Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] 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 people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 3 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 4 | The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The roaring of the American boom rang round the Western world where everyone in every hard-pressed country saw the new world as an Aladdin 's cave of American goods , American entertainment and the American style of living . |
| 9 | There are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the Elves returned to the Old World in strength , trade between the two realms grew once more . |
| 12 | Their lives lay with the capitalist world he had hated so bitterly in his own youth . |
| 13 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sketch of a reusable coffin from a short story by Ludwig Bemelmans published during the Second World War . |
| 16 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 17 | In October , Water & Ventilation in Salisbury ventured into the unknown world of telecanvassing . |
| 18 | The strongest objection to the Waldheim-Kohl meeting came from the Jewish World Congress , whose director , Elan Steinberg , accused the Chancellor of being ‘ morally thick-skinned ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 21 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 22 | He had looked at the children 's modelling and their puzzling drawings of oversized objects — single , primary colours and minute figures dwarfed by the chaotic world around them . |
| 23 | Afforestation began between the two World Wars to provide Britain with home-grown wood , particularly for pit props ; used in the trenches . |
| 24 | There were close Manchester links , Morrissey and Gedge wrote about the real world ( in very different styles ) and the basic mental line-up was virtually the same . |
| 25 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 26 | These villagers lived alongside the modern world , the developed complex of Monte Samana , and the growing beach hotels and windsurfing bases that were sprouting by the week along the seafront . |
| 27 | It was also the place where news came from the outside world either by telegraph — provided on the railways long before post offices began transmitting telegrams — or by newspaper or word of mouth . |
| 28 | To put this in another way , before democracy came in the Western world there came the society and the politics of choice , the society and politics of competition , the society and politics of the market . |
| 29 | When the colonists returned from the New World they found their homeland drowned and their kinsmen dead . |
| 30 | Both belong to what Geoffrey Thurley diagnosed as the sealed world of French rationalism ; the difficulty of convincingly transplanting such forms of intellectual discourse from a French to an English context remains formidable . |