Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] during [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 4 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 5 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |
| 6 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 7 | His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters . |
| 8 | Sketch of a reusable coffin from a short story by Ludwig Bemelmans published during the Second World War . |
| 9 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 10 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 11 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 12 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 15 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 16 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | The light blue on red title , with unit number , and the curved ends associated during the Second World War with Guards regiments , apparently dates from 1940 when 26 Eng . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The fact is , Superintendent , I wrote a rather successful book set during the Second World War . |
| 22 | On Sunday 10th November it fell once again to Sir Alan Sykes to unveil the War Memorial , now containing the sixty additional names of Old Stopfordians killed during the Second World War . |
| 23 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |