Example sentences of "of the world [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent development with frightening implications is the isolation in several parts of the world of strains of gonococci which are not just partially resistant to penicillin , but can produce an enzyme , Β-lactamase , which actually breaks down and neutralizes penicillin completely . |
| 2 | In fact , there seems to be some feeling here that China has fallen right behind the rest of the world in matters of language study and language teaching methodology , so I found myself , on one day , giving a résumé of Linguistics in the west over the past 50 years ! |
| 3 | I can not understand my conception of the world in terms of , or reduce it to , some account of my dispositions , as it seems plausible one might for the rat 's ( or any third person 's ) conception of the world and its dispositions . |
| 4 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 5 | It would , therefore , be instructive to classify the nations of the world in terms of their oil and cereal resources , as measured by the degree to which they are self-sufficient or seriously dependent on others for their supplies . |
| 6 | The structure of the economy is clearly the basis on which to build a classification of the countries of the world in terms of their economic growth , or lack of it . |