Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 2 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 3 | Er , he was in the ambulance corp , I think in the First World War , but he was a redback . |
| 4 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 5 | The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can . |
| 6 | But how should we evaluate the cold war 's impact on the world outside Europe and North America — on the world which emerged from the second world war still largely in the condition of colonialism ? |
| 7 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 8 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 9 | By the end of the decade , well over half of those who qualify for assistance will be aged over 80 , mainly those who served in the Second World War or their widows . |
| 10 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 11 | It 's very sad as the Squadron has strong associations with pilots who flew in the Second World War . |
| 12 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 13 | The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War . |
| 14 | Erected in 1919 , it has an addendum for those who died in the Second World War . |
| 15 | We 're talking about the people who died in the first world war . |
| 16 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 17 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , who wrote beyond the First World War of ancestral houses in the 1890s , the setting of her own childhood , once declared that ‘ when an age is finished you see it as it is ’ . |
| 18 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 20 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 21 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 22 | But the practical components of the curriculum , whether in the medieval university or in courses of professional education as they developed after the Second World War , have been subsidiary elements in a much wider programme of studies ; and they have an internal connection with the general programme of theoretical studies . |
| 23 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 24 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 25 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 26 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |
| 27 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 28 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 29 | So what happened during the second world war ? |
| 30 | Well , but what happened during the Second World War when all these children were undergoing much more traumatic experiences then ? |