I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a changing world
▪ Children are growing up in a changing world.
a developing/Third World country (=poor and trying to increase its industry and trade)
▪ Many developing countries receive some foreign aid.
a different world
▪ It’s a different world here in London.
a national/world shortage
▪ There is likely to be a world shortage of timber in the future.
a nightmare world (=a situation in which everything is bad and there is nothing good)
▪ It's hard to understand how people survived the nightmare world of the concentration camps.
a world centre for/of sth
▪ The Asian Pacific Rim is a major world centre of commerce, industry, and economic activity.
a world cruise (=around the world)
▪ How much would a world cruise cost?
a world leader (=someone who is in charge of a country)
▪ The president and other world leaders are meeting to discuss the environment.
a world power (=one with influence all over the world)
▪ The United States had replaced Great Britain as the dominant world power.
a world record
▪ Powell equalled the 100 metres world record with a time of 9.77 seconds.
a world war
▪ No one wants another world war.
a world/global/worldwide recession
▪ America’s airlines have been badly hit by the world recession.
a world/international conference
▪ the world conference on human rights
a world/international expert (=one who is known in many different countries)
▪ She is a world expert on tropical diseases.
all alone in the world (=she had no family or friends to help her or look after her)
▪ She was all alone in the world.
closed society/world/way of life
▪ Venetian art in this period was a closed world.
destroy the world/planet
▪ No one wants another war, which might destroy the world.
developed world
▪ energy consumption in the developed world
developing world
▪ poverty and hunger in the developing world
First World War
First World
▪ first world economies
global/world trade
▪ We want the poorer nations to benefit from increased global trade.
how on earth/in the world etc (=used for emphasis when you are surprised, angry etc)
▪ How on earth did you find out?
In an ideal world
▪ In an ideal world there would be no need for a police force.
international/world cricket
▪ He brought South Africa back into international cricket.
It’s a funny old world (=strange or unusual things happen in life)
▪ It’s a funny old world.
lead the world/market/pack/field
▪ US companies lead the world in biotechnology.
lived in...fantasy world
▪ He lived in a fantasy world of his own, even as a small boy.
mean the world to sb/mean everything to sb (=be very important to someone)
▪ He meant the world to her.
moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position)
▪ He’s moved up in the world in the last few years, and his new flat shows it.
New World
▪ Christopher Columbus’s voyage of discovery to the New World
of world/international/national stature
▪ Armstrong was a musician of world stature.
Old World
▪ the civilizations of the Old World
on a global/world scale (=involving the whole world)
▪ This is a product that can be sold in high volumes on a global scale.
parts of the world
▪ There are wars going on in many parts of the world.
sail around the world
▪ She always wanted to sail around the world.
set/break/beat a world record
▪ He set a new world record for the marathon.
the academic world (=the institutions, people etc involved in education)
▪ In the academic world, the theory was received less approvingly.
the business world
▪ You need to be flexible in today’s highly competitive business world.
the chess world
▪ He's a star of the chess world.
the contemporary world
▪ The environment is a major issue in the contemporary world.
the corporate world
▪ After 15 years, I really wanted to escape the corporate world.
the fashion world
▪ Small women are often overlooked by the fashion world.
the global/world climate (=the weather of the world)
▪ Scientists are assessing the impact of carbon dioxide on the global climate.
the international/world scene
▪ He is still a major figure on the international political scene.
the material world
▪ According to some, the material world is all that exists.
the modern world
▪ The island has hardly been affected by the modern world.
the most natural thing in the world
▪ At the time, accepting his offer had seemed the most natural thing in the world.
the natural world (=trees, rivers, animals, plants etc)
▪ the study of the natural world
the World Bank (=an international organization providing financial help to developing countries)
▪ The road building was funded by the World Bank.
the world champion
▪ At 22, he was the youngest world champion in the history of the game.
the world championship
▪ 29 nations competed in the world championship.
the world revolves around (=that she is the only important person)
▪ She seems to think that the world revolves around her .
the World Series (=in baseball)
the world's population
▪ Sixty percent of the world's population live in areas that are at risk from sea-level rises.
the world/global economy
▪ Rising oil prices threaten the world economy.
travel the world/country
▪ They travelled the world together.
what is the world/the country etc coming to? (=used to say that the world etc is in a bad situation)
what on earth/in the world/in heaven’s name etc (=used for emphasis when you are surprised, angry etc)
▪ What on earth’s going on?
where on earth/in the world etc (=used for emphasis when you are surprised, angry etc)
▪ Where on earth have you been all this time?
who on earth/in the world etc (=used for emphasis when you are surprised, angry etc)
▪ Who on earth would live in such a lonely place?
▪ Who the hell are you?
world crown
▪ He went on to win the world crown in 2001.
World English
world music
world of make-believe
▪ He seems to be living in a world of make-believe.
world peace
▪ The regime poses a threat to world peace.
world poverty
▪ They campaigned for an end to world poverty.
world power
world premiere (=the first performance in the world)
▪ the play’s world premiere
world rankings
▪ She is now fifth in the world rankings.
world record holder
▪ the 800 m world record holder
world record
▪ He set a new world record for the marathon.
world view
▪ the limited nineteenth-century world view
World War I/World War II
▪ He was a pilot in World War II.
World War I/World War II
▪ He was a pilot in World War II.
world war
▪ fears of another world war
world/global politics
▪ There was much going on in world politics at the time.
world/international affairs
▪ China is now a major player in world affairs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
arab
▪ As for the Arab world, their response as we were negotiating these agreements was to be expected.
▪ It stated that threats and the recourse to force against any Arab country threatened the Arab world in general.
▪ The Arab world is about to take off.
▪ This is particularly the case with relations with the Arab world.
▪ It was supposed to be a paragon of democracy in an Arab world more familiar with dictatorship than freedom.
entire
▪ He feels as if he is the only man awake in the entire world.
▪ These two chapters move through the entire world of images and ideas surrounding the divine body.
▪ She probably knows more about the nineteenth-century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world.
▪ The entire world was engulfed in a titanic struggle be-tween starkly drawn forces of good and evil.
▪ It is Labour's only no-go area in the entire world.
▪ It seems as if the entire world is ready to help and support us when our children are babies.
▪ Not so in fact across the entire Hellenic world.
▪ La Strada is really the complete catalogue of my entire mythical world...
modern
▪ How many of the ills of the modern world were not due precisely to Frankenstein's folly!
▪ The income from admission fees helps the monks finance a lifestyle that might otherwise be impossible in the modern world.
▪ However, as we know them in the modern world, there are virtually no middle classes in 1700.
▪ If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed.
▪ It was, broadly speaking, the cultural outcome of modernity, the social experience of living in the modern world.
▪ Equally important, it does not correspond to the facts of the modern world.
▪ The aim is to identify the principal aesthetic sources of the continent, both within local culture and the modern world.
▪ Theodora wondered whether it was a room which could cope with the demands of the modern world.
natural
▪ He has no mandate to violate and transgress the natural world.
▪ Like the theories of the ancient philosophers, that story is based on observations of the natural world.
▪ The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.
▪ There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal.
▪ We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world.
▪ They interact with the natural world in complex, ill-understood ways - ecology is the youngest science.
▪ Within the sacred whole, change, subjectivity, and diversity are essential characteristics of the natural world.
new
▪ The responsibility for a sustainable future appears to be swinging from the new world to the old.
▪ For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world.
▪ Michael Ledeen was also new to the world of covertly shipping arms.
▪ An entire new world had opened to Celestine: how to use chemical insight and apply it to biological problems.
▪ A few months back you were ready and willing to enter a brave new world.
▪ They long to find new worlds where freedom is possible.
▪ In the new world order capital can get out fast in times of trouble, but labour is stuck where it is.
▪ I was alive in a new, unknown world and I did not want to close my eyes on it.
outside
▪ Each company sells clothes which have a clear identity allowing the wearer to convey a particular image to the outside world.
▪ In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.
▪ We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world.
▪ Things were definitely looking up, though there was no news from the outside world to prove it.
▪ The multi-billion-pound business had already taken a severe thrashing last year, as the outside world began to shrink away from growing violence.
▪ He is our link to the outside world.
▪ Rarely did they have contact with the outside world.
▪ Their function is simply that of dealing with the business aspects of terrace life and of negotiating with the outside world.
real
▪ Some one whose name comes out of the real world.
▪ If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery, he is not living in the real world.
▪ Experimentalists suggest that randomized assignment is much more possible in the real world than many people suspect.
▪ In the real world, the science is inexact.
▪ I now think that only those who hate the real world do what I did.
▪ These take place in the real world and those involved do not know that an experiment is being conducted.
▪ Most lose interest once they enter the real world and find work in other areas. 6.
western
▪ It was established by the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 to restore economic and financial order to the Western world.
▪ Industrialisation brought with it major social upheavals across the western world.
▪ Physical complaints due to food intolerances, within a few decades, will largely be eliminated in the Western world.
▪ The Western world is making a mockery of us.
▪ A lot is at stake - maybe even the security of the whole western world.
▪ For decades black coffee became increasingly popular in the Western world, and partially eclipsed the traditional cup of tea in Britain.
▪ The man in the White House is effectively the leader of the Western world.
whole
▪ Perhaps the whole world that he thought he was experiencing was, mysteriously, an idea in some greater head.
▪ I thought it was the most beautiful spot in the whole world.
▪ In the 50s a tennis player lit up with warmth the whole world.
▪ The Cowboys love it when the whole world hates them.
▪ And then the whole world ahead exploded.
▪ For making boilers was a whole new world for Coe.
▪ Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting.
▪ She was almost a whole world to him, a country that had offered asylum.
wide
▪ Only from a self-confident Britain can we look outside to play our rightful role in the wider world.
▪ Ptolemy himself had only an armchair appreciation of the wider world.
▪ Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us, let alone been influenced by our lives.
▪ And his very best friend in the whole wide world is a rabbit.
▪ He knows little about economics or the wider world.
▪ All of these abilities equip children to move out from their families and into the wider world.
▪ It stands for a fastidious aesthetic sense of something having turned out wrong in the wide world.
▪ In the 1930s top personalities from the wider sporting world took their bruises and broken bones to Highbury.
■ NOUN
art
▪ It has become a minor occasion in the art world.
▪ Although Margarett was showing in New York, she had become a presence in the Boston art world.
▪ In the lexicon of the avant-garde art world, Meurent could not have figured as an artist.
▪ He has not held the post very long but he has worked hard and the arts world has appreciated that.
▪ Since those early years of notice, Colescott has won most of the awards and grants the art world has to give.
▪ In satirising the art world Minton was in effect expressing anger at his own role within it.
▪ Thurston has made a career in the art world out of sleek, minimal, monochrome paintings.
business
▪ Love quickly became an important figure in the business world.
▪ Since joining the business world I have seen similar techniques evoke similarly successful results.
▪ What she doesn t see is that her small-#business world is dependent on a bigger economic system.
▪ One of your greatest challenges is to make sure you are still at the heart of the business world.
▪ Franchising is the fastest growing sector in the small business world.
▪ If this were the business world, I doubt people would think this is rapid.
▪ In the business world, it is felt that this is the degree of flexibility that is required.
▪ The anytime / anyplace business world leaves those whose position in the old hierarchy gave them status and power upset and uneasy.
champion
▪ A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.
▪ And the fighter revealed he's shelling out £20,000 for sparring partners Mike Weaver and Tony Tubbs, both former world champions.
▪ In 1988 you bet you would still be world champion in 2000.
▪ Yet at least he had since enjoyed the status of becoming a world champion, courtesy of this coxless fours win.
▪ Or was he a world champion sprinter, as well as a pocket Hercules?
▪ They raced away from the drama in which world champion, Senna, crashed into Schumacher's Benetton and crashed out of the running.
championship
▪ And hopes are high that the Mersey could soon be the scene of a world championship powerboat event.
▪ This is the fourth annual world championships, following events in Berlin, London and Toronto.
▪ McCrae is now only seven points behind world championship leader Tommi Makkinen.
▪ It has been conducting intense, entertaining world championships nearly as long.
▪ Rorie Henderson starts second and Guy Pooley, his double-sculling partner in last year's world championships is eighth off.
▪ Jahangir now meets Chris Dittmar, who beat him twice in last month's world championships.
economy
▪ But this time the two biggest engines of the world economy are at risk of going into reverse.
▪ The world economy could not swallow this upheaval so easily.
▪ The impact on the long-term development of the world economy seems likely to be depressing.
▪ They see these larger regional groupings as economic insurance policies guaranteeing their participation in the world economy.
▪ That is a reflection of the fact that the world economy is slowing down.
▪ We can not lead the world economy and provide for our citizens with only a business-government partnership.
▪ Time after time, ministers have tried to shift the blame for rising unemployment to the down-turn in the world economy.
▪ Consider the general model of a world economy developed in section 7. 5.
leader
▪ Nor did Mr Clinton need to look very far for a world leader to support him.
▪ No world leader would try to launch a surprise attack because the response would be terminal for his own nation.
▪ Enter J. S. Fraser, considered to be the world leader in the field.
▪ The Chirac-Kohl coolness forms part of a growing pattern of strained personal relations among world leaders.
▪ Mr Cameron's company, Cameron Balloons, is a world leader in its field.
▪ The pursuit of a cease-fire dominated a summit of world leaders in Moscow, meeting to discuss nuclear safety and arms proliferation.
▪ The media tell it whenever they present international relations as a dramatic encounter between world leaders who personify their countries.
▪ We really were world leaders in all respects.
market
▪ The company estimates this at approximately 14 percent of the world market.
▪ While world market prices for sugar rose today, domestic prices fell.
▪ One is the network of the world market and the other is the multinational corporations that operate plants worldwide.
▪ The big six record companies are multinational, and thus can segment the world market into national ones.
▪ For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book.
▪ But far more significant is the up-turn in the world market.
▪ Nor does the industry have to worry about imports or the world market.
▪ Estimates suggest that the annual world market for services exceeds £750 billion.
record
▪ The world record try-scorer rounded on his attacker and exchanged heated words.
▪ Dolan almost broke his own world record.
▪ Not book of world records or world book of records or any of the other things you sometimes hear it called.
trade
▪ This was largely a reflection of Britain's uncompetitiveness in world trade.
▪ Instead of world trade, they fought over whether employers should be allowed to set up their own unions.
▪ Indeed, it is arguable that the different speeds of financial liberalisation are a prime cause of world trade and savings imbalances.
▪ We need world trade agreements which set minimum standards for corporate behaviour, rather than maximum standards for regulation.
▪ The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade.
▪ Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment.
▪ Embattled Mr Major did manage to avert an immediate world trade war.
view
▪ Now she was gaining a whole new world view.
▪ The Republican world view may not have changed in 20 years, but the world certainly has.
▪ It is part of a disturbingly unilateralist world view that extends beyond defence.
▪ There can be no doubting their experience, their confidence, and the classic simplicity of their world view.
▪ This world view in which past and present are simultaneous, constitutes a new understanding of society.
▪ I think that might concentrate his mind wonderfully as to the validity of different world views!
▪ In their efforts to curb immorality purists carefully distanced themselves from a world view totally determined by heredity.
▪ Their world views are so different that we can not treat them as participants in the same world.
war
▪ Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war.
▪ This is how I survive as some one who has come through a revolution and a world war and so on.
▪ The whispering against Bradman increased during the second world war.
▪ The libretto and music, completed in 1928, came from the rambunctious intellectual environment of Paris between the two world wars.
▪ The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war.
▪ Only in 1914 and 1940, during world wars, was the competition canceled.
▪ The storms like the world wars of this century, brought people together.
▪ What came instead were world wars, a Great Depression, a Holocaust, and threats of nuclear destruction.
■ VERB
change
▪ In this, Vargas Llosa defends his most deep and abiding conviction: that literature can change the world.
▪ She had not been much changed by presenting the world with four human beings.
▪ All this points to a sea change in the world of computers and cyberspace.
▪ Man has greatly changed himself as a person in the same period of time by changing the world in which he lives.
▪ They thought they were going to change the world.
▪ For by doing so we can change ourselves and thus change the world around us.
▪ That was what had changed in the world.
live
▪ We live in this world together and how we live together affects the way we live alone.
▪ But where Jane lives now is worlds away from her childhood.
▪ Living in modernity facilitates this belief because we live in a world of rapidly changing fashions and technologies.
▪ And this logic will quickiy mold the culture of humans living in a networked world.
▪ But we don't live in a perfect world.
▪ Many of my classmates came from and lived in a world very different from my own.
▪ We need to be alert to all aspects of our environment if we are to live sanely in the world.
▪ Our grandchildren should not have to live in a world stripped of its natural beauty.
travel
▪ People have always travelled to see the world and to find out how other people live.
▪ As I travel about the world, I keep promising to learn at least one foreign language.
▪ He lived in beautiful houses, travelled the world in the greatest of comfort, and wanted for nothing.
▪ It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown.
▪ Oh, not in the top flight, but he travels around the world - anywhere golf is played.
▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
▪ Mostly, she was off; travelling the world with Mr Gibbon, her constant companion for twenty-nine of those thirty years.
▪ My plans are to travel the entire world with my record.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(it's a) small world
▪ "I graduated from St. John's." "Really? So did my brother. Small world."
God is in his heaven, all's right with the world
I wouldn't miss it for the world
Miss Italy/Ohio/World etc
▪ And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911.
▪ For Marjorie Wallace, the dream came true, a thousand times over, when she won the Miss World crown.
▪ He got on stage at his party with a black Strat and a motley rock crew called Miss World.
▪ Long ago when Dennis Potter was a television critic too, he was reviewing Miss World.
▪ Scandal led to Majorie being stripped of her Miss World title after 104 eventful days.
▪ Though cool Britain might have declared Miss World pass, the world did not agree.
▪ What will happen to the smiling pose of Miss World when she comes down with a cold?
a window on/to the world
▪ Million views Television is a window on the world with a difference.
▪ Television is a window to the world.
▪ The news is also terrific for giving the boys a window on the world.
be dead to the world
▪ I'm sorry I didn't hear the phone -- I must have been dead to the world this morning.
▪ Anyway Amanda was dead to the world.
be worlds/poles apart
▪ But his method of filming and Huston's were worlds apart.
▪ Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
▪ Physically they were almost identical, but psychologically they were worlds apart.
▪ The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
▪ The two feelings were poles apart.
▪ Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
▪ Watching somebody and actually killing them are worlds apart.
▪ You all say that but the truth is, the theory and the practice are worlds apart.
be/live in a dream world
▪ If you think he'll change, you're living in a dream world.
brave new world
▪ In the brave new world of the self-employed, homes should not be confused with offices.
▪ It was a brave new world-but one which, a week later, came crashing down.
▪ Opinion polls and focus groups are Stone Age implements in the brave new world of interactivity just down the communications superhighway.
▪ The ascetic modernists' rejection of history in order to create a visionary brave New World was clearly incompatible with the historic pub.
▪ This brave new world of social engineering produces the opposite of community contact.
▪ This is the brave new world of remote work.
▪ This isn't so much a brave new world, more a retrained version of the old one.
▪ This may sound like the conventional wisdom on the brave new world of short-term, contingent jobs.
in the whole (wide) world
▪ You're my best friend in the whole wide world!
▪ A toast to Bernie-the worst stockbroker in the whole world!
▪ All current affairs in the whole world of lamentable war and strife needed to be weighed in this balance.
▪ And his very best friend in the whole wide world is a rabbit.
▪ I am not responsible for all the smuggling in the whole world.
▪ I thought it was the most beautiful spot in the whole world.
▪ There may be more bacteria in and on you as you read this than there are human beings in the whole world.
▪ There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth.
▪ You are my favourite person in the whole world.
it takes all sorts (to make a world)
it's not the end of the world
▪ If you don't get the job, it's not the end of the world.
▪ All I've done is offend one or two of the wrong people, it's not the end of the world.
▪ It's very upsetting, but it's not the end of the world.
▪ You won't always get it right, but it's not the end of the world if you don't.
move in ... circles/society/world
▪ ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
▪ As if they would move in the same circles.
▪ He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
▪ I thought I could move in the world of all possible lights, and breathe, breathe, breathe.
▪ In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
▪ It was a pleasing thought, that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles.
▪ Tanya insists on moving in many circles and, above all, on thinking for herself.
▪ We move in the same circles.
not long for this world
▪ The old corner drugstore is not long for this world.
on top of the world
▪ After winning the batting title, Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world.
▪ In the spring of 1995, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world.
▪ Noa was on top of the world.
▪ Standing there, on top of the world, my tiredness vanished.
▪ We are just sitting on top of the world.
▪ We were, for a time, on top of the world.
rock sb's world
sb's world/life falls apart
▪ When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
the (big) wide world
▪ Filipe is not alone in the wider world, where 13m children are displaced within their own countries.
▪ Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us, let alone been influenced by our lives.
▪ He knows little about economics or the wider world.
▪ In other words we want to help local enthusiasts to keep in touch with what is happening in the wider world of railways.
▪ Many children of leading ministers took advantage of the wider world their fathers' success had opened for them.
▪ We could certainly be a stronger presence in the wider world.
▪ Wealth and power go hand in hand, at home too, as well as in the big wide world.
the First World
the First World War
the New World
▪ Chili peppers are native to the New World.
the Old World
the best of both worlds
▪ Job-sharing gives me the best of both worlds - I can be with my children and keep my professional status.
▪ All in all, a great place to enjoy the best of both worlds.
▪ An arrangement like this can often be the best of both worlds.
▪ And taking into account the prices of both the ME-6 and ME-10 they really are the best of both worlds.
▪ But if the eye can remain open without being seen, then the prey has the best of both worlds.
▪ Supporters say this type of extended day is the best of both worlds.
▪ This is the best of both worlds.
▪ Used in conjunction with a moisturising conditioner, it will give your lank locks the best of both worlds.
▪ You get the best of both worlds in a job like this: use your strong back and your agile mind.
the four corners of the Earth/world
▪ For centuries, the Spanish traveled to the four corners of the Earth in search of new lands.
▪ Even to the four corners of the world. 38.
▪ He put the Celts at one of the four corners of the world.
▪ People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.
▪ Scholars gathered wisdom and knowledge from the four corners of the world.
the outside world
▪ At the time, the country prevented citizens from having any relations with the outside world.
▪ Many of the prisoners have no contact at all with the outside world.
▪ Since the attack the city has been cut off from the outside world.
▪ Telephone and cable lines link your home office to the outside world.
▪ Hong Kong constitutes a critical economic gateway between the mainland and the outside world.
▪ In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.
▪ It gives us everything from our connection to the outside world to our artistic and intellectual systems.
▪ It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world.
▪ Prisoners' confinement and lack of contact with the outside world compound their problems.
▪ She is not afraid of the outside world, but recognizes its beauty, and therein lies a danger.
▪ Such pets will be fully animated robots, in constant communication with the outside world in order to serve you.
▪ What if the outside world was unaware of what was happening at Heymouth?
the population/public/society/world etc at large
▪ Equally important is how a baby communicates back to caregivers and the world at large.
▪ How then did this concept originate, and why has it received such currency among specialists and the public at large?
▪ However, in spite of that, the availability both here and in Britain should be known to the public at large.
▪ I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
▪ In some societies the boy-preferring habit seems to have spread from elites to the society at large.
▪ The rise of the Internet has taken that idea from offices to the world at large.
▪ They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large, lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
the real world
▪ Experimentalists suggest that randomized assignment is much more possible in the real world than many people suspect.
▪ Going outside would be a shock: I needed some time to decompress before facing the real world.
▪ I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by.
▪ If the Prime Minister thinks that all that adds up to recovery, he is not living in the real world.
▪ In the real world things are more complex.
▪ In the real world, political work goes on whether or not the public takes an interest.
▪ My work is based on things remembered or imagined rather than the real world around me.
▪ This is information that can be used in the real world.
the way of the world
▪ Hugh's lovable plans for the way of the world.
▪ Marty always taking Ernest under wing, telling him the ways of the world, showing him how things worked.
▪ Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.
▪ Talk about a crash course in the ways of the world.
▪ That's the way of the world.
▪ The new crowd of lawyers is a bit more savvy to the ways of the world.
▪ They said this is the way of the world.
▪ Yet you have always chosen the way of the world.
the world is your oyster
▪ After that, the world is your oyster, as they say.
▪ The world is her oyster but she dreams of being a librarian.
think that the world owes you a living
think the world of sb
▪ Sonya thinks the world of you.
▪ And I think the world of the mayor.
▪ Daddy thinks the world of Widick.
▪ He thinks the world of Cam.
▪ I used to think the world of her when she came to stay.
▪ Q My children think the world of their gerbil.
▪ She thinks the world of you, Herb.
▪ She thought the world of him.
▪ Vic thought the world of her.
travel the world/country
▪ Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
▪ By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
▪ For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
▪ He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
▪ I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
▪ We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
twilight world
▪ the twilight world of New York punk clubs
▪ ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
▪ I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen, but in parallel, with everyone else's world.
▪ Terri, in the twilight world of the zombie, was writing the three words over and over again.
▪ The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.
▪ Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.
watch the world go by
▪ In this little village you can still sit in the town café and watch the world go by.
▪ Anonymous, watching the world go by for a moment.
▪ Did Victorine have a favorite cafe from which she watched the world go by?
▪ It's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by.
▪ Or simply relax and watch the world go by.
▪ Plenty have terraces from which to watch the world go by accompanied by a hot waffle or a glass of beer.
▪ The George Street precinct is a great place to pause, enjoy the frequent street entertainment and watch the world go by.
▪ This is not a place to stand and stare, or to sit and watch the world go by.
▪ When we were lads Walton's doorway was where we always used to stand and watch the world go by.
with the best will in the world
▪ And, David, with the best will in the world, you can't teach him.
▪ Even with the best will in the world, we could not do it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alvin's world was full of dance and music.
▪ Heron's book was widely copied in the ancient world.
▪ Jaffrii is now one of the richest and most successful men in the business world.
▪ Our public schools are among the worst in the developed world.
▪ strange creatures from another world
▪ the world of the Anglo-Saxons
▪ the fashion world
▪ the fast-paced world of technology
▪ the fast-paced business world
▪ the Western world
▪ We thought we could change the world then.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I have been blotted out from the world.
▪ She lost any sense of time, knowing only the world of sensation and pleasure and sad longing.
▪ Why here, why Stalinvast, and not some other world?
II.adjectivePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God is in his heaven, all's right with the world
I wouldn't miss it for the world
Miss Italy/Ohio/World etc
▪ And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911.
▪ For Marjorie Wallace, the dream came true, a thousand times over, when she won the Miss World crown.
▪ He got on stage at his party with a black Strat and a motley rock crew called Miss World.
▪ Long ago when Dennis Potter was a television critic too, he was reviewing Miss World.
▪ Scandal led to Majorie being stripped of her Miss World title after 104 eventful days.
▪ Though cool Britain might have declared Miss World pass, the world did not agree.
▪ What will happen to the smiling pose of Miss World when she comes down with a cold?
a window on/to the world
▪ Million views Television is a window on the world with a difference.
▪ Television is a window to the world.
▪ The news is also terrific for giving the boys a window on the world.
be worlds/poles apart
▪ But his method of filming and Huston's were worlds apart.
▪ Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
▪ Physically they were almost identical, but psychologically they were worlds apart.
▪ The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
▪ The two feelings were poles apart.
▪ Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
▪ Watching somebody and actually killing them are worlds apart.
▪ You all say that but the truth is, the theory and the practice are worlds apart.
be/live in a dream world
▪ If you think he'll change, you're living in a dream world.
it takes all sorts (to make a world)
it's not the end of the world
▪ If you don't get the job, it's not the end of the world.
▪ All I've done is offend one or two of the wrong people, it's not the end of the world.
▪ It's very upsetting, but it's not the end of the world.
▪ You won't always get it right, but it's not the end of the world if you don't.
move in ... circles/society/world
▪ ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
▪ As if they would move in the same circles.
▪ He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
▪ I thought I could move in the world of all possible lights, and breathe, breathe, breathe.
▪ In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
▪ It was a pleasing thought, that I might soon be moving in more exalted circles.
▪ Tanya insists on moving in many circles and, above all, on thinking for herself.
▪ We move in the same circles.
on top of the world
▪ After winning the batting title, Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world.
▪ In the spring of 1995, Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell appeared to be on top of the world.
▪ Noa was on top of the world.
▪ Standing there, on top of the world, my tiredness vanished.
▪ We are just sitting on top of the world.
▪ We were, for a time, on top of the world.
rock sb's world
sb's world/life falls apart
▪ When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
the First World
the First World War
the New World
▪ Chili peppers are native to the New World.
the Old World
the best of both worlds
▪ Job-sharing gives me the best of both worlds - I can be with my children and keep my professional status.
▪ All in all, a great place to enjoy the best of both worlds.
▪ An arrangement like this can often be the best of both worlds.
▪ And taking into account the prices of both the ME-6 and ME-10 they really are the best of both worlds.
▪ But if the eye can remain open without being seen, then the prey has the best of both worlds.
▪ Supporters say this type of extended day is the best of both worlds.
▪ This is the best of both worlds.
▪ Used in conjunction with a moisturising conditioner, it will give your lank locks the best of both worlds.
▪ You get the best of both worlds in a job like this: use your strong back and your agile mind.
the four corners of the Earth/world
▪ For centuries, the Spanish traveled to the four corners of the Earth in search of new lands.
▪ Even to the four corners of the world. 38.
▪ He put the Celts at one of the four corners of the world.
▪ People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.
▪ Scholars gathered wisdom and knowledge from the four corners of the world.
the way of the world
▪ Hugh's lovable plans for the way of the world.
▪ Marty always taking Ernest under wing, telling him the ways of the world, showing him how things worked.
▪ Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next.
▪ Talk about a crash course in the ways of the world.
▪ That's the way of the world.
▪ The new crowd of lawyers is a bit more savvy to the ways of the world.
▪ They said this is the way of the world.
▪ Yet you have always chosen the way of the world.
the world is your oyster
▪ After that, the world is your oyster, as they say.
▪ The world is her oyster but she dreams of being a librarian.
think that the world owes you a living
think the world of sb
▪ Sonya thinks the world of you.
▪ And I think the world of the mayor.
▪ Daddy thinks the world of Widick.
▪ He thinks the world of Cam.
▪ I used to think the world of her when she came to stay.
▪ Q My children think the world of their gerbil.
▪ She thinks the world of you, Herb.
▪ She thought the world of him.
▪ Vic thought the world of her.
travel the world/country
▪ Although he is the son of a Cork cattle dealer, he spent his first few years after school travelling the world.
▪ By the time she returned from travelling the world, she was in her mid-twenties.
▪ For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
▪ He travels the country conducting workshops and has published eight pieces of Classical music for students.
▪ I used to travel the world for a medium-sized Midwestern bank with five billion dollars in assets.
▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.
▪ We travel the world with our gym bags and prayer rugs, unrolling them in the transit lounges.
twilight world
▪ the twilight world of New York punk clubs
▪ ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.
▪ I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen, but in parallel, with everyone else's world.
▪ Terri, in the twilight world of the zombie, was writing the three words over and over again.
▪ The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.
▪ Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.
watch the world go by
▪ In this little village you can still sit in the town café and watch the world go by.
▪ Anonymous, watching the world go by for a moment.
▪ Did Victorine have a favorite cafe from which she watched the world go by?
▪ It's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by.
▪ Or simply relax and watch the world go by.
▪ Plenty have terraces from which to watch the world go by accompanied by a hot waffle or a glass of beer.
▪ The George Street precinct is a great place to pause, enjoy the frequent street entertainment and watch the world go by.
▪ This is not a place to stand and stare, or to sit and watch the world go by.
▪ When we were lads Walton's doorway was where we always used to stand and watch the world go by.
with the best will in the world
▪ And, David, with the best will in the world, you can't teach him.
▪ Even with the best will in the world, we could not do it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At that time Britain was a major world power.
▪ Islam is one of the great world religions.
▪ Jones is a world expert in genetics.
▪ The Denver Broncos have won the world championship.
▪ The ice skating show features twelve Olympic and world champions.
▪ The present conflict is a threat to world peace.
▪ The top 50 multi-national companies control about 80% of world trade.