Example sentences of "[adj] world [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an old world custom he adhered to . |
| 2 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 6 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 7 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 8 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 9 | It 's only since the Second World War I think that a few nations , especially the , the , the highly socialist ones with a strong erm directed policy of sports , in sports and education , have begun to put an amount of effort into sports training which the less socialistic and less state concentrated countries like our own have found a , a bit offensive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 12 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 13 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 14 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |
| 15 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 16 | Since the Second World War it has all been downhill . |
| 17 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 18 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 19 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
| 20 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 21 | Before the Second World War it boasted a church , two chapels , a school , three shops , a post office , two joiners , two tailors , a ladies dressmaker ( specialising in high quality garments ! ) , a cobbler , a slaughter-house and butcher , a fish and chip shop and two public houses . |
| 22 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 23 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 24 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 25 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 26 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 27 | In the Second World War he seems to have thought that 5 per cent would be a reasonable target for postwar policy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 30 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |