Example sentences of "world have [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York makes for a glaring contrast , its sky-scraping towers and constantly changing moods stamping this whirlpool of a metropolis with an excitement and energy the world has rarely seen ; Washington DC acts as a statement of political dominance , retaining a cool air of refined detachment in its stately buildings and gracious avenues . |
| 2 | And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity . |
| 3 | The islands were well-known for their beauty to the passengers of the steamships passing up and down the Straits , but few of those who leant on their ship 's rail on sultry moonlit evenings , gazing out at the serene islands could ever have conceived that they were to be the site of some of the most catastrophic events that the world has ever seen . |
| 4 | HOT STUFF tells the story of ballroom dancing wimp Joe Soap who sells his soul to the devil , Lucy Fur , in order to become the biggest rock star the world has ever seen . |
| 5 | His hearing is being handled by top defence lawyer Alan Dershowitz and King , Tyson 's manager and boxing 's most flamboyant promoter , declared : ‘ As soon as he gets out Mike is going to set about proving he is the best heavyweight the world has ever seen . |
| 6 | These are blotted out by the dominant images of Christian England and the establishment and power of the greatest empire the world has ever seen . |
| 7 | Unless Versailles was radically revised , argued Morel , the League would become ‘ the most powerful engine of oppression the world has ever seen . ’ |
| 8 | We are creating the most effective secret police the world has ever seen . |
| 9 | 1-2-3 for Windows is a direct descendant of Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS — the most famous , and the best-selling spreadsheet the world has ever seen . |
| 10 | WHEN King Juan Carlos declares the Olympic Games open in Barcelona on July 25 they will be the biggest sporting festival the world has ever seen , with over 160 countries meeting in 25 sports . |
| 11 | The payment of these separation allowances , which Eleanor Rathbone called ‘ the largest experiment in the State endowment of maternity the world has ever seen ’ ( Rathbone , 1917 ; p. 55 ) , was important in two respects . |
| 12 | ‘ Soon you will be part of the Third Reich , the greatest empire the world has ever seen . ’ |
| 13 | We have produced , over several centuries , some of the finest porcelain the world has ever seen . |
| 14 | There is also the village of Ackworth , where Geoff Boycott took his first faltering steps at the crease to become the greatest cricketer that the world has ever seen and a great Yorkshireman . |
| 15 | Notts County Football Club are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen . |
| 16 | We 'll have one of the biggest refugee problems , violent refugees , the world has ever seen . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Red Adair said that : " this is absolutely the worst-case scenario of what the Iraqis could do — it 's something the world has never seen before " . |
| 18 | It ushered in a period of expansion over the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s the like of which the world had rarely seen . |
| 19 | Some may have visited the other side , but most have stayed at home living with political , economic and cultural systems that have very little in common except the original reason that they came into being — the biggest war the world had yet seen . |
| 20 | The inaugural World Championships was the finest track and held meeting that the world had ever seen . |
| 21 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 22 | But the majority of Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living the world had ever seen . |
| 23 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 24 | Protected by the noise , which surely signified the most hideously active stoking the world had ever seen , I began to search about , even daring to light a flambeau , which was all this ground floor seemed to warrant in the way of illumination . |
| 25 | Victorian cities caused our ancestors to gape with awe , admiration or horror , for the world had never seen anything like them before . |