Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 2 | During the Second World War a similar problem arose with regard to the publication of Alexander Ratcliffe 's Truth about the Jews , brought out by the British Protestant League . |
| 3 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 4 | During the second world war the plant kept 19,000 people busy ( assembling , among other things , Barnes Wallis 's bouncing bombs for the dam-busters ) . |
| 5 | A paediatrician 's son , Harry Neubauer was born in 1932 at Karlsbad , Germany , but during the Second World War the family found refuge in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 6 | During the Second World War the island was invaded by the Axis powers and , after Marshal Badoglio 's armistice with the Allies in September 1943 , thousands of Italians were killed and captured by the Germans . |
| 7 | During the Second World War the house was empty until taken by an elderly lady , Mrs Fullerton , whose son was grown up . |
| 8 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 9 | During the Second World War the Germans used coal gasification to make syn-gas which was then used to make oil in a process developed by two chemists named Fischer and Tropsch . |
| 10 | The race continued throughout the war years , though during the Second World War the distance was cut to fifteen miles . |
| 11 | During the Second World War the house and many other parts of the village were requisitioned . |
| 12 | During the Second world War the centre span of the old swing bridge was removed by the Royal Engineers so that they could practise making Bailey bridges against the tide . |
| 13 | During the Second World War the Portuguese Government tried to insist that only neutral ships be used , but this was often ignored . |
| 14 | His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being . |
| 15 | During the Second World War the whole economic effort centred on supplying and employing sufficient quantities of labour and materials . |
| 16 | When during the Second World War the German occupiers deported the entire Danish police force for several months , recorded rates of theft and robbery ( though not of sexual offences ) rose spectacularly ( Chris-tiansen , 1975 ; Beyleveld , 1990 : 159 ) . |
| 17 | During the Second World War the capitalist allies worked together with Communist Russia without either side altering its views and without much real communication . |
| 18 | During the Second World War the ship was used as a barracks . |
| 19 | During the Second World War the headquarters of the Western Approaches Command was located on Merseyside . |
| 20 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 21 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 22 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 23 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 24 | From then until the suspension of elections during the first world war the Labour Party ( as it now was ) and Municipal Alliance fought with roughly equal strength for municipal control , and indirectly for parliamentary seats , although for most of the time the Alliance retained power . |
| 25 | During the last ice age the lowering of the seas allowed rivers to deepen their valleys and the modern seas have invaded these valleys to give flooded plains of brackish water . |
| 26 | C Palace 2 , Everton 0 A DUBIOUS offside decision midway through the second half kick-started an uninspiring game into life and brought about Everton 's downfall , writes Mark Redding . |
| 27 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 28 | Just after the Second World War a film crew made a documentary about life in rural England . |
| 29 | Shortly after the Second World War the typical advice given concerning this condition was : " Acute coronary thrombosis must be regarded more seriously than most cardiac conditions , a rest in bed for weeks or months , with a minimum of 4 weeks , should be prescribed in order to assure as sound a healing of the myocardial infarct as possible . " |
| 30 | In the period of expansion of the Inspectorate after the Second World War the tasks diversified and regular formal visiting declined ; in 1968 the Select Committee on Education and Science recognised this shift . |