Example sentences of "[be] [verb] after the second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 3 | The growing demand for cross-Channel travel , reflected in the establishment of the Dover-Dunkirk train ferry service in 1936 , ensured that the issue would be revived after the Second World War and Anglo-French meetings were held as early as 1947 . |
| 4 | French restrictions on an African press were lifted after the Second World War , and between 1945 and independence in 1960 thirty-six newspapers emerged and disappeared in Abidjan alone . |
| 5 | A cap badge with the Guildford arms was continued in bi-metal form after 1902 with the King 's Crown ; the only radical variation being made after the Second World War when a beret badge of about ⅔rd size was introduced . |
| 6 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
| 7 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 8 | Born in Austria , he had been imprisoned after the Second World War but escaped to Argentina , where he was granted Argentinian citizenship . |
| 9 | They were situated in Coniscliffe Road ( extant ) , Northgate , North Road ( both disappeared since the Fifties ) , near the gateway to the East Mount mansion in Haughton Road ( disappeared when East Mount was demolished after the Second World War ) , and two at either end of the Bank Top Cut ( vanished when the cut was widened in the 1930s ) . |
| 10 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 11 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 12 | Genetic screening , a legacy of the eugenics movement , was invented after the second world war and brought to medicine by eugenicists eager to ease public acceptance . |