Example sentences of "[prep] world [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 2 | After World War II the Crown in Parliament of the United Kingdom well understood that it could no longer govern the King Emperor 's non-British , any more than his British subjects who were not represented , and could not be represented , in Parliament . |
| 3 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 4 | These dramatic increases in production intensified during or after World War Two : in Nigeria groundnut production tripled between 1938 and 1948 ; in Uganda coffee production also tripled in the 1950s ; in Zaire there were 800,000 cotton growers by 1950 . |
| 5 | The ideas of Anton Pannekoek which emerged with the publication of his Workers ' Council after World War One provided a ready-made model of a non-hierarchical political system . |
| 6 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 7 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 8 | But the large-scale manufacture of plastics after World War 11 encouraged FAO to sponsor the development of cheap , large , plastic nets , which were originally intended to help provide additional sources of protein for developing countries . |
| 9 | After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel . |
| 10 | Following the rebuilding after World War II one last ring was created , not set on the line of an ancient set of bulwarks , but designed with the future in mind . |
| 11 | Such was the value of scrap metal after World War Two . |
| 12 | The style of discovery changed after World War II . |
| 13 | Until well after World War II , margarine ran a poor second to butter in both sales and esteem . |
| 14 | A Dangerous Man — Lawrence After Arabia looks at the maverick hero not on the battlefield but in London and Paris after World War I. |
| 15 | ( The conservatory at Chatsworth was sadly demolished after World War I but many of Paxton 's improvements still remain to be seen ) . |
| 16 | Sulphur emissions from coal-fired power stations shot up after World War II due to growing energy demands , and reached a peak in the 1970s . |
| 17 | After World War II , the motor car had a significant impact on the travelling public , and lorries and buses took a considerable amount of business from the railway , so it was inevitable that the railway management , casting a critical eye over branch line expenditure , however scenic , considered most of these rural lines as financially unviable . |
| 18 | Just after World War II he bought a large mansion ‘ on the Plain' and restored it to its prior magnificent glory and settled down to enjoy his wealth . |
| 19 | The Japanese began shipping beaded belts to the US soon after World War II . |
| 20 | Part of the Semper wing of the Zwinger palace , the historic collection was known as the ‘ Rustkammer ’ ( armoury ) from the sixteenth century but renamed the ‘ Historisches Museum ’ after World War II . |
| 21 | A Bolivian , born in Paris into the Ortiz-Patino family who made their fortune in tin mining in South America after World War I , Ortiz has been resident in Geneva for the last twenty-five years . |
| 22 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 23 | £5.95 During and after World War II Count Antoine Seilern , the Courtauld Institute 's major benefactor , assembled a collection of the work of Oskar Kokoschka . |
| 24 | Two volumes of collected essays by Clement Greenberg document the critic 's emergence as the most influential champion of modernism during its American ascendance after World War II : volume 3 of The Collected Essays and Criticism is titled Affirmations and Refusals , 1950–56 , volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance , 1957–1969 ( each £23.95 , $29.95 ) . |
| 25 | In West Germany , on the other hand , there has been greater emphasis by unions upon legislative enactment to further their general objectives since , historically , the unions accepted the republic created after World War I as being ‘ their ’ state and consequently pressed for government legislation in the social and labour field ( Günter and Leminsky , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | We may also note that with the reconstruction of the German trade unions after World War II , following their demise under the Nazi regime , the DGB was founded as a unitary organisation to include members of all occupations and political persuasions . |
| 27 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |
| 28 | With the advent of such legislation after World War I the creation of a central employers ' association fulfilled the need for an authoritative spokesman to represent employer interests before the legislature . |
| 29 | The emergence of the enterprise union form of organisation after World War II , and the importance attaching to its role in the industrial relations system , has its economic basis in the practice of lifetime employment for key employees . |
| 30 | France , by contrast , had a smaller manufacturing base but remained self-sufficient in food so that the dramatic fall of proportion of workers in primary industries did not occur until after World War II ( fig. 1.8 ) . |