Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.

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1 This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) .
2 In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them .
3 For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan .
4 The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War .
5 The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War .
6 The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 .
7 The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland .
8 Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War .
9 It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) .
10 Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season .
11 Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War .
12 Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 .
13 He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done .
14 Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War .
15 The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War .
16 José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War .
17 The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young .
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