Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the globe " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills of the authorities in responding to stockmarket crashes , the spread of economic weight around the globe , the fact that the economic cycles of Japan and Germany seem unsynchronised with those of America and Britain , the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilisers in modern economies — all these are most reassuring . |
| 2 | But the main goal of the 1990s could be to transform a big , heavily armed standing army into a more flexible force , capable of rapid deployment around the globe . |
| 3 | It simulates a system of long waves in the jet stream around the globe , together with a set of short waves superimposed on them . |
| 4 | And where we 're going the winds come from right around the globe . ’ |
| 5 | The BBC World Service has unrivalled standing around the globe . |
| 6 | The kind of technological developments demanded by the Plan , from new types of automobile propulsion to reformulated hair-sprays , will heavily influence technical research and development around the globe . |
| 7 | Darwin was one of a small group of naturalists who took the opposite route , following Lyell in the search for natural processes at work in the present and the recent past that would throw light on the distribution of life around the globe today . |
| 8 | Since she left Downing Street , Lady T has sensibly turned her attention elsewhere and built herself a new and interesting life around the globe . |
| 9 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 10 | Anyone with the slightest interest in aviation will know of the array of technical devices which enable a pilot to navigate himself and his aircraft with pinpoint accuracy around the globe . |
| 11 | These one-time costs once met could be leveraged over much more business activity around the globe than we then enjoyed . |
| 12 | NOT since the heady days of Shirley Temple tapping her dinky way around the globe has a pint-sized child star held the Hollywood moguls in such thrall . |
| 13 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 14 | Rapidly increasing livestock production around the globe is threatening the environment by promoting overgrazing , deforestation , water pollution and methane emissions according to a study by the Worldwatch Institute . |