Example sentences of "[prep] the world in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though two of the G7 countries — Britain and America — now appear to be in recession , the likeliest outlook for the world in 1991 is a tolerable mixture of slower growth and lower inflation than of late , with a brighter year to follow in 1992 . |
| 2 | Wishing to be faithful to the whole biblical tradition ( unlike many moderns ) , the church fathers insisted that Satan was a rebel but that he was also somehow connected to God 's purposes and plans for the world in terms of both judgment and deliverance . |
| 3 | One response which can be made to the gap which exists between the world in which Christianity came into being and the present world is to allow what is to be held to be essentially normative for the religion to reside in the past . |
| 4 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 5 | It depends on the simple and indisputable fact that ideas and cultural artefacts travel , hopping from continent to continent and distributing themselves about the world in the wake of migrations and along trade routes . |
| 6 | However much you pile up facts about the world in order to support an ethical case , you can not get an ethical conclusion unless you take some ethical premiss for granted , in a way which usually just begs the question against those with whom you disagree . |
| 7 | As we have said , much is known today about the world in which Jesus lived , the Palestine of two thousand years ago . |
| 8 | Ramsay [ 1987 ] argues that two types of knowledge are used in the process of understanding : linguistic knowledge ( i.e. knowledge about language itself ) , and world knowledge ( i.e. knowledge about the world in general ) . |
| 9 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 10 | The graduate will not even be tied to the current set of accepted truths about the world in the discipline . |
| 11 | An' inside ye 'll find all the truth about the world in which we live . |
| 12 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 15 | The film star Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages and apologies in the High Court for allegations in the News of the World in February 1988 that he held ‘ fervent Nazi and anti-semitic views ’ and was a ‘ secret admirer of Hitler ’ . |
| 16 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 17 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 18 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman launched a two month promotional tour of the world in London with a glittering party . |
| 19 | The men watched him silently as he strode on , their brown shirts at one with the autumn in the Tiergarten , as colour drained out of the world in preparation for winter . |
| 20 | He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave . |
| 21 | Related forms are spread over much of the world in Ordovician and Silurian times . |
| 22 | The prospect of such a season of leisure towards the decline of life , is one of the strongest motives to a man to go steadily on year after year with the drudgery of business ; indeed without it , the complete absorption of many men 's minds in the affairs of the world in the early and middle part of life would be hardly justifiable . |
| 23 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 24 | He was described as ‘ leader of the world in fashion ’ , ‘ the great buck ’ , ‘ the Prince of hosts ’ , ‘ the gay cavalier ’ and ‘ the Prince of Australia ’ . |
| 25 | What happened in Pomerania also happened elsewhere , but in Pomerania the processes were accentuated because the place was so far behind the rest of the world in its social and economic order , and because its mixed Polish and German population accentuated the clash between the rural and industrial identities and social orders . |
| 26 | St Mary 's Cathedral is thus the focal point of the Middlesbrough Diocese , the centre of its liturgical life , and its link with all the Bishops of the world in communion with the Bishop of Rome . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 28 | The Creator of the World in Indian mythology , his four faces contemplate the four far comers of the world he has made . |
| 29 | Like Julian Barnes ' A History Of The World In 10½ Chapters , the novel is — once the shreds of ulterior motive have been filed away — simply a series of impersonations . |
| 30 | Essentially , the industrial world was divided into ‘ them and us ’ ; a dichotomous view of the world in which there are those who manage and those who are managed . |