Example sentences of "the 1914–18 war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Southern protestants have diminished greatly in numbers since 1911 , because of the loss of life in the 1914–18 war , some emigration , and probably mixed catholic — protestant marriages ( Walsh 1970 ; White 1975 ; Ch. 7 , below ) . |
| 2 | The various types of Housing Associations continued to grow after the 1914–18 war , and under the Acts of 1930 , 1936 and 1949 they became eligible for subsidies under certain conditions . |
| 3 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 4 | The peak population in Lewis and Harris and the Western Isles was not reached until the 1911 census , and the decline began with the big losses incurred in the 1914–18 war . |
| 5 | Some new crofts were eventually established on land purchased by the Government , mainly for ex-servicemen returned from the 1914–18 war , under the Land Settlement ( Scotland ) Act of 1919 . |
| 6 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 7 | It lay derelict from about 1870 until after the 1914–18 War , when it was restored . |
| 8 | Robert England , after service in the 1914–18 War — he was the last officer left alive at Vimy Ridge and won the MC at Cambrai — graduated from Queen 's University , Kingston , Ontario and the Sorbonne and , after a series of educational , business , academic and government appointments , was chairman of the University Requirements Committee in Ottawa . |
| 9 | The 1914–18 War radicalized informed opinion on educational matters . |
| 10 | In a review of two books on the 1914–18 war , written many years ago , the historian and critic A. J. P. Taylor said , ‘ There is one piece of advice which can be given to all generals , successful and otherwise : ‘ Do not keep a diary ’ … |
| 11 | A good example of social research which is based wholly on historical sources is the work of Ashworth on the sociology of trench warfare on the Western front during the 1914–18 war . |
| 12 | One example of this work is the taped interviews carried out for the Imperial War Museum in London of the remaining survivors of the 1914–18 war . |
| 13 | This then was the works at the commencement of the 1914–18 war . |
| 14 | It was during the 1914–18 war that the King 's and Queen 's saloons were modified . |
| 15 | A 54 hour working week was to remain until after the 1914–18 war , when , on l January l919 , a 47 hour week was introduced . |
| 16 | Miss Shaw retired to the little village of Cadmore End , near High Wycombe after the 1914–18 war . |
| 17 | It was in fact some of the deaf schoolchildren who came closest to experiencing the horrors of the 1914–18 War . |
| 18 | In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war . |
| 19 | The 1914–18 war raised the question of state power point blank … from the moment the imperialist state threw tens of millions of people onto the stage of history and instantly revealed its colossal significance as an economic factor , the analysis of state power became a matter for theoretical and practical discussion . |
| 20 | For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war . |
| 21 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 22 | During the 1914–18 war , Laura Knight recorded the work of female volunteers ; after the 1939–45 war , she made drawings of the Nuremberg trials which are masterpieces of psychological portraiture . |
| 23 | From here on , until the old road was rejoined at the ‘ Windsor Castle ’ , Carshalton , the area served was entirely good-class residential housing , much of which was not built until after the 1914–18 war . |
| 24 | The railway line between the Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) and Beckenham , which had been closed during the 1914–18 war , was electrified and reopened in 1929 . |
| 25 | When a report was made just after the 1914–18 war , Nos. 1–8 , 11 , 12 , 15 , 23–26 and 35 were mounted on Peckham trucks , while 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 16–22 and 27–34 were on Brill trucks . |
| 26 | After the 1914–18 war , the Bostwick gates were replaced by leather covered chains , which hooked onto the saloon corner grab rail . |
| 27 | During the 1914–18 war , Laura Knight recorded the work of female volunteers ; after the 1939–45 war , she made drawings of the Nuremberg trials which are masterpieces of psychological portraiture . |
| 28 | David also rediscovered an elaborate but obscure memorial at Catterick to those of the local camp and aerodrome who fell in the 1914–18 war . |
| 29 | Despite a brief interlude during the 1914–18 war , Paneth continued to use the autochrome process right up until 1938 , although autochromes were no longer produced after 1935 . |
| 30 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |