Example sentences of "place in the world " in BNC.
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| 31 | He believed that Germanisation would bring the Poles security and a place in the world that they could not otherwise expect . |
| 32 | What soon became known as ‘ The Glorious Revolution ’ was to shape England 's defence policy , and affect her place in the world , for at least the next century . |
| 33 | It opened with a black screen and a voice that said , ‘ This is probably the most frightening place in the world . ’ |
| 34 | When that time comes , I 'm sure that you will return home to make your future , satisfied that you have quenched the thirst that has driven you on this journey , and be ready to take up your permanent place in the world . |
| 35 | In the qualifying pool his seven-try spree — Brew and his policeman colleague Ian Strange scored in each of the five matches — helped Hong Kong 's comparatively modest outfit beat Zimbabwe on the try count and , accordingly , clinch a place in the World Cup Sevens final tournament . |
| 36 | One of Walker 's early dispatches , written as the team kicked their heels in some god-forsaken spot in Tibet waiting for bureaucracy , began memorably : ‘ This is the worst place in the world . ’ |
| 37 | Hardly a demonstration or revolution takes place in the world without the name of Marx being involved . |
| 38 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie has gained a place in the World Championship of Golf in Jamaica next month as replacement for American John Cook . |
| 39 | ‘ You want us to give up everything , ’ she said , ‘ all our rights , our place in the world . |
| 40 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |
| 41 | Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ . |
| 42 | For I feel I 've got no place in the world , an' no mortal worth to nobody , if not to thee . |
| 43 | ‘ The NME can be the most exciting place in the world . |
| 44 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 45 | The only place in the world where the name ‘ Rapeman ’ was controversial was England ; everywhere else in the world it was of trivial importance . |
| 46 | Jamaica is the most alive place in the world . |
| 47 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 48 | These are status-hungry beings eager to define a place in the world for themselves and for others . |
| 49 | As right-wing politicians proclaim that the school curriculum must help children understand Britain 's ‘ place in the world ’ , the virtues of defence or popular capitalism , their left-wing counterparts maintain that schools should concern themselves with issues like the role of the police in contemporary society , homosexuality and the rights of cultural and ethnic minorities . |
| 50 | They are moral agents , able to entertain and argue for their place in the world and the entitlements that go with it ; in short , they are rational beings . |
| 51 | I think both have a place in the world , but I see Metropolitan Area technology used for connecting different types of data network , with Asynchronous Transfer Mode for internetworking of broadband networks . ’ |
| 52 | Thenceforth his symphonic music inscrutably presented the emotions — albeit largely ironically — that the State expected from its leading composer while the quartets provided an outlet for the emotions within and for his personal responses to the event taking place in the world around him . |
| 53 | ‘ You know , the place in the world which we know as Africa is actually the place where life came from , where life began , and so it seems as though the people who were the original people of this earth have been planted on to be pariahs , the lowest of the low . |
| 54 | As we have said , Palestine in the first century , like any other place in the world , was subject to a complex welter of social , psychological , political , economic , cultural , and religious factors . |
| 55 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 56 | The British Museum can find anything out , it 's the most marvellous place in the world . |
| 57 | Its a mistake , I think , to confuse the gift relationship with mindless material indulgence , for it is only by being given things that anyone ever learns that they have a place in the world . |
| 58 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 59 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 60 | Today , his anti-Semitism has become a habit , a mechanical response , a focus for all his resentments : his poverty , his lack of formal education , his peripheral place in the world of music … . |