Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] during the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 2 | Glory is about the class divisions in the French army during the First World War . |
| 3 | [ The Times , 14 November 1924 ; Catherine Cline , E. D. Morel 1873–192 4 : the Strategies of Protest , 1980 ; F. Seymour Cocks , E. D. Morel , the Man and his Work , 1920 ; Marvin Swartz , The Union of Democratic Control in British Politics During the First World War , 1971 . ] |
| 4 | The National Birthrate Commission during the First World War noted that many doctors were advising women to space their births but refusing to tell them how . |
| 5 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 6 | As indicated above , at one extreme , some believe that its emergence was entirely due to the internecine conflict of the Liberal Party during the First World War , occasioned by David Lloyd George 's replacement of Asquith as Prime Minister in 1916 . |
| 7 | Most obviously , its rising trade-union support ensured that it was to become the party of the working class , a process which was speeded up by the split within the Liberal Party during the First World War . |
| 8 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 9 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 10 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 11 | The rosary is made of stones from the Santo António river and anchor chains from the ships torpedoed in Funchal Bay during the First World War . |
| 12 | Painter Nadezda Petrovic made one of her most significant paintings after volunteering at the military hospital during the first world war . |
| 13 | There was nothing new about this experience ; Mesopotamia was discovered to be unfriendly terrain for military manoeuvre during the First World War and British service maps of the area are peppered with such legends as ‘ motorable in dry weather ’ , ‘ flats liable to flood ’ and ‘ marshland usually flooded ’ . |
| 14 | The inter-urban trams suffered badly from unlicensed competition during the First World War . |