Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 2 | The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad . |
| 3 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 4 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 5 | erm if you go back to the nineteen thirties , for example , depression , love on the dole , deferral of marriage , potential husbands killed in the first World War , low birthrate , small families , below the level that would replace the population in future , and many of the Wartime and late War reports erm the Royal Commission on population , which reported in forty nine , suggested that population may stagnate , round about forty million plus , even decline to about thirty million . |
| 6 | It is significant that the states defeated in the second world war , on which a higher degree of devolution was imposed — presumably in reaction against fascist centralisation — lack most of the separatist movements of the rest of Western Europe , though on paper Bavaria and Sicily are at least as obvious breeding- grounds for such movements as Scotland and the francophone parts of the Bernese Jura . |
| 7 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |
| 8 | After the collapse of the communist regime in late 1989 , the new East German government announced that it would allow US , Israeli and other researchers access to state archives dealing with the Second World War and in particular with the extermination of Jews and other war crimes . |
| 9 | Ingredients obtained from the Third World , providing work and sustenance to underprivileged societies , go into products which are sold to the more fortunate , the profits of which go into her educational programme aimed at making people more aware of the critical issues of our times . |
| 10 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 11 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 12 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 13 | Part of a town centre was sealed off and buildings evacuated after a second World War Mortar Bomb was discovered at a charity shop . |
| 14 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 15 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 16 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 17 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 18 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 19 | When in 1939 a repetition of the conditions encountered during the First World War once more led the government to intervene in agriculture then the conditions were also created for a renewed round of trade union growth . |
| 20 | This department , consisting of salaried solicitors employed by the Law Society with government funds , dealt with the matrimonial problems occasioned by the Second World War . |
| 21 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 22 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 23 | The light blue on red title , with unit number , and the curved ends associated during the Second World War with Guards regiments , apparently dates from 1940 when 26 Eng . |
| 24 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 25 | The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War . |
| 26 | There is an informative chapter on new conventional weaponry , and an analysis of the arms race from the Third World viewpoint . |
| 27 | The aim of the research project is to provide a detailed examination of the geographical structure of arms transfer to the Third World for the period 1970-1980 . |
| 28 | Released by a group of independent scientists to coincide with the Second World Climate Conference , the report said that to minimise the risk of environmental damage , the rate of increase of average global temperature must be held below 0.2C per decade . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it is correct that the world champions play in the Third World as often as possible , ’ he said . |
| 30 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |