Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 2 | In one data disk on the First World War , for instance , pupils were able to access an official report of an attack , an entry in a private diary and also to see how a newspaper reported the incident . |
| 3 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 4 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 5 | A Thirties scene with modern streamlined cars passing the massive war memorial constructed with the profits from shell-making by the Tramways Department in the First World War . |
| 6 | Coun Edward Turner , of Middlesbrough , who had been Meet President two years earlier , had the idea of raising £1,000 to equip the voluntary training corps — the home guard of the First World War . |
| 7 | ONE of the most graphic accounts of the horrors and practicalities of war to be published in recent years is The Imperial War Museum Book of The First World War . |
| 8 | The broadsheet idea , or at least the name , was borrowed by The Times newspaper in the First World War , when it organised the printing and distribution of literary extracts , reminiscent of home , for the comfort of the troops . |
| 9 | When Norman went to serve with the East Riding Yeomanry during the First World War , reaching the rank of captain , she worked from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. as a VAD at the Red Cross Hospital in Richmond , travelling each day by pony and trap or bicycle , carrying a fresh egg from one of the Field farms . |
| 10 | SIR — Details of the mysterious respiratory illness mentioned by Nelson ( June 12 , p 1526 ) among Navajo Indians are at present sparse , but the symptoms are reminiscent of those described early in the course of an ‘ acute nephritis ’ which occurred with trench warfare in the First World War . |
| 11 | London 's insurance and commodity markets , the inheritance of a century of British imperial and trade dominance before the First World War , remained the most truly international of their kind . |
| 12 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
| 13 | Only in the United States and in Britain was there no element of state control by the First World War . |
| 14 | Similar currents flowed strongly through the ideology and programmes of the French union movement after the First World War ( Dubois 1975 : ch. 3 ) . |
| 15 | East Germany shows a sharp fall in the birth rate during the First World War and after the Second and the effect of the Second World War on the males of fighting age . |
| 16 | With such beliefs the Society proved receptive to both the nativist anti-semitic tradition which had been focused on the anti-alien campaign in the East End of London between 1900 and 1905 , to the Marconi scandal before the First World War , and to international influences such as the White Russian anti-semitic propaganda directed at the Bolsheviks after 1918 . |
| 17 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 18 | Was there utility clothing during the First World War ? |
| 19 | The principle significance of the first World War will be examined here through an analysis of these three individuals . |
| 20 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 21 | I AM writing a book on the history of the famous cricket team , The Invalids , founded by Sir John Squire after the First World War , which provided the original of the team of literary gents in A.G. Macdonell 's novel England , Their England . |
| 22 | He worked on the family farm before the First World War ; enlisted in the army and became a captain ; and after the war sank his savings into a clothing store , and lost them when it failed . |