Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 3 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 4 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 5 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 6 | In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers . |
| 7 | His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters . |
| 8 | Taking note of the great suffering caused by the Second World War , " particularly the loss of their homes suffered by numerous Germans and Poles due to expulsion or resettlement " , the treaty confirmed that the Polish-German border , as determined by the July 1950 agreement between Poland and East Germany , by later implementing agreements ( of January 1951 and May 1989 ) and by the December 1970 Warsaw Treaty , was inviolable . |
| 9 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 10 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 11 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 12 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 13 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 14 | Relatives of an R-A-F bomber crew killed in the Second World War have flown to Russia for a memorial service . |
| 15 | The report will be used as the basis for policy making at the second World Climate Conference in Geneva in November . |
| 16 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 17 | Although most of the great churches and cathedrals of this area suffered greatly from damage inflicted in the Second World War , the region still possesses some impressive examples of German Romanesque architecture . |
| 18 | The damage caused in the Second World War has been repaired on the exterior , which now looks well . |
| 19 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
| 20 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 21 | Having received official blessing from the Donoughmore Committee , tribunals mushroomed , particularly in connection with the social security legislation introduced after the Second World War ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | I think Eardley was — with the Cornishman Peter Lanyon , who also died cruelly young — the most important British landscape painter to appear since the Second World War . |
| 23 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 24 | The fact is , Superintendent , I wrote a rather successful book set during the Second World War . |
| 25 | On March 2 , 1990 , the Soviet Union declared its intention to pay Switzerland a lump sum of SFr5,750 million in compensation for Swiss property seized in the Second World War . |
| 26 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |
| 27 | But what is particularly interesting in the context of what his house became in the Second World War — and indeed what it is today , a Post Office Engineering Training establishment — was his financial interest in the Anglo-American Telegraph Company . |