Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 2 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 3 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 4 | Again , in Ellen Ross 's study of the East End of London before the First World War , the theme of women assisting other women comes across strongly . |
| 5 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 6 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 7 | New Beginnings : From Schleiermacher to the First World War |
| 8 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 9 | The emergence at this time of Freudian psychology , an important element in the international growth of this infant discipline in this period , offered one opposing perspective but was of insignificant influence in Britain before the First World War . |
| 10 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 11 | He had served in France in the First World War , commanded West Point , and served as chief of staff of the army before his able leadership of the allied forces in the south-west Pacific from 1942 to 1945 . |
| 12 | ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . ) |
| 13 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 15 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 16 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
| 17 | There were unsubstantiated allegations of serious misbehaviour while Scotland were in Berne for the first World Cup qualifying Group I tie against Switzerland . |
| 18 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 19 | It 's an old generator dumped from a Zeppelin as it flew over Stroud during the first world war . |
| 20 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 21 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 22 | Tonight he 'll recite extracts from the work of American writers who went to Paris after the first world war . |
| 23 | He 'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war . |
| 24 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 25 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 26 | For my mother , who remembered seeing her only brother , also called Robert , off to France in the First World War , never to see him again , this farewell on the platform must have been agony . |
| 27 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 28 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 29 | The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres , part of the array of accords reached by the Allies at Versailles after the First World War , encouraged the Kurds like the Armenians to hope that their aspirations for some form of statehood might be fulfilled when the Ottoman empire was dismembered . |
| 30 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |