Example sentences of "a world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illustrated periodical was a phenomenon of a world which Baudelaire saw as reborn on Guys ' paper : |
| 2 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 3 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 4 | The Gothic novel was shaped to take account of such a world , and to do so , very often , in the guise of entertainment . |
| 5 | He is the artist 's friend , and a friend of the mimic and poseur , in a world of masks , multiplicities , contraries and successive interpretations . |
| 6 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 7 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 8 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 9 | A World Apart is a ‘ truly golden ’ work , despite the presence in it , apparently , of a foul anti-Semitism . |
| 10 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 11 | The Jacobean dramatists created a world of passion and violence ‘ vividly theatrical . |
| 12 | You inhabit a world without hope , she says to me . |
| 13 | The desire for a world freed of banality , confusion . |
| 14 | We live in the fading twilight of an ‘ overpubbed ’ urban world ; a world which , even within living memory , gave the citizens of a small city like York the choice to drink in a different pub for every day of the year . |
| 15 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 16 | But Bevan and Radclyffe quickly proved that ‘ Laundrette ’ was not a one hit wonder by going on to produce ‘ WISH YOU WERE HERE ’ , which made Emily Lloyd a Hollywood hot property , followed by the powerful and moving ‘ A WORLD APART ’ . |
| 17 | Nolte is a declining star in a world he increasingly discovers is more about money and power than sport . |
| 18 | It 's a world I can understand , Jeff — not this place . |
| 19 | ‘ They should all be forced to spend a week here — it would do them a world of good . ’ |
| 20 | I watched a world that should have been behind glass and yet I was the one who was behind glass and reality was theirs . |
| 21 | I do n't have that great an affection for this place but at least it 's a world I know . ’ |
| 22 | The police world is one of preventing , detaining ; arresting , stopping , containing , denying , and rebutting ; it is a world of diffused and hidden versions of reality where deflection is a prominent tool of the trade . |
| 23 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 24 | There is a world of difference between research findings based on safe academic principles and methodology , and those produced with graphic literary phrases , but based upon anecdotal heresay , recorded by listeners blessed with total recall . |
| 25 | It is worth noting the language in the Federation rebuttal of the PSI report , for it illustrates how the culture is programmed to sneer at the ‘ graphic literary phrase ’ and dismiss the use of ‘ anecdotal material ’ as unscientific : while participant observation is considered to be a world away from ‘ research based on safe academic principles ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 26 | In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ . |
| 27 | In such a world many graduates learn to play down their qualifications , for they know the hostility which exists towards academia and realize the significance of ‘ practical ability ’ gained in ‘ the university of real life ’ . |
| 28 | In such a world the very idea of research and academic prowess becomes charged with structural ambiguity simply because it creates the potential for outsiders to bring challenging concepts across boundaries which , at other times , are sacrosanct . |
| 29 | In Castenada 's case , he ‘ enters a world so different that he comes to accept reality itself as nothing but a social construct , with effects so devastating … that ethnography becomes mysticism ’ ( Goward 1984 : 90 ) . |
| 30 | During this time of subjective observing participation , the policeman/insider moves to the margins , to a point where analysis negates automatic approval or predisposition for a world of known categories and classifications . |