Example sentences of "from the world of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seclusion period is closed by an elaborate ceremony that emphasizes the spatial and emotional removal of young men from the world of women . |
| 2 | Sport , as John Gillis put it , in Youth and History , took on many of the functions of the rites of passage once reserved to the Latin language , and enshrined the separation of boys from the world of women . |
| 3 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 4 | This CD features 10,000 colour and black and white pictures of people from the world of sport , theatre , politics , art , religion and music and is designed to make picture research less demanding on both time and resources . |
| 5 | I considered I had had a sheltered upbringing — perhaps ‘ genteel ’ is nearer the mark — but she came from the world of country weekends , day and night nurseries , nannies , and never having to worry about where next week 's housekeeping money was coming from , or having to do the washing up . |
| 6 | The letter from the world of letters . |
| 7 | Earlier this year , on April the twenty second , her Royal Highness , the Princess Royal , entertained various representatives from the world of entertainment and sport and journalism at Buckingham Palace . |
| 8 | If you come from the world of MS-DOS or Windows , 1m is not that big , because we sell over 1.5m copies of Windows and over 2m copies of MS-DOS every month . ’ |
| 9 | If you come from the world of MS-DOS or Windows , 1m is not that big , because we sell over 1.5m copies of Windows and over 2m copies of MS-DOS every month . ’ |
| 10 | The arbitration of right action is again much more open to influence from the world of adults and , in particular , teachers . |
| 11 | He was not lying when , in Wednesday 's rather pitiful TV interviews aimed at persuading his party not to dump him , he said he had been inundated with letters of support from the world of music , opera , theatre , films and sport . |
| 12 | I know none of this interests you any longer , he wrote , and that you hold yourself , or pretend to hold yourself , aloof from the world , and in particular from the world of art . |
| 13 | These observers will be drawn not just from the world of art history but will also include scholars , philosophers , writers and musicians . |
| 14 | She too became a victim , but to many of the young , observing from out in the sticks , far even from the world of CND , she was a victor . |
| 15 | This instrument had been introduced in the West in the eleventh century from the world of Islam , which in those days enjoyed a higher degree of civilization and of scientific and technological expertise than the West . |
| 16 | But the domain has shifted from the world of molecules to a larger scale . |
| 17 | Letters were fantastic tricks of the imagination , tangible messages received from the world of day dreams . |
| 18 | I suppose the classic example comes not from a book but from the world of film , Inspector Clouseau as portrayed by Peter Sellers . |
| 19 | They either function as addressees , marking the important " conversational " or " interpersonal " character of the Odes , or they are figures from the world of gods and heroes . |
| 20 | Culturally it was the bourgeois life style which prevailed over the aristocratic , if only by a fairly general withdrawal of the old aristocracy from the world of culture ( as that word was now understood ) : they became , in so far as they were not already , the ‘ barbarians ’ of Matthew Arnold ( 1822–88 ) . |
| 21 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 22 | I missed the joy of knowing , in the back of my mind , that someone wanted me , that sometimes , when we could manage it , I could escape from the world of work , washing and worrying into a place of pure pleasure . |
| 23 | There are many ways in which people and resources from the world of work can directly enhance and support students ' learning . |
| 24 | become cut off from the world of work … . |
| 25 | Good taste became associated with the expression of distance from the world of work , the practical or the natural world , and was termed ‘ refined ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , being dissociated from that which could be regarded as ‘ cheap ’ ( 1970 : 112 ) . |
| 26 | It is little wonder , then , that ostracism and gossip were such powerful ways of enforcing the values and standards of village life , nor that the criteria of status and prestige in the community also tended to be derived from the world of work . |
| 27 | The house from the world of houses . |
| 28 | Your monthly guide to news and views from the world of gardening |
| 29 | Your monthly guide to news and views from the world of gardening |
| 30 | They can come from the world of fantasy as in Les Sylphides or reality as in Enigma Variations . |