Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] world [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Westminster model ’ of government was envied by Europeans , rebuilding after the Second World War , and studied by conscientious foreign politicians , engaged in the planning of new nations . |
| 2 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 3 | You can catch a sneak preview of some of the other pictures in this large ( almost 2 foot x 1 foot ) photo calendar by checking on the Third World Greetings Cards you 'll see around the catalogue . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is possible for the world to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions and still enjoy considerable economic growth , according to the fifteenth World Energy Congress , the gathering of the world 's energy-generating industry . |
| 6 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
| 7 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 8 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 9 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 10 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 11 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 14 | The third period , beginning after the Second World War , had distinctive features of its own , above all in Western Europe : a greater degree of government intervention in the economy , particularly in the construction of welfare states ; a continuation , and in some countries an extension , of wartime planning , and an expansion of public ownership or of various forms of ‘ social partnership ’ . |
| 15 | During the twentieth century two world wars have resulted largely from the conflicts among European nations , spreading in the Second World War to encompass the rivalry between the US and Japan ; and although that war may also be considered from one aspect as an ideological confrontation between fascism and democracy , the influence of nationalism was still very great . |
| 16 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 17 | A London that was still , 25 years after the event , recovering from the Second World War . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 20 | ‘ At the moment I 've no thoughts at all about preparing for the next World Cup ’ , said Best . |
| 21 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 22 | Was he actually fighting in the First World War or ? |
| 23 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 24 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 25 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 26 | The report will be used as the basis for policy making at the second World Climate Conference in Geneva in November . |
| 27 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 30 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |