Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Dimbleby will bring on-the-spot coverage of the state of play in the world 's most powerful country as it goes to the polls and the fates of Bill Clinton , George Bush and Ross Perot are decided . |
| 2 | Global competition is much more than rivalry among firms , for it involves the ‘ structural competitiveness ’ of states within the world system . |
| 3 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 4 | Key to the work on markets are considerations of change in the world religions and in painting . |
| 5 | They allow leading firms continuously to adjust to the collapse of the timescales for the diffusion of products around the world ; people all over the world are increasingly aware of what others are buying . |
| 6 | There was the usual faff of getting back to the aircraft to get the flying bag , complicated by the imminent arrival of VIPs for the World Fishing Convention . |
| 7 | Not long ago a performer in Paris won some notoriety for employing her vagina to swallow , and then powerfully eject , table tennis balls and the history of the seamier side of nightlife around the world is littered with accounts of vaginas that have played harmonicas or smoked cigarettes . |
| 8 | It is advised that the choice of issue should reflect the choice of the two key questions as indicated above i.e. relate either to the problem of evil/suffering in the world and/ or the topic of the value of human life . |
| 9 | Americans , for example , believed that Stalin was following a definite plan for the expansion of communism throughout the world — when in reality his aim may have been the much more defensive one of building barriers round the Russian homeland . |
| 10 | All I can say is that the yes of God 's love is stronger than the no of his judgment and that I do believe that despite all the shadows and elements of chaos in the world , in the universe and in life , God 's love is stronger and he is a God of love . |
| 11 | Lovers of freedom throughout the world looked to this vision with hope and it is with profound sadness that they see the vision momentarily dimmed , and with this dimming has come a confusion of purpose and a sense of despair that was never known before in America . |
| 12 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |
| 13 | DameJanet ( Vaughan ) used to tell us about flying the flag of freedom around the world actually a good message to hear ! ’ |
| 14 | Formal education extends this process by providing guidance into different ways of conceiving of the world and different ways of conveying these concepts in modes of description , argument , and so on . |
| 15 | This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order . |
| 16 | Artist lives unhappily ever after , bequeaths portrait of Lisa to the world . |
| 17 | The grand alliance favoured a new set of standards called open systems interconnection ( OSI ) , which was intended to allow all types of computer in the world to talk to each other within any kind of network . |
| 18 | By calling God infinite , we are denying Him a characteristic of objects in the world . |
| 19 | On an international front , there are rumblings of discontent from the World Meteorological Organisation . |
| 20 | Osborne , who is Professor of Music at Edinburgh University , conceived this imaginative and daring project ‘ to draw attention to the courage of musicians and the artistic community of Sarajevo by offering the solidarity and support of musicians throughout the world ’ . |
| 21 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 22 | The Committee noted that ‘ the trend of social development is leaving the public schools out of alignment with the world in which they exist ’ . |
| 23 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 24 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
| 25 | And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world . |
| 26 | There are about 2,700 species of snake in the world , yet only 50 or so are highly venomous . |
| 27 | Will my hon. and attractive Friend congratulate Perth and Kinross district council on the dynamic quality of its work in attracting vast benefits to Scotland and Scottish industry by means of its policy of twinning with Pskov in Russia and Haikou on Hainan island in China , this year bringing to Perth the most valuable exhibition of icons in the world ? |
| 28 | … for the first time in the history of the 500-year-old world economy , the profitable production of manufactures for the world market has finally become possible to a significant and increasing extent , not only in the industrialized countries , but also now in the developing countries . |
| 29 | It has been able to anticipate requirements of operators around the world . |
| 30 | But the totality of waves in the world is incalculable : who knows how many there are ? |