Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 2 | And that 's why this is traditionally the area where British bikers have broken into the world of continental racing . |
| 3 | These men I have examined around the world who live in vigorous health to 100 or more years are great walkers . |
| 4 | I have flown round the world once and been on Concorde . |
| 5 | Greenpeace have joined with the World Wide Fund for Nature in launching a petition campaign for a complete ban on mineral exploitation in Antarctica . |
| 6 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 7 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 8 | They provide fragments of circumstantial evidence as to what we have done to the world in the last two decades . |
| 9 | tt right , yeah , incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products , income elasticities what 's the income elasticity of manufactured goods ? |
| 10 | A vast number of women do n't appreciate the positive contributions that men have made to the world , such as knitted polyester suits , one-day cricket and the Cuban missile crisis . |
| 11 | The Spaniards are by nature noisy and vociferous , especially in the mornings when , like cocks crowing , they have to announce to the world that they are alive and doing . |
| 12 | As we approach our own death , children represent both ‘ our ’ future in terms of the family line , and an important element of what ‘ we ’ have produced in the world . |
| 13 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 14 | I think our union has changed dramatically over the last few years , not to the point that our great history has been lost , but we have adapted to the world in which we live . |
| 15 | If you live in New York in 1990 you absolutely have to think about the world you 're living in a very clear way because otherwise it 's an impossible situation . |
| 16 | NME hacks have spread through the world of pop journalism like a virus : the current editors and/or publishers of Q , Vox , Select , The Face and Arena are all ex- NME grunts . |
| 17 | I have worked around the world without so reacting to these factors . |
| 18 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 19 | Preparations have begun for the World Administrative Radio Conference ( WARC ‘ 92 ) which will be held in Spain in 1992 . |