Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] first world [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 2 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 3 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 4 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 5 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 6 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 7 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 8 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 9 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |
| 10 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 11 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 12 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 13 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 15 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 16 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 17 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 18 | I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’ |
| 19 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 20 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 21 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 22 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 23 | A campaign for a People 's Front would detract from their attempts to influence the Labour Party , and was felt to be inspired by Lloyd George , with whom the Communists had a long standing feud , dating back to the First World War . |
| 24 | This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself . |
| 25 | round about the first world war time , he used this sort of sort of pitching his tent up to the and staying there and learning their language and observing their rituals , getting to know them . |