Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [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 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 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 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sketch of a reusable coffin from a short story by Ludwig Bemelmans published during the Second World War . |
| 9 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 12 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It came into being to respond to two needs , a scientific need for machines more powerful than could be afforded by any single nation in a Europe devastated by the second world war , and the political need for institutions to unite that fragmented continent . |
| 15 | Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 18 | The ensuing entente between the government and political India lasted until the First World War . |
| 19 | But what is particularly interesting in the context of what his house became in the Second World War — and indeed what it is today , a Post Office Engineering Training establishment — was his financial interest in the Anglo-American Telegraph Company . |
| 20 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 21 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 22 | Firms can easily dissipate their first-mover advantages , as Henry Ford did after the first world war by sacking many of his best senior managers . |