Example sentences of "world [unc] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the world 's toughest races gets underway later this year . |
| 2 | I understand that a rival bid from India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka to jointly stage the competition is worth £300,000 more and will prove more attractive when the world 's cricketing nations meet in London in early February . |
| 3 | I understand that a rival bid from India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka to jointly stage the competition is worth £300,000 more and will prove more attractive when the world 's cricketing nations meet in London in early February . |
| 4 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 5 | However , it seems likely that the world 's seventh-biggest economy has put the worst behind it . |
| 6 | Abutting the Skeleton Coast , that legendary graveyard of mariners and ships , it is here that the last of the world 's black rhino range free , while galloping hyenas and lunging kudu buck comprise the main traffic hazards . |
| 7 | Jan Laurens Brinkhorst , environmental director for the European Community ( EC ) , noted that the US produces 25 per cent of the world 's carbon-dioxide emissions compared to 13 per cent from all 12 EC nations , which together have an economy about equal to the US in size . |
| 8 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 9 | Events in the race itself summon up less pious images , for this running of the world 's greatest Classic saw a brawling match up the straight and a sensational disqualification which to many smelled of more than one personal vendetta . |
| 10 | Abseiling is the most dangerous single thing mountaineers do and many of the world 's greatest climbers have been killed abseiling . |
| 11 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 12 | Thames Valley Police have rounded up some of the world 's fastest cars to ram home the anti-speeding message . |
| 13 | On the Mercedes-Benz stand all was quiet contemplation and sober judgements as the world 's automotive sages basked in a recyclable , CFC-free attempt at justifying a double-glazed , 408bhp V12 monolith weighing more than two tonnes , 17ft long and called the new Mercedes S-class . |
| 14 | By 1914 , it has been estimated , the world 's diplomatic services included some 300 or so such attachés . |
| 15 | Looking at the overseas receipts for UK financial institutions , two transport-related bodies , the Baltic Exchange , whose members are involved in more than half the world 's international ship chartering business , and Lloyd 's register of Shipping figure prominently . |
| 16 | The world 's strategic balance had been upset dramatically . |
| 17 | Over the last generation , the world 's poorest states have become immeasurably poorer as a result of well-meaning engagement with the developed world . |
| 18 | And to the many other ways in which CARE is helping the world 's poorest people to find a way out of poverty and ill-health . |
| 19 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 20 | It is here that the Old World 's finest wizards learn their art , and where the Empire 's deadly Battle Wizards are trained . |
| 21 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 22 | Just as the enthronement of the dollar at the centre of the world 's monetary system symbolized US dominance at the end of the war , so the weakening of the dollar was to symbolize the erosion of that power . |
| 23 | THAT HORRIBLE gap at the weekend when the world 's financial markets close and the investor suffers withdrawal symptoms , is to be filled by a gilt-edged scheme from stockbrokers Wise Speke . |
| 24 | We can not enter into this philosophical debate here , but what we should note — and what will be obvious to anyone soaked in the traditions of religion — is that all the world 's religious faiths use endless analogies for God with promiscuous abandon . |
| 25 | World 's ancient breeds threatened by Western livestock |
| 26 | It also bears the world 's smallest fruit weighing .15 milligrams . |
| 27 | This is the underlying truth which provides the reason for the failure of the world 's great religions to provide harmony on earth . |
| 28 | They were in awe of him because you would never have guessed from meeting him how immensely wealthy he was , and because you would never have guessed from knowing how immensely wealthy he was how immensely clever he was as well , and because he was called Freddie when his initials were A. P. J. You 'd catch a glimpse of this tall , stooped figure crossing Trinity Great Court , with one shoulder held slightly higher than the other , and you 'd know you were watching one of the world 's great fortunes walking about , plus , on the same two lanky legs , behind the same untidily dangling forelock , one of the world 's great instruments of serious scholarship . |
| 29 | The world 's great mammals have , however , been edged away from centre-stage recently . |
| 30 | The project is currently awaiting a green light from the government in Brasilia — which , aware of the need to counteract a reputation as the world 's ecological villain has given it a favourable hearing . |