Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 3 | Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . |
| 4 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 5 | The emancipation of women , the unsettling social effect of the First World War and some increase in education for the majority of the population all made for revision of opinions and attitudes , towards sex as towards other matters . |
| 6 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 7 | Few countries outside the First World have transferable currencies . |
| 8 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 9 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 11 | The relevant situation of utterance can therefore be identified as the historical period of the First World War , in which the poem was actually composed and first received by its contemporary readers . |
| 12 | It linked Louth with the Humber estuary , and was used for commercial traffic until the First World War . |
| 13 | Glory is about the class divisions in the French army during the First World War . |
| 14 | ‘ The danger is that our military could develop the syndrome of the German army after the first world war . ’ |
| 15 | In the half century before the First World War , investors residing in Scotland appear to have made an increasingly important contribution to Britain 's position as the world 's leading capital-exporting nation . |
| 16 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 17 | True enough , the famous set of Roman values — fides , constantia , severitas , gravitas , dignitas , auctoritas , etc. etc. — was discovered for the first time by German professors during the First World War , and helped their pupils to mark time while Hitler was deciding what to do with the classics . |
| 18 | Its immediate origins have to be seen mainly as an ultra-conservative response to the social consequences of the first World War . |
| 19 | The report said army intelligence officers started spying on black Americans out of fears they were susceptible to being influenced by German agents in the First World War , then by Communist and Japanese agents and opponents of the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | [ The Times , 14 November 1924 ; Catherine Cline , E. D. Morel 1873–192 4 : the Strategies of Protest , 1980 ; F. Seymour Cocks , E. D. Morel , the Man and his Work , 1920 ; Marvin Swartz , The Union of Democratic Control in British Politics During the First World War , 1971 . ] |
| 21 | It has been proposed by several workers that trench nephritis was caused by hantavirus , although the classic descriptions from the First World War do not tally closely with the variants of hantavirus infection that have been described in the past 40 years . |
| 22 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 23 | A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’ |
| 24 | In 1927 and 1928 , therefore , were planted the seeds of a cultural conflict between a first generation of intellectuals who had , like Barbusse , joined the party as a reaction to the sickening personal experiences of the First World War and who were above all else humanist and pacifist , and a younger second generation of Surrealists and Marxists who were more in tune with the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow . |
| 25 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 26 | The National Birthrate Commission during the First World War noted that many doctors were advising women to space their births but refusing to tell them how . |
| 27 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 28 | Foundations were laid for a rivalry between the two countries which was to be one of the principal causes of the First World War . |
| 29 | The immediate roots of British fascism thus grew from those who tried to ignore the real consequences of the first World War . |
| 30 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |