Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 2 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 3 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 4 | The net result has been a marked resurgence of the disease in many parts of the world to what some people , including the famous American malariologist Paul Russel , consider to be levels that existed before the Second World War . |
| 5 | He certainly had a Herculean task to maintain any consistency of policy among an immensely disparate collection of politicians , constituting , I think , one of the most brilliant Cabinets of our time , short of the Cabinet that served after the Second World War . |
| 6 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 7 | Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ . |
| 8 | Indeed , a striking and major aspect of the final volumes of À la Recherche is their often cruel analysis of the moral bankruptcy and social collapse of this salon world , during the years that culminated in the First World War . |
| 9 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 10 | One postcard from Shanghai to Scotland , illustrating the railway station and posted before the First World War , bears the message ‘ is not the station like that at Fort Matilda ? ’ |
| 11 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 12 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 13 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 14 | And I 'm going to talk about , and make do and mend in the second world war . |
| 15 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 16 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 17 | Asked in interviews about his parents , Crawford tells the story of his RAF sergeant-pilot father who was shot down and killed during the Second World War , before his birth . |
| 18 | Modern methods of super-exploitation , tried and tested in the Third World , are coming home to industrialized countries . |
| 19 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 20 | Also on June 21 both the Bundestag and the Volkskammer approved a resolution recognizing the inviolability of Poland 's borders as established after the Second World War and guaranteeing the Oder-Neisse border with Poland as the eastern border of a future united Germany . |