Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] world " in BNC.

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1 Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation .
2 The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire .
3 However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government .
4 There are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world .
5 With no full factory Yamaha YZRs in the 250 World Championship this year , Zeelenberg knows his main rivals will all be on Honda NSRs , identical to his own .
6 Ideally , Barnes wants a Paul Gascoigne-style free reign to help England qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals .
7 Impact ‘ The long-ball game is no good to me and it wo n't enable England to succeed in the 1994 World Cup in America . ’
8 Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup .
9 Both powers know that the unappealing alternative is a return to the 1970s and 1980s , when America and Russia competed in the third world through warring clients .
10 Sketch of a reusable coffin from a short story by Ludwig Bemelmans published during the Second World War .
11 In October , Water & Ventilation in Salisbury ventured into the unknown world of telecanvassing .
12 After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production .
13 His brief is simple — to see that Hong Kong qualify for the 1995 World Cup preliminaries in the Asia Pacific Zone .
14 There were close Manchester links , Morrissey and Gedge wrote about the real world ( in very different styles ) and the basic mental line-up was virtually the same .
15 During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury .
16 Both belong to what Geoffrey Thurley diagnosed as the sealed world of French rationalism ; the difficulty of convincingly transplanting such forms of intellectual discourse from a French to an English context remains formidable .
17 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
18 I had a bit of persuading to do before the was set up , and it 's the only one at Oxford open to the outside world .
19 FROM THE window of the ancient DC3 liner the highlands of Gondar look like an alien world .
20 Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack .
21 It came into being to respond to two needs , a scientific need for machines more powerful than could be afforded by any single nation in a Europe devastated by the second world war , and the political need for institutions to unite that fragmented continent .
22 The sudden chill of isolation which Britain felt in a hostile world , and the thrill of Dominion contingents serving alongside troops from ‘ home ’ , raised in new form what had long been a nagging conundrum — that the outlying parts of the Empire which Britain defended bore no appreciable share of the burden , precisely because of the fundamental political syllogism : no taxation without representation ; no representation without common responsibility ; no common responsibility without sacrifice of separate independence .
23 Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation .
24 It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War .
25 I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there .
26 Neal Ascherson discusses what the Gulf means for the New World Order
27 Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said .
28 The ensuing entente between the government and political India lasted until the First World War .
29 The Network Queuing System , which Sequent obtained from the supercomputing world , provides load balancing and dynamic job bidding .
30 Firms can easily dissipate their first-mover advantages , as Henry Ford did after the first world war by sacking many of his best senior managers .
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