Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 2 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 3 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 4 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 7 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 8 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada . |
| 19 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 20 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 21 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 22 | In addition the EC developed important trading links to the Third World . |
| 23 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 24 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 25 | Only the winner and the runner-up in Asia will get the chance to play in the next World Cup preliminaries . |
| 26 | British fascism originated in several distinct and contradictory reaction to the long-term decline of Britain and the dislocation caused by the First World War . |
| 27 | Relatives of an R-A-F bomber crew killed in the Second World War have flown to Russia for a memorial service . |
| 28 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 29 | Development planning in the third world is a team exercise . |
| 30 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |