Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] before the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 2 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 3 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 4 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 5 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 6 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |
| 7 | This military model of the disciplined body , responding instantly to word of command , remained paramount in the years before the First War . |
| 8 | It was the changed set of political and social conditions in the years before the First War which paved the way for the re-emergence of an alliance between medics , natural scientists and the established church . |
| 9 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |
| 10 | I had asked Chris to be President of the Friends before the first meeting . |