Example sentences of "end [prep] the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 2 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |
| 3 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 4 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 5 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 6 | Following the end of the First World War , the leading question in the mining industry was whether or not the state would return the coal mines to their pre-war owners . |
| 7 | By the end of the First World War Binding had logged more than 3,000 airship hours and established himself as one of the most experienced and , as his service record stated , ‘ capable airship engineers . ’ |
| 8 | Towards the end of the First World War , Lord Leverhulme , the Lancashire businessman who created Unilever , bought the Island of Lewis to develop it . |
| 9 | With the end of the First World War , the Germans left , but did not remove their client State . |
| 10 | All fees were abolished — they had gone from elementary schools in 1918 , at the end of the First World War , and now parents in Cardiff would not have to pay ten guineas per annum for access to Blake and Donne . |
| 11 | Blackpool has only once bought second-hand trams , and then in an emergency at the end of the First World War . |
| 12 | The lack of a proper repair works was keenly felt at the end of the First World War , when the fleet was very run-down . |
| 13 | The storm clouds gathering over Leeds City broke almost a year after the end of the First World War . |
| 14 | Echoing this anxiety over the future of democracy at the end of the First World War , another government inspector wrote of the need to keep working-class youth ‘ in touch with ‘ the forces of civilisation ’ , for it was necessary always to keep in mind that ‘ we are training a whole social class ’ . |
| 15 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 16 | Rituals have always been more colourful in ‘ Catholic ’ countries than Protestant ones , but many Protestant rites survived until the end of the First World War . |
| 17 | In his classic monetarist analysis of inflation published just after the end of the First World War , J.M. Keynes wrote : |
| 18 | In 1944 the Labour Party , in sharp contrast to its statements at the end of the First World War , declared : ‘ It is better to have too much armed force than too little . ’ |
| 19 | Based on a ten year study the report shows remaining areas of woodland and those lost since the end of the First World War . |
| 20 | Another book claimed that by the end of the First World War much of the old prejudice against women having an equal place with men in society had gone . |
| 21 | In discussing the rise of fascism in Germany , for example , Poulantzas claims that , ‘ With the end of the First World War , a genuinely revolutionary period opened in Germany and Italy . |
| 22 | For special advice on this subject AIB turns to Roger Green of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough , where such things have been studied since the end of the First World War . |
| 23 | Freud fails to mention explicitly the way in which nationalism may exhibit these characteristics too , even though he was writing just after the end of the First World War . |
| 24 | The end of this demographic spike ( smaller than that which followed the end of the First World War ) brought a renewal of anxiety , expressed in the Royal Commission 's Report ( 1949 ) , lest renewed low fertility should revive the threat of population decline . |
| 25 | From the end of the First World War a body claiming to be the Korean government in exile functioned at Shanghai and afterwards , during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 , at Chungking . |
| 26 | Treaties for the protection of minority peoples at the end of the First World War provide obvious examples . |
| 27 | Until the end of the First World War the North East experienced massive population growth through immigration . |
| 28 | There were attempts to abolish the butty system in Nottinghamshire around the end of the First World War ( i.e. before the opening-up of the Dukeries field ) , as part of a programme to improve working conditions ( Griffin , 1962 , p. 39 ) . |
| 29 | The economic prosperity of the 1920s , and the docility of an increasingly impoverished labour movement , systematically ignored by successive governments since the end of the First World War , had created an all-pervading illusion of economic prosperity and political stability . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |