Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 2 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 3 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 4 | ENGLAND gave Chile their hardest match so far in the third World Limited Handicap Championship at the St Cristobal Polo Club in Santiago , Chile , but lost 6–4 in the semi-final . |
| 5 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 6 | And it is not only in the Third World that people shy away from permanent sterility . |
| 7 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 8 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 9 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 10 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 11 | That was not long after the Second World War broke out . |
| 12 | May I correct Mr MacLaren on one small historical point where he states that ‘ the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War ’ ? |
| 13 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 14 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |
| 15 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | His fight is not just for the Third World , but for North America and Europe as well . |
| 17 | And not just in the Third World . |
| 18 | The same basic principles apply everywhere , not just in the Third World . |
| 19 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 20 | The number of reported cattle thefts increased still further during the Second World War , when food prices increased dramatically . |
| 21 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 22 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 23 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 24 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 25 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 26 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 27 | At Easter 1939 , with Europe once more in the grip of events leading remorselessly up to the Second World War , Leeds Deaf F.C . |
| 28 | Elaborate funerary rites , strenuously promoted by the emergent trade of the undertakers , ensured that the social pretensions of the middle-class would extend as far into the next world as money could take them . |
| 29 | Transnational capitalist classes do not identify with any foreign country in particular , or even necessarily with the First World , or the white world , or the Western world . |
| 30 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |