Example sentences of "over the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's constant watch over the created world is compared to that of a female bird caring for its young , or a woman suckling her child ( these images come from the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament ) . |
| 2 | They flew in a magical world of silence , swooping and gliding over the dark world below where all the earthly people were fast asleep in their beds . |
| 3 | All over the Western world electorates are , to put it simply , pissed off . |
| 4 | All over the Western world there were liberation movements and alternative life-styles — there had never been a kids ' crusade like it — and Hairy Back would n't let her stay out after eleven . |
| 5 | All over the Western world an intelligentsia had recently been at war with itself : the screaming-point being reached and passed in 1935–6 , with Mussolini 's violent seizure of Ethiopia and the outbreak of civil war in Spain . |
| 6 | It has enormous resources , and controlling interests in key outfits all over the Western world . ’ |
| 7 | This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces . |
| 8 | God gives man control over the newly-made world and all its creatures . |
| 9 | Nightly over the round world of men , |
| 10 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 11 | Soviet influence over the non-communist world was exercised through a variety of agencies , among them a network of about 100 non-ruling parties which , in the late 1980s , had a total membership of more than 80 million . |
| 12 | They were made into medicines , perfumes and unguents by the Egyptian priests and priestesses who became so renowned for their skills that sages and physicians from all over the ancient world came to Egypt to study medicine and the Mysteries . |
| 13 | To grasp the mystic significance of numbers — for instance , the two poles of Solomon 's litter , and the four struts that supported its canopy — was to acquire ( as some wielders of power in modern times have done through astrology ) a sense of control over the contemporary world : to explain the failure of some policies , to plan and time others more effectively . |
| 14 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 15 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 16 | Ecclesiastics from all over the Christian world trained in Ireland . |
| 17 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 18 | Man has dominion over the natural world . |
| 19 | At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world . |
| 20 | The spectacular achievements of technology have dazzled people into awe at the marvels of human inventiveness and mastery over the natural world ; as well as promoting an unprecedented emphasis on mechanical and organizational efficiency . |
| 21 | He summoned scholars and men of wisdom from all over the known world , his main personal tutor and mentor being Alcuin of Northumberland from England . |
| 22 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 23 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 24 | There are very many sixth-century kouroi from all over the Greek world . |
| 25 | The only slight cloud hanging over the Australian World Cup celebrations was the realisation that Nick Farr-Jones would not be there to lead them out in their next match . |
| 26 | How often is that sad refrain heard all over the English-speaking world ! |
| 27 | Gifts and visitors came from all over the English-speaking world as television stations overseas , alerted by all the publicity , snapped up transmission rights . |
| 28 | Maria paused in the doorway , surveying her new colleagues and their partners , a handful of them local people but mainly men and women from all over the English-speaking world , because radio people had a gypsy tendency to move on every few years . |
| 29 | He travels extensively over the Old World , opening relations with the Empire , Bretonnia and even the Dwarfs . |
| 30 | The Engineers School attracts inventors from all over the Old World and has provided the Empire with a number of experimental weapons such as repeating muskets and pistols , multiple-barrelled cannons , mobile battle-towers called War Wagons , and the formidable Steam Tank . |