Example sentences of "[verb] that [art] world is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout church history , and as we move towards the eschaton , we must recognise that the world is not yet kingdom territory . |
| 2 | Wring our hands and bleat that the world is ‘ interdependent ’ , ignoring the plain truth that interdependence without equity leads only to the deepening dependency of the weaker ? |
| 3 | A law of American life says that the world is a market , and markets are what you cater to . |
| 4 | As to the future , Mr Sandy says that the world is Grant 's oyster . |
| 5 | It 's Christmas , 1912 , and as the McKie family prepare for the festivities , the ambitions of the younger members show that the world is rapidly changing . |
| 6 | Even if I also ca n't help believing that the world is bound to end soon . |
| 7 | It is an intellectual leap of the same order as believing that the world is round . |
| 8 | The excitement of The Place of the Lion is in its power to shake the reader up — to make us feel that the world is not the place we thought it was . |
| 9 | Thus , he argued , while we may well believe that the world is in fact designed by God , we can not prove it . |
| 10 | We are always being told that the world is shrinking and that the new technology is bringing the inhabitants of planet earth ever closer together , whether they like it or not . |
| 11 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 12 | And so if we could start from these unquestionable little bits of reality , and build everything out of this by pure logical construction , we would have shown that the world is coherent and logical , and we would have shown that ordinary beliefs erm were not open to doubt , were rational and certain . |
| 13 | Just remember that the world is looking at we Christians . |
| 14 | You 'll discover that the world is n't , after all , the hostile place it has appeared to be recently . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying that the world is perfect . |
| 16 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 17 | We believe that the world is passing through a period of considerable instability and therefore we do not propose further reductions in our defence forces . |
| 18 | So unless there is something very wrong with elementary physics , it seems that the world is bound to warm up by about 2°C by AD 2050 . |
| 19 | It 's very important for a chairman or chief executive to recognise that the world is going to change . |
| 20 | We therefore , quite understandably , make the error of assuming that the world is essentially a visual one . |
| 21 | There is clearly no logical inconsistency involved in claiming , on the one hand , that relations must be regarded as a sub-species of properties ( in the broad sense of the latter term ) , and assuming that the world is an agglomerate of many different entities , on the other . |
| 22 | He insisted that the world is run by powerful but sick people who control others because they have failed to eroticize their experience in a harmless way . |
| 23 | A man convinced that the world is a trap , that existence is plagued by death , can ill afford to have complete faith in the established order , whether of the Right or the Left . |
| 24 | It means that the world is a slightly is a slightly safer place because if you do n't do this , if you do n't flirt , then it wo n't happen . |
| 25 | But this implies that the world is an entity other than God and God has given it freedom and thus the possibility of ‘ going wrong ’ , of producing evil , sin , pain and suffering , whatever explanation we may try to give of how such things have come about — at least they are only too obvious in the world we know . |
| 26 | In the Third Act he realizes that the world is against him but he is intelligent enough to know that he is the victim of his own weaknesses . |