Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Viral hepatitis has been recognized since the Second World War as being divisible into two distinct types . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 7 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 8 | His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered . |
| 9 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 10 | Such pains and miseries as they did not feel , they acted out : acting , indeed , at this level of ham had not been seen since the last World Cup , or the Peter O'Toole Macbeth . |
| 11 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 12 | A Greenpeace report published in Warsaw reveals that toxic waste which has been refused by the third world is now being exported to Poland . |
| 13 | It culminated in the sabbatarian excesses of English and Scottish Puritanism and the Sunday legislation , much of which has been relaxed since the First World War . |
| 14 | The Japanese archipelago is an important migration route for birds but nearly half its tidal flats have been reclaimed since the second world war . |
| 15 | In his childhood several adults he had loved had been killed in the Second World War . |
| 16 | Millions of men had been butchered during the first World War , and in post-war years , the ratio of births , as I understand it , was four to one in favour of baby girls . |
| 17 | Since the group was formed £17,000 has been donated to the Third World causes mainly through Cafod . |
| 18 | In 1926 Fenner Brockway , who had been imprisoned during the First World War , wrote in a newspaper article : ‘ The object of penal reformers should not be to reform the prison system but to abolish it ’ ( Priestley 1988 : 175 ) . |
| 19 | Born in Austria , he had been imprisoned after the Second World War but escaped to Argentina , where he was granted Argentinian citizenship . |