Example sentences of "[prep] [art] second [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 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 22 | Just after the Second World War a film crew made a documentary about life in rural England . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After the Second World War the coverage of the needs of the disabled became fairly comprehensive in scope , although there was no attempt to set up a single department or authority to be responsible for their needs . |
| 26 | In the first 25 years after the Second World War the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic theory and policy came to dominate academic and governmental thinking in most Western economies . |
| 27 | Although it is difficult to assess its importance , on the eve of the second reading debate a letter appeared in The Times , signed by eight peers , including Lord Devlin . |
| 28 | Immediately following the nationalisation of the coal-mines in Britain at the end of the Second World War a team of social scientists from the Tavistock Institute in London began an extensive series of studies of work organisation in that industry . |
| 29 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |
| 30 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |