Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 2 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 3 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 4 | Thus , the reforms started a course which was the precise opposite of the emperor 's intention — moves to resist centralization , indeed , to secure greater decentralization , a process which ultimately led to the division of the empire in a Dual Monarchy , and ultimately its disintegration in the first World War . |
| 5 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 6 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 7 | At the time she was lodging with two ladies who had lost their brother in the First World War . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Lambert is perhaps best known for his initiative in the First World War towards the production of respirators . |
| 9 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |