Example sentences of "[art] world [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within this framework , Ryan makes two main proposals , both extremely interesting : first , that plot-advancing propositions can be defined as those that affect , directly or indirectly , the relationships between the worlds that make up the textual universe ( Chapter 7 ) ; second , that the aesthetic value or " tellability " of a story partly depends on the degree of diversification of such worlds , i.e. on the richness of the virtual situations and events that only exist in the minds of the characters ( whether they are explicitly mentioned in the narrative or need to be inferred by readers ) ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 2 | And inwardly in his mind and in his thoughts , he will survey all the present creation and the worlds that have passed or are still standing ; the years of the world with all the happenings that occurred in it , and the men with their wealth and their power ; the revelations of the [ spiritual ] benefits which were bestowed on the Fathers , and the retributory judgements that took place generation after generation [ or ‘ birth after birth' ] , together with all the various vicissitudes which the affairs of the creation undergo . |
| 3 | But a view of the world that divided it so sharply between good and evil could only increase tension and lead to some clumsy decisions . |
| 4 | What is needed is that disability arts ( and the disability movement ) does not simply imitate the view of the world that pleases white , middle-class males . |
| 5 | It might be the only city in the world that speaks ‘ English proper ’ , and English is easily the reigning language in the financial world , but success can breed complacency , and complacency sloppiness . |
| 6 | I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent . |
| 7 | This , in turn , opens up the possibility of a unified account of the world that encompasses not only physical but also mental events . |
| 8 | This is what happens when a person lives locked inside a view of the world that does not take the existence of others into account ’ . |
| 9 | There is hardly a spadeful of soil anywhere in the world that does not contain some of them . |
| 10 | I also asked him to get in touch with the FAA in Washington so that they , as the airworthiness authority which originally certified the aircraft type as airworthy , could take appropriate action by informing the airworthiness authorities of all the States in the world that operated those aircraft . |
| 11 | There are few forested areas of the world that remain untouched by human activity and those that do remain are unlikely to survive intact in the future . |
| 12 | Only the expert eye of their Capellan adviser could tell where , in all that wilderness of basalt and shale , might lie hidden a clue to the world that had been lost . |
| 13 | Through a local human rights group , to whom copies of appeals had been sent , he got hold of photocopies of all the letters from around the world that had been written on his behalf . |
| 14 | Domestically , it was necessary to prevent ‘ sinister interests ’ from dominating the political process — the world that had been made safe for democracy had to be kept safe by democracy . |
| 15 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 16 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 17 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 18 | Yoshida 's attitude to communism was pragmatic : while he disliked communism as an ideology , it was necessary to deal with the world that existed . |
| 19 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 20 | That 's the only pub in the world that sells them . |
| 21 | His grand-daughter , Tatyana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) , writes sometimes as if she were in direct communication with the ghosts of the world that vanished when Alexei Nikolaevich was still a young man . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 23 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 24 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
| 25 | There have been cars done by lots of people round the world that missed their targets . |
| 26 | A theory is essentially a model of the world that draws an analogy between the process we are trying to understand and one we already know about . |
| 27 | The cuisine of France has contributed so much to the culinary traditions of the world that to attempt to summarise all that is good about French cooking in the space of a page or two would be impossible . |
| 28 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 29 | Great Aerobatic Teams of the World ( Aviation Week Video , 52 mins , colour £12.99 ) looks at some of the military aerobatic teams around the world that thrill airshow audiences each year . |
| 30 | So some of us went to Victoria Falls and I went to Durban where I had some relatives and attended the July Handicap , the only horse race in the world that runs through the streets . |