Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] in the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreams of Arab nationalism raised by the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in the First World War , and then turned instead into the reality of separate states , clearly supervised by the two major European victors . |
| 2 | Reminiscences of the trenches in the First World War or Stockton-upon-Tees in the twenties and thirties ( his favourite standbys ) did not fit the occasion . |
| 3 | He missed death in the trenches in the First World War , had a daughter who died young , and he was now in hospital separated from his wife . |
| 4 | Tolkien 's epic is more like a romantic reflection of pre-1914 British life and of those models of manly virtue he had once witnessed and cherished , it seems likely , in the grim camaraderie of the trenches in the First World War . |
| 5 | Of course , people might point to the generals in the First World War and say , rightly , that they were a bunch of ancient Blimps . |
| 6 | COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second . |