Example sentences of "the first world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 2 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
| 3 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |
| 4 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 5 | The First World War had caused massive sociological repercussions . |
| 6 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 7 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 8 | The anti-Germanism reflects the Report 's composition in the aftermath of the First World War ; at the same time , this passage looks far ahead , already foreshadowing the opposition between Zapp and Swallow as representative figures . |
| 9 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 10 | Because Pound was not a combatant , and because he resolutely resisted making easily patriotic and self-righteous gestures ( this is what Homage to Sextus Propertius is about , very largely ) , the impact upon him of the First World War is under-estimated . |
| 11 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 12 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 13 | For a man whom Rebecca West , a contemporary Balkan observer , called ‘ repulsive ’ and ‘ treacherous ’ for deserting his Serbian son-in-law , King Alexander , in the First World War , it is a sepia-tinted view of history . |
| 14 | The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 15 | For most Arabs , the original betrayal occurred at the height of the First World War , when the allied powers made conflicting promises to each other , as well as to the Jews and Arabs . |
| 16 | From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC . |
| 17 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 18 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 19 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
| 20 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 23 | Much of the First World War output was jingoistic . |
| 24 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
| 25 | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 — while the First World War was still being fought . |
| 26 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 27 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |
| 28 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 29 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 30 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |