Example sentences of "[verb] around the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA 's ITMI artificial intelligence systems company has teamed up with vision systems specialist Cognex Corp to offer a joint package to customers : Cognex has nearly 12,000 vision systems installed around the world and a wide library of software tools ; ITMI has installed around 150 systems for big European manufacturers . |
| 2 | Rapid changes in the market place put a great strain on top management to ensure a company is keeping pace and is sufficiently aware of what is happening around the world . |
| 3 | They were under no illusions that they could do a better job from Detroit , but they had become increasingly concerned that they were getting out of touch with what was happening around the world , and that the tail was beginning to wag the dog . |
| 4 | But reruns around the world are set to net him £49 million for the two years ending this December , taking his total fortune to around £150 million . |
| 5 | As consumer demands become less varied around the world , the truly successful company is one which adopts global marketing strategies that can be tailored and implemented with a local focus . |
| 6 | In October 1987 , when share prices crashed around the world , Hong Kong disgraced itself by closing for four days to protect local speculators . |
| 7 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 8 | Many people imagine that it is a glamorous life , jetting around the world for the big athletics meetings and receiving much media attention . |
| 9 | The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean . |
| 10 | However , a certain number of these works are obviously scattered around the world ’ . |
| 11 | Something like 4m people who speak Greek , or think of themselves as Greek , are scattered around the world . |
| 12 | And what if all Palestinians scattered around the world do return home ? |
| 13 | The workgroup could be located in the same office , or split among a number of offices located around the world . |
| 14 | Their voices can carry around the world on radio or television , their printed utterances as prophet or pundit resound through newspapers and journals ; their more reflected views to be memorialised , sage-like , on the bookshelf . |
| 15 | The town is the first in Europe to become Connected — linked to a new super highway of information which is being built around the world . |
| 16 | Controlling the way her image was seen around the world ensured that Kylie made the most of her success as her face became familiar all across the globe . |
| 17 | While he may be a dead ringer for the hero of Nintendo 's Game Boy , Mario Zupanovic can never hope to earn the hundreds of millions of pounds that the ‘ other ’ Mario has already made around the world . |
| 18 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 19 | Sergeant-Major Céar Méléra , a tough adventurer , who had sailed around the world in peacetime and who appeared little affected by the horrors of war , describes his experience of Verdun shell-fire initially with an unemotional economy of words : ‘ Filthy night , shells . ’ |
| 20 | The pictures rapidly transmitted around the world . |
| 21 | The other channel will draw on TV programmes transmitted around the world and will be financed entirely from licence fees , which will have to increase as a result . |
| 22 | among the dozens of grape varieties grown around the world stand out from the rest . |
| 23 | Production is sited around the world to provide a source for export to neighbouring countries . |
| 24 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |
| 25 | She sailed around the world between 1872 and 1876 , under the scientific direction of Charles Wyville Thomson , and was equipped with a chemical laboratory and many other up-to-date scientific facilities . |
| 26 | A woman of immense determination and stamina , Wanda 's death will be keenly felt around the world . |
| 27 | The nineteen eighty two to three event was one of the most severe on record and its affects were felt around the world . |
| 28 | The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world . |
| 29 | Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the world . |
| 30 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |