Example sentences of "[verb] in the world " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Belgian variety with a very low salt content and one of the best known mineral waters in the world . |
| 2 | The beautiful and historic town of Buxton , in the Peak District of Derbyshire , is source of one of the purest natural mineral waters in the world . |
| 3 | For decades , the River Kennet near Marlborough was one of the best trout-fishing waters in the world ; until 4 years ago , when several hundred rainbow trout escaped from this fish farm at Mildenhall . |
| 4 | It could be that social psychologists have much to learn from the practical knowledge contained in common everyday sense and could more usefully pursue questions of how common sense helps us act in the world , instead of criticising its supposed inadequacies and developing new improved uncommon sense based on the laboratory subject . |
| 5 | If there is any reason for hope , it lies in the world 's lack of interest . |
| 6 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 7 | There is no indication that the same is occurring in the world 's most populous countries . |
| 8 | Yet this you would expect ; it is one of the hallmarks of the dominant culture , after all , that it is about thirty to fifty years behind what is actually occurring in the world in the present time . |
| 9 | Pure research is an attempt to produce a coherent framework of the facts and events occurring in the world around us . |
| 10 | This disruption of spatio-temporal assumptions was not only paralleled in the world of art but also in philosophy , from the incorporation of time and space into the subject in Kant 's ‘ transcendental aesthetic ’ to Bergmann 's writings . |
| 11 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 12 | Without any doubt ZIMBABWE captain Andy Ferreira 's men must count themselves unlucky to have missed the semi-finals , and with it the chance of appearing in the World Cup tournament in Scotland . |
| 13 | The language of formula and the mass market , already appearing in the world of 1880s British music hall song ( see A. Bennett 1986 : 9–10 ) , is heard particularly clearly in the United States against the backdrop of the new industrial methods of ‘ Fordism ’ . |
| 14 | Commented Aileen Collins retrospectively , ‘ … our study of literature in no way reflected what we knew was happening in the world … ( we aspired ) to let in new voices , and essentially to jolt Canadians from their lethargy and narrow-mindedness . |
| 15 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 16 | ‘ But a lot 's been happening in the world since we 've been training here . ’ |
| 17 | Many creatures , too , use visible light to tell them what is happening in the world immediately around them . |
| 18 | Both keep going , even if it means a great effort and both keep their minds active by reading , talking and keeping up with what 's happening in the world . |
| 19 | Thus , it was through the work and recommendations of its special committees that the Institution took cognisance of what was happening in the world around it , and was able to lead its membership toward a more enlightened view of educational thought and progress and away from the traditional one of on-the-job training supported by evening or postal tuition surmounted by the Institution 's examination . |
| 20 | What 's happening in the world of electronics |
| 21 | It is Ego that , like a moving camera , shows us what is happening in the world . |
| 22 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 23 | WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 30 YEARS AGO |
| 24 | Small boys living in the country did n't take in fully what was happening in the world . |
| 25 | Paradox 4 does n't ignore what 's been happening in the world of Windows , either . |
| 26 | And talking of which , what 's been happening in the world at large since my incarceration in this impromptu dungeon ? ’ |
| 27 | In any other sphere of life , when the demand for your product collapses for reasons entirely beyond your control , you do n't try to drum up new custom , you wind the business down and go into something more profitable ’ ‘ But there is a disturbing feeling about that something irreversible may be happening in the world and it is not to Britain 's advantage . |
| 28 | ‘ I have my duties , ’ replied Dr Neil , assuming a pompous voice , ‘ and one of them is to know what is happening in the world . |
| 29 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 30 | ‘ Not just work — politics , things that are happening in the world — ’ He felt the argument slipping away , was conscious of the contradictions in his own feelings . |