Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them stations would act principally as a means of access to the labour market in mines , farms , and towns , not as a route to the world market for their produce . |
| 2 | He had been in the Army , had served in India , and knew a bit about the world . |
| 3 | Not glass to reflect a bit of the world , but a crystal ball to look into so as to understand the world . |
| 4 | ‘ But there 's a time and a place for everything , and it 's time I moved on — saw a bit more of your beautiful country — maybe a bit of the world too , who knows ? ’ |
| 5 | He bought the drill and spent the rest of the trip flourishing it like a footballer with the World Cup . |
| 6 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |
| 7 | The second supposed difference between the Near Eastern and the Indian religious traditions was that the former believe that God is separate from the world , whilst the latter make God or the gods a part of the world 's spiritual furniture . |
| 8 | God is not to be identified with what we have called a part of the world 's furniture : God is no more an object inside the world than an object outside it . |
| 9 | God is known neither as a part of the world nor as identical with the world , but as that which transcends the world . |
| 10 | This was a part of the world where Greek culture and the Roman Church met and where there was a strong Saracen influence . |
| 11 | In a way Mark was too close to home , too much a part of the world whose foundations had just been rocked , yet somehow on the outside . |
| 12 | If you are going to a part of the world which is rife with certain diseases then investigate with your doctor beforehand as to whether you should have vaccinations . |
| 13 | You must accept happiness when you can , not selfishly , but remembering you are a part of the world , of others , not separate from them . |
| 14 | The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns . |
| 15 | Despite political division , the churches unite in their membership of the Middle East Council of Churches , and continue to play a leading role in a part of the world whose institutions are most important . |
| 16 | It will not be very helpful to designate a foreign division a ‘ cash cow ’ if it is located in a part of the world from which it is impossible to remit funds . |
| 17 | He could not allow himself to fall in love with a girl so obviously a part of the world of wealth and consequence which he had abandoned . |
| 18 | It 's a part of the world I 'm very interested in . |
| 19 | It 's a part of the world I 'm very interested in . |
| 20 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
| 21 | In doing so he reveals the most frequently denied value of humour a defence against the world 's cruel pressures . |
| 22 | It still a best-seller around the world . |
| 23 | Though naturally I 'm still here : even in the darkness I keep a watch upon the world . |
| 24 | In identifying with what he regarded as his father , Wilson thought that he would er emerge from the war as a saviour to the world , so to speak . |
| 25 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 26 | It envisages , that is , the possibility of a description of the world in which all subject terms refer to actual existents , and all explicit existential assertions give way to " existential presuppositions " . |
| 27 | In other words , the possibility is posited of a description of the world in which all subject terms refer to actual existents and all existential propositions are analysed out and replaced by " existential presuppositions " . |
| 28 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 29 | Maladjusted , inadequate characters with a grudge against the world and a lot to prove ( both Adam and Numan had mammoth chips on the shoulder about the music press ) . |
| 30 | He had a grudge against the world . |