Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] by [art] [num ord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 7 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |
| 8 | And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built . |