Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 3 | His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |