Example sentences of "world at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with his Bumper Fun Book , the minister of Dunlop joked his way around the world at various functions . |
| 2 | But Sir Lawrence Byford , the club president , insisted : ‘ We have searched the world at great cost to myself and there just is n't one available . ’ |
| 3 | They see the landscape as being formed by ‘ dreamings ’ , which came into the material world at so-called ‘ waterholes ’ , which may or may not correspond to an actual waterhole . |
| 4 | In former days the economical cycle hit different parts of the world at different times and the spread gave us a degree of stability . |
| 5 | Bosnia rebukes world at human rights talks |
| 6 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 7 | The result is that the ‘ war against crime ’ fought by detectives becomes a symbolic re-enactment of conflicts in the economic world at large , between those who have material property and power and those who labour and are dispossessed . |
| 8 | He told Napo 's annual conference in Bridlington , Humberside : ‘ Electronic surveillance , house arrest tracking , restrictive and punitive community supervision can not be part of any real living community — they simply transfer the techniques of imprisonment into the world at large . ’ |
| 9 | Theatre in the world at large is unimaginable without an audience : I would n't dream of listening to radio drama with anyone else in the room . |
| 10 | Robert Maxwell reassured shareholders and the world at large that he had turned his giant mind to the greenhouse effect . |
| 11 | The politico-military problem that we face in our post-imperial era is how to maintain the greatest practicable measure of national independence without jeopardizing the security of our islands and of our wider interests in the world at large . |
| 12 | However , much of Europe , let alone the world at large , was economically backward . |
| 13 | Others , evidently , showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants , but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country , if not halted , might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large . |
| 14 | Rescripts were often penned for a case , and not for the world at large . |
| 15 | IT IS almost exactly 50 years since the world at large was first made aware of the monster of Loch Ness . |
| 16 | It was a somewhat strained discussion on both sides , the Right , as it were , being careful not to be pejoratively dismissive and to stress the importance of improving the morale of cancer patients and of discussion between sufferers and the world at large ; the Left being equally cautious not to exaggerate claims for holistic medicine . |
| 17 | Attempting to predict the changes likely to take place in practices and in the world at large and their consequences for Institutional education policy , has been a function of the educational committees of the Institution and the centres of full-time education , all of whom have been addressing the question since early 1985 . |
| 18 | They often remain in a state of despair that the world at large and their nearest friends and relatives treat them so badly . |
| 19 | That year they scooped every award in sight and played the most prestigious festivals , and the world at large began to recognise the Cray Band sound : no histrionics or wailing feedback , just tight soul grooves linked with Robert 's excellent vocals , his distinctive guitar style and his thin , poppy trademark Stratocaster tone . |
| 20 | Or do you project your emotions onto the outside world — seeing your fears , anger , sadness or envy in other people , or in the world at large ? |
| 21 | These purposes do not , however , have to correspond with those which are current or ‘ authentic ’ uses of language in the world at large . |
| 22 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 23 | If we want to know what is happening to the church we need to understand what is happening in the secular world at large . |
| 24 | To become mother to a child is to step into a universal role , to be type-cast by the world at large and even by one 's own children . |
| 25 | I could see that only by changing our own personal worlds will we change the world at large . |
| 26 | Now that the Island is well into the fiftieth anniversary of its defence from the Axis powers , surely this is a fitting moment for further funds to be channelled into this splendid method of showing Maltese too young to have experienced the era , and the world at large , of the time when Malta stood alone . |
| 27 | He admitted his language was ‘ somewhat clumsy ’ but declared : ‘ I was talking to an unhappy young man — not the world at large . ’ |
| 28 | The world at large began to notice this roaring weekly enfant terrible . |
| 29 | Like the band constantly fighting to retain independent artistic control on a major label , the Oxbridge fops can never erase or taint the effect their original shows had on comedy and the world at large , no matter how much rich men 's folly ( children 's books , crap US film cameos , endless cash-in-books and records , the SDP ) they involve themselves in now . |
| 30 | JEFFREY LEE Pierce is the head honcho of the massively underrated Gun Club , a band of musicians who consistently produce fine records which are then ignored by the world at large . |