Example sentences of "[noun sg] after the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And the period after the First World War was a watershed in the battle against oppressive hours of working . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet the same forces and influences on society which saw the emergence of the Die-hards as the main force of the radical right after the First World War also saw more extremist reactions from a small but significant group who thought like Banister , and who were prepared to use Burton 's supposed evidence . |
| 15 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 16 | Similar currents flowed strongly through the ideology and programmes of the French union movement after the First World War ( Dubois 1975 : ch. 3 ) . |
| 17 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 18 | ‘ The danger is that our military could develop the syndrome of the German army after the first world war . ’ |
| 19 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
| 20 | The USA , which had emerged as the most powerful nation in the world after the First World War , played an important role in the post-war world . |
| 21 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 22 | Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent . |
| 23 | When Hungary 's ruler after the first world war , Admiral Horthy , defeated an attempt by Zita and Karl to regain their throne , most Hungarians were not sorry . |
| 24 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 25 | The attraction of fascism after the first World War |
| 26 | The only restriction materials to be included was the level of difficulty and some of the more advanced texts were withdrawn from the database after the first pilot use . |
| 27 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 28 | As can be seen in Table 1 , throughout this century there has been a large decline in private renting , and a corresponding increase in owner-occupation and council housing , which began to get under way after the First World War . |
| 29 | They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere . |
| 30 | These had expanded in intensity after the First World War , with extensive housing development in the areas served . |