Example sentences of "[prep] the world in general " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsay [ 1987 ] argues that two types of knowledge are used in the process of understanding : linguistic knowledge ( i.e. knowledge about language itself ) , and world knowledge ( i.e. knowledge about the world in general ) . |
| 2 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 3 | They quarrelled hardly at all and when they did it was almost always because Roland expressed concern about Val 's reserve with the world in general , her refusal to advance opinions in class , and later , even to him . |
| 4 | peaceful and relaxed and enables you to go deeply within yourself and to feel very much in harmony with yourself with others who you do it with , and with the world in general . |
| 5 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 6 | Suffice it to say here that unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies rose substantially during this period ; the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by general pessimism about future economic prospects in individual countries and in the world in general ; and all this after a period of unprecedented growth in public expenditure on education and health in all advanced industrial countries . |
| 7 | Tom Tedder — bulky , untidy , and God-dammit-I'm-an-artist in his approach to the world in general — accepted the situation quite calmly , as most men of forty will accept devotion , even from a woman a dozen years his senior . |
| 8 | I KILLED little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general . |