Example sentences of "[be] a world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rules , though , do n't always apply when you 're a world champion . |
| 2 | While there has been a world recession to contend with on top of the problems the UK would otherwise have faced since 1979 , public choice theorists would not be surprised that the Conservative government has sought to minimize the level of reported unemployment . |
| 3 | THE Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( usually abbreviated to JPL ) has been a world leader in space research from the earliest days of the subject . |
| 4 | For over 40 years , Hughes Aircraft Company has been a world leader IN defense and space electronics , systems engineering , and satellite communications . |
| 5 | The opening ceremony represented Courtaulds ' opportunity to rededicate itself to a business in which it has been a world leader throughout most of this century … |
| 6 | Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up . |
| 7 | With regular top-level practice he would have been a world beater ’ . |
| 8 | He had been a World War I hero in the Gallipoli and Zeebrugge landings , and in 1940 , aged 68 , was the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth . |
| 9 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 10 | no I know it 's a bit early erm , but it 's not too early to start thinking that you are a world citizen , you 're not just Jayne and you 've got a contribution to make , because if you 've got this |
| 11 | Hills said : ‘ Jason Leonard , Brian Moore and Jeff Probyn are a world class front-row team and in our positions you need to know each other very well . |
| 12 | Indy is a one-off ; to be a world champion in FI it takes putting all the marbles together over a whole season . |
| 13 | He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him . |
| 14 | This is not going to be a world record-breaking National . |
| 15 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 16 | Said Coleman : ‘ Now we are going to be a world player . ’ . |
| 17 | Birmingham 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies is wide acknowledged to be a world leader in its field . |
| 18 | This shows BT is determined to be a world class company not a Little England business . |
| 19 | Gloucestershire 's Richard Mainwaring is so good he walks on water … the British Barefoot Water ski-ing champion defends his title at the Cirencester Club in the Cotswold Water Park this weekend … he 's looking for his ninth win and that will be a world record … |
| 20 | Mhm , it 's got ta be a world record that I would think in a world cup . |
| 21 | The Cumulative Book Index is an American publication which claims to be a world list of books in the English language . |
| 22 | This index is claimed to be a world list of books in the English language . |
| 23 | ‘ The only things they can offer you is things like making grass grow on colliery spoil heaps or being a world expert on how a locust eats grass , ’ says Peter . |
| 24 | It 's a world event . |
| 25 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 26 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 27 | He 's a world expert on Russian art , is n't he ? ’ |
| 28 | think of him he 's a world expert on CONDAM everything |
| 29 | Erm , I know there 's a world conference at the assembly , central hall , Westminster , twenty second of February . |
| 30 | Company men , like former world champion racing driver Jackie Stewart believe it 's a world beater . |