Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next seven years , requests for assistance will undoubtably outstrip the resources of international agencies , and UN officials are already taken aback by the response of the Third World . |
| 2 | That this is rarely understood is a direct consequence of the combined influence of the state-centrist idea and the dependency thesis , both of which consistently confuse the power of the First World with the power of the TNCs , and the weakness of the Third World with the presumed weakness of its economic institutions . |
| 3 | The link with the third world |
| 4 | Weiss reportedly cast doubts in comments to the daily Neue A-Z on Oct. 10 on the existence during the Second World War of gas chambers for the extermination of Jews . |
| 5 | In the case of the Second World War the point is clear . |
| 6 | The Home Office directs the police , rather than ( as used to be the case before the First World War ) local magistrates , many of whom were owners of local industries , with a vested interest in the breaking of strikes . |
| 7 | Born in 1925 of a Ukrainian immigrant father , Bérégovoy was largely self-taught and fought in the resistance during the Second World War . |
| 8 | ‘ I had medals my father won fighting for the resistance in the Second World War and pictures of my late husband and my mother . |
| 9 | In Robert Musil 's great novel , The Man Without Qualities , cynical officials in shabby , multi-cultural Austria-Hungary on the brink of the first world war plan lavish jubilee celebrations for the old emperor Franz Josef . |
| 10 | Indeed , the Spanish Civil War came to be viewed by some as the preface to the Second World War . |
| 11 | Fifa banned Rojas from all football for life and announced a list of suspensions of Chilean officials , culminating in the ban from the next World Cup , which will be hosted by the United States . |
| 12 | Even the most perceptive of critics of the literature of the first World War , Paul Fussell , has totally ignored Williamson 's most important work on this theme . |
| 13 | Now , the issue here is not whether this was ‘ good ’ or ‘ bad ’ , the motive humanitarian or base , but that it had a tremendous impact upon the agriculture of the Third World at least in Latin America , South and South-east Asia . |
| 14 | Governments have not been as irrational and totally careless of life as the experience of the Second World War led many to believe . |
| 15 | A few , largely born of the experience of the first world war , transcend illustration and illuminate , like flares , the nature of war in all its brutality . |
| 16 | This view sees the experience of the Third world as being little different from that of the industrialised countries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | An Irish Catholic , raised in New York , he had been a gung-ho member of the OSS during the second world war . |
| 19 | The cause of the crash was a long way from BCCI 's original aim of becoming a bank for Muslims which would link the developing world and transfer wealth from the west to the Third World . |
| 20 | And how can anyone doubt , he goes on , that the course of the Second World War might in fact have been changed by a number of accidents . |
| 21 | The view that the universities should have a more central role in offering the kind of imaginative vision necessary to save " mankind " from contemporary destructive forces was given an added impetus in the course of the Second World War . |
| 22 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 23 | Harry Hanger joined the Palace from Bradford City in the summer of 1909 and his stylish performances at wing-half were an attractive feature of Palace sides until the outbreak of the 1st World War . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 27 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |
| 28 | The 1914 Illuminations had to be stopped because of the outbreak of the First World War , and it was 1925 when they were revived by popular demand . |
| 29 | Costly and time-consuming ( the operation was unfinished at the outbreak of the First World War ) , it was nonetheless essential . |
| 30 | In the period between its formation and the outbreak of the first world war the party made limited progress . |