Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 2 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 3 | Michael Hughes — bright new star Nigel Worthington believes the developing Northern Ireland side is good enough to challenge in the next World Cup |
| 4 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 5 | Described by the government as a Japanese cultural tradition , the consumption of whale meat only started after the second world war , when it filled a dietary gap . |
| 6 | The premium and the insurance however gradually came to look less and less desirable ; and when the nexus between them was finally broken in the Second World War , the fiction would be abandoned . |
| 7 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 8 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 9 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 10 | In Russia , something like 20,000 books have already appeared about the second world war . |
| 11 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 12 | Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away . |
| 13 | The Wroclaw example was largely destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 14 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 15 | Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere , while paraffin is widely used in the third world . |
| 16 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 17 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 18 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 19 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 20 | The Anschluss of Austria , the occupation of the Bohemian part of Czechoslovakia and , following the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact of August 1939 , the invasion of Poland eight days later led to the second world war , the death of scores of millions and , on May 7 , 1945 , unconditional German surrender to the Allies . |
| 21 | Thomas believes that only four teams should automatically qualify for the next World Cup — the host nation ( probably South Africa ) , the two finalists ( Australia and England ) and the winner of the third-place play-off ( New Zealand ) . |
| 22 | This was the general reply from partners , who were specifically asked not only whether the course would not be more appropriately located in a Third World country but also for the experience of institutions that already have similar courses or related aims . |
| 23 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 24 | Much energy-intensive industry would then decamp to the third world . |
| 25 | One of the finest churches was that dedicated to the Saviour at Nereditski , 1198 , which was completely destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 26 | Speaking the other day to the Catholic Institute for International Relations , Noam Chomsky argued that the impact was entirely negative : ‘ the cold war was a war primarily conducted against the Third World ’ . |
| 27 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 28 | So I think I 'm actually talking about the fourth world . |
| 29 | Was he actually fighting in the First World War or ? |