Example sentences of "end [prep] the [adj] world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CB originated in the ruins of France one year after the end of the Second World War as Union Financiere d'Enterprises Francaises et Etrangeres . |
| 2 | LORD ALDINGTON told a High Court jury yesterday he remembered making inquiries to ensure that thousands of Yugoslavs repatriated by the British at the end of the Second World War would be properly treated . |
| 3 | LORD ALDINGTON was asked to explain yesterday why he had removed the word ‘ subterfuge ’ from a speech at his old school explaining his part in the repatriation and subsequent death of tens of thousands of Yugoslavs at the end of the Second World War . |
| 4 | LORD ALDINGTON told a High Court libel jury yesterday that he and other British Army personnel ‘ hardened our hearts ’ when obeying orders to repatriate about 40,000 Cossacks at the end of the Second World War . |
| 5 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 6 | The end of the Second World War is marked by the incipient commodification of social life , and as such ‘ the disintegration of the Modernist conjuncture ’ ( pp. 60 — 1 ) . |
| 7 | DETAILED evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial in Yugoslavia , Greece , and Ethiopia at the end of the second world war . |
| 8 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 9 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | At the end of the Second World War , we could go it alone across the whole spectrum of military weapon systems from high-performance aircraft at one end to the simple automatic rifle at the other . |
| 11 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 12 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 13 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
| 14 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 15 | The hotels were dingy and British Transport Hotels had added only one new building to their stock since the end of the Second World War . |
| 16 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 17 | All but one of the seventeen MPs mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs had attended Eton , but the proportion of Etonians on the Conservative benches has been dropping steadily ever since the end of the Second World War . |
| 18 | More or less since the end of the Second World War , Karajan had been fascinated by the challenge of music on film . |
| 19 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 20 | Towards the end of the Second World War Glasgow became one of the busiest ports in the western world . |
| 21 | Ever since the end of the second world war , France had endeavoured to absorb the Saar area into their country , but in 1957 , it was returned to the Federal Republic of West Germany , and following the signing of the Treaty of Rome by the original six countries , in March 1957 , the European Economic Council was created and the Federal Republic was allowed to join the E.E.C . |
| 22 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 23 | The mill was last operated on a regular basis around the end of the Second World War . |
| 24 | Bourton 's other mill was nearer the centre and played an active role from the early part of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War . |
| 25 | Helen Brotherton moved to Dorset after the end of the Second World War and has lived there ever since . |
| 26 | Just as the weakening of the Ottoman hold on the Balkans had drawn the great powers into regional competition , so the weakening of Britain 's hold on the Middle East , particularly Palestine , at the end of the Second World War drew the United States and the Soviet Union into the region , and also sucked neighbouring Arab states into the Palestine conflict . |
| 27 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 28 | Before the wanton destruction began there were 16 million sq kms of rainforest around the world ; that figure has been halved since the end of the Second World War . |
| 29 | Since the end of the Second World War people have been getting fatter . |
| 30 | Since the end of the Second World War , the development of two quite distinct European organisations has had a significant impact upon the constitutional law of the United Kingdom . |