demons walk and when every evil in the world is abroad . |
| 24 | No country in the world is entirely self-sufficient in all the materials it uses . |
| 25 | At more than five thousand tons the most technologically advanced press plant in the world is so big it was built in a shipyard . |
| 26 | Aristotelian philosophy affirmed that the universe is eternal , that objects in the world are not dependent upon God for their existence . |
| 27 | From Cuba to Japan is a long leap , and the ‘ economic difficulties ’ of the largest ELT market in the world are not to be compared with those of other countries . |
| 28 | The best endurance team in the world are n't racing this year . |
| 29 | you did , you 're the cleverest girl in the world are n't you ? there 's your space suit where are you ? , come here while I pull your pants up , pants up first , pants up first lets run some water wait a minute your trousers are not pulled up right both hands in a little bit of soap on , now rub them together good rinse , get all the soap off , right shake , rattle and roll , hands washed , I mean dried sorry |
| 30 | Our senses may inform us that any single whole is equal to all its parts ; but not that all wholes in the world are so , unless we could suppose , that we had seen or felt them all . |