Example sentences of "[noun sg] after the [num ord] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It culminated in the clean-up of the industry inaugurated by nationalisation after the Second World War . |
| 2 | And of course after the Second World War and the comparative austerity of the 1940s , having fun seemed natural enough , and justifying having fun is what hedonistic philosophy is for . |
| 3 | In East Berlin in October , in his speech marking the German Democratic Republic 's 40th anniversary , Mr Gorbachev reminded the world that the Soviet Union had advocated the preservation of German unity after the second world war . |
| 4 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 5 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 6 | I have also mentioned the question of indictment after the first court appearance , and other hon. Members have suggested other means to tackle the problem . |
| 7 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 8 | Formerly with Sunderland , John joined the Palace from Belfast Distillery after the 1st World War and immediately cracked 18 Southern League goals in his 37 appearances in 1919–20 , proving the ideal partner for veteran striker Ted Smith . |
| 9 | It rose after 1940 , and with particular speed after the Second World War . |
| 10 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 11 | A number of choices were made on the introduction of legal aid after the Second World War , which have affected its development . |
| 12 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 13 | Spengler 's concept of the alleged unity of European culture and its primary faustian symbols was to be the basis of his ‘ Europe a Nation ’ campaign after the Second World War . |
| 14 | Lord Home , the former Conservative prime minister , said if Mr Gorbachev 's reforms were to show results , an enormous programme of reconstruction on the scale of the Marshall Plan after the second world war would be required . |
| 15 | The first generation to find itself in the vanguard after the second world war mistrusted opera , felt its connections with the old order too oppressive . |
| 16 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 17 | A MAJOR talking point after the Second Division promotion clash was why Sheffield referee John Key turned down a goal that would have shattered Middlesbrough 's unbeaten home League record . |
| 18 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 19 | In Latin America this occurred during the great wave of nationalizations which took place after the Second World War and involved dislocation from which some of the railways have never recovered . |
| 20 | I AM writing a book on the history of the famous cricket team , The Invalids , founded by Sir John Squire after the First World War , which provided the original of the team of literary gents in A.G. Macdonell 's novel England , Their England . |
| 21 | Not until de-Stalinization was well under way within the Soviet Union did substantial groups of neo-Marxist thinkers emerge and begin to try to adapt Marxist thought to cope with phenomena such as the postponement of revolution in the West , the revitalization of capitalism after the Second World War , and the political stability of liberal democratic regimes . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , in the period after the Second World War , as the Labour government made significant advances in laying down its programme for a welfare state , there was a growing unease about the scale of administrative activity . |
| 23 | In the period after the Second World War , British political science came into its own . |
| 24 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 25 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 26 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 27 | The adjustment mechanism did not work very effectively in such circumstances , as the history of the operation of the gold standard in the period after the First World War indicates . |
| 28 | And the period after the First World War was a watershed in the battle against oppressive hours of working . |
| 29 | In the period after the First World War Labour replaced the Liberals as one of the two major parties in the Commons without the aid of proportional representation , but we will have to wait and see whether the Liberal-SDP Alliance can fight back into Parliament under the established first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 30 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |