Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [art] [num ord] 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 | The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
7 | It is significant that the states defeated in the second world war , on which a higher degree of devolution was imposed — presumably in reaction against fascist centralisation — lack most of the separatist movements of the rest of Western Europe , though on paper Bavaria and Sicily are at least as obvious breeding- grounds for such movements as Scotland and the francophone parts of the Bernese Jura . |
8 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
9 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
10 | Both powers know that the unappealing alternative is a return to the 1970s and 1980s , when America and Russia competed in the third world through warring clients . |
11 | As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada . |
12 | 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 . |
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 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
15 | Only the winner and the runner-up in Asia will get the chance to play in the next World Cup preliminaries . |
16 | Relatives of an R-A-F bomber crew killed in the Second World War have flown to Russia for a memorial service . |
17 | Development planning in the third world is a team exercise . |
18 | Yesterday Lis , North Wales area secretary for Christian Aid , was giving her backing to a major campaign to promote better understanding of the problems faced by people living in the Third World . |
19 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
20 | 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 ) . |
21 | Although most of the great churches and cathedrals of this area suffered greatly from damage inflicted in the Second World War , the region still possesses some impressive examples of German Romanesque architecture . |
22 | The damage caused in the Second World War has been repaired on the exterior , which now looks well . |
23 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
24 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
25 | ‘ I think it is correct that the world champions play in the Third World as often as possible , ’ he said . |
26 | 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 ’ . |
27 | According to United Nations studies ( see Fath , 1985 ) , in the 1970s less than one-third of the food consumed in the Third World was processed . |
28 | Two other famous examples suffered in the Second World War . |
29 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
30 | On March 2 , 1990 , the Soviet Union declared its intention to pay Switzerland a lump sum of SFr5,750 million in compensation for Swiss property seized in the Second World War . |