Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 2 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 3 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 4 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 5 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 6 | erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million . |
| 7 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 8 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 9 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 10 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 11 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 12 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 13 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 14 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 15 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 16 | When in 1939 a repetition of the conditions encountered during the First World War once more led the government to intervene in agriculture then the conditions were also created for a renewed round of trade union growth . |
| 17 | British fascism originated in several distinct and contradictory reaction to the long-term decline of Britain and the dislocation caused by the First World War . |
| 18 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 19 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 20 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 21 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 22 | The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War . |
| 23 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 24 | The play is based on David Jones 's book — an epic poem centred on the First World War but bringing in Welsh military history and mythological references from Roman times . |
| 25 | But the kindergarten 's fervour for imperial federation declined during the First World War , when the strength of dominion nationalism became apparent , and they moved towards more informal notions of imperial co-operation . |
| 26 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 27 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 28 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 29 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 30 | Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled . |