Example sentences of "the world " in BNC.

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1 But the emphasis for ERS-1 is science , as the ERS programme is ESA 's contribution to Woce , the World Ocean Circulation Experiment , an important part of global climate research in the 1990s .
2 The World Ocean Circulation Experiment begins next year and extends to 1995 .
3 The contents of this chapter have scarcely touched upon such important environmental research as the World Ocean Climate Experiment or the World Climate Research Programme .
4 They remind themselves that it is all linked , one body of water , one mass of 329 million cubic miles of brine , and with unaffected simplicity they call it the World Ocean .
5 Its area takes up fully one third of the entire earth 's surface ; it makes up half of the World Ocean .
6 A survey of the subpolar North Atlantic was made in August 1991 as a contribution to the World Ocean Circulation Experiment .
7 Climber 's and Hiker 's Guide to the World 's Mountains
8 They are books which bring together all three of the worlds we inhabit , and they are books which appear to thrive on being seen through — on the transparency of their suggestion that tyrannies , that sycophancy , conspiracy and repression , courts and courtiers , are all on the royal right , and in the bush , and running into the sand .
9 But it is also that the worlds which Burrows evokes are very intimate and very enclosed .
10 He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas .
11 An album of Goodman 's contact prints , interleaved with letters from his sitters , survives in the National Portrait Gallery , and includes a variety of subjects from the worlds of art , theatre , design , cinema and society .
12 There is something a little distasteful about the head of the biggest international refugee organisation preferring to travel first class to solve the problems of the worlds dispossessed .
13 The quatrain poems bind up such sympathies with a way of thinking which owed much to anthropology and Eliot 's growing wish to include in his work the worlds of both the savage and the city .
14 One of these , surely , is Sweeney Agonistes where the worlds of jazz , primitive ritual , and Greek drama again combine in an anthropological perspective .
15 In its attempt to unite the worlds of city and savage , Sweeney Agonistes had been all too clearly founded on the fertility rite as presented by Comford 's investigation .
16 As the worlds of savage and sexuality had gone together in the earlier poetry , now , together , they seem banished .
17 In order to standardize all these local times , the worlds has been divided into 24 time zones — each spanning 15 ° longitude .
18 YOU can do something about the situation , YOU can take personal responsibility for conserving the worlds finite resources , by not consuming meat and animal products .
19 We look at life , we look at the values that Christ has introduced , we look at the unity between the worlds of spirit and matter and we are in no doubt that we abide in God 's eternal love .
20 Roy Inman , manager of the British women 's team , said : ‘ I think Pierantozzi got quite a shock at the worlds in Barcelona last summer , and she wants to try and get the measure of Kate before they meet at the Olympics . ’
21 Perhaps H. G. Wells made the right choice when he cast octopus-like animals in the role of intelligent alien invaders in The War of the Worlds .
22 Aquinas sought systematically to bring the worlds of philosophy and theology together .
23 16.13 At secondary school , pupils should be increasingly encouraged to think critically about the texts they encounter , as a means of enlarging their understanding of the worlds of others , and in this way to examine and develop their own responses .
24 We must , therefore , bridge the worlds of principle and practice , move from the abstract to the concrete .
25 It also gives an initial view into the worlds of the mind and the wonderlands that are there waiting for all who aspire to them .
26 Why not try one of the worlds greatest fun games .
27 In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’
28 Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’
29 This amounts to a technology which liberates not only the teacher but the learner and allows both to make more intelligent connections between the worlds of school and the wider community .
30 That the worlds of business and education should learn from one another ought to be a truism , given that both worlds and cultures impinge on and shape most people 's lives .
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