Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though the World Council Churches was formed before the second world war yet , the first assembly was not held until nineteen forty eight at Amsterdam ! |
| 2 | The early conceptualization of the instinct theory was developed before the First World War . |
| 3 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 4 | The village hall was built after the First World War and serves the community 's needs . |
| 5 | Preston Barracks was built before the Second World War for a cavalry regiment . |
| 6 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 7 | From this grim situation the party was saved by the First World War . |
| 8 | In 1903 it was deserted by the master stevedores , who formed their own association and in 1913 a new organization came into being , the Employers ' Association of the Port of Liverpool , which stood aloof from the National Maritime Board until it was reconstituted after the first world war . |
| 9 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 10 | They were situated in Coniscliffe Road ( extant ) , Northgate , North Road ( both disappeared since the Fifties ) , near the gateway to the East Mount mansion in Haughton Road ( disappeared when East Mount was demolished after the Second World War ) , and two at either end of the Bank Top Cut ( vanished when the cut was widened in the 1930s ) . |
| 11 | A chancel ruin stands in the-graveyard opposite , the only remaining part of the original chapel built in the reign of Charles I. The former Wesleyan chapel was closed before the Second World War , and now houses the local garage . |
| 12 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 13 | Another form of child allowance was introduced during the first World War . |
| 14 | The summer time was introduced in the first world war , do you remember that |
| 15 | He began law practice , which was interrupted by the second world war . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , an estimated US$4,500 million was spent on the 13th World Youth and Student Festival in July [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 17 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 18 | Genetic screening , a legacy of the eugenics movement , was invented after the second world war and brought to medicine by eugenicists eager to ease public acceptance . |
| 19 | The documents suggest that the radioactive waste was dumped during the Second World War or Korean War , from the Army 's Niagara Falls plant or nearby private plants operating under government contract . |
| 20 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 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 | Loch Doon was jilted during the First World War ; there were plans to build an important sea-plane base there , but after the expenditure of some £500,000 , the ill-conceived scheme was abandoned . |
| 23 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
| 24 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 25 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 26 | Anna May was under her boyfriend when the fuse reached the explosive and was blown into the next world . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , most of his work from this period — with the exception of two portraits of Anna May Wong and Gertrude Lawrence — was lost in the Second World War , and is only traceable in the prestigious pages of The Studio 's Photography Year Book of 1935 . |
| 28 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |
| 29 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |