Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOMB DISPOSAL specialists were yesterday called out to beaches on the south-west coast of Scotland after Second World War phosphorus canisters believed to be from an undersea dump were washed ashore . |
| 2 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 3 | The £300,000 extension providing an extra eight rooms at the home in Prenton Road West , is named after First World War hero Frank Murphy who died on the battlefield at Ypres . |
| 4 | Today 's price for run-of-the-mill First World War grips is £7-£15 and for Second World War £3-£8 . |
| 5 | New warnings for Second World Climate conference |
| 6 | The 23-year-old played Calypso in Channel 4 's steamy story set during Second World War . |
| 7 | After a fly past by a RAF VC 10 , divisional officers from fire brigades all over the country unveiled a plaque in memory of the airmen who died during second world war . |
| 8 | They were called Bevin Boys and during second world war their front line was the not a battlefield , but a coalface . |
| 9 | A third of its 1,800 main battle tanks are of Second World War vintage , and most of the remainder date from the 1950s . |
| 10 | INDEPENDENT and major revivals of Second World War gasifier technology are under way on opposite sides of the world . |
| 11 | THE sons of Second World War foes Montgomery and Rommel stood together in friendship yesterday . |
| 12 | This reticence is all the more striking when contrasted with the plethora of Second World War movies made both during the war and for many years afterwards . |
| 13 | They also pointed to what they claimed were morale-boosting concessions by the Soviet leadership to the armed forces , notably the promotion of Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov to the rank of Marshal on April 28 , and the holding of a big military parade in Red Square on May 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe . |
| 14 | Die Welt of Dec. 22 reported that France had raised the question of the payment of Second World War reparations to French nationals by Germany during the two-plus-four talks on German unification . |
| 15 | Although the conclusions of the seven-year inquiry dismissed claims of active US complicity in Mengele 's escape , they acknowledged that Mengele had been in US custody for at least six weeks after the end of Second World War before being routinely released . |
| 16 | Bomb disposal experts have carried out a series of controlled explosions on a store of Second World War weapons and ammunition . |
| 17 | And with thousands of Second World War veterans now in their seventies , the demands on the fund have never been greater . |
| 18 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 19 | Fifty years after er the end of second world war , it 's too early to speak that this history should n't have any more influence on German politics . |
| 20 | As a revolutionary writer Nizan was confronted by what he perceived as a series of particularly acute technical problems which had their origin in the specific historical situation of post-First World War France . |
| 21 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 22 | The recreation hall is another building used by various organisations , renovated over the years from a building of First World War days ; it also houses a twice weekly library . |
| 23 | ( e ) Impact of First World War , e.g. political split in Liberals , attack on Liberal values . |
| 24 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 25 | The way out of the crisis , in my view , is to refocus our attention away from state-centrist ideas of First World countries exploiting Third World countries , to the analysis of the global system . |
| 26 | It 's one of the finest collections of first world war aeroplanes in existence , and it 's going on show to give people a little taste of that old movie magic . |
| 27 | And the minister asked him , what is the Church 's attitude towards Third World debts ? |
| 28 | The conference was also told about an invention which could curb kidnapping and the illicit sale of Third World babies for adoption . |
| 29 | Hyam also deplores the recent ‘ willingness of Third World governments to adopt the peculiar Purity laws and conventions of Britain in the 1880s as if they represented ultimate truths about human civilisation ’ . |
| 30 | She has launched a number of Third World projects , which she often discovers during her two months abroad each year . |