Example sentences of "[adj] world [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 3 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |
| 4 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 5 | Since the Second World War it has all been downhill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 13 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 14 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 15 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 16 | The problem is that while some commercial interests made a healthy profit from the '91 World Cup it failed to produce enough RWC cash to underwrite the Catania tournament , let alone the qualifying tournaments for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the First World War it was C.T . |
| 19 | However , before the First World War it was not at all clear how far the social democratic movements had been subverted . |
| 20 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 21 | Years before the First World War it was not unusual to see bare-footed boys running from street to street selling the Echo in all types of weathers . |
| 22 | I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember . |
| 23 | The semi-final of our first World Cup It was very disappointing to go out of the competition knowing that we had a chance , even though it was a slim chance , to reach the final . |
| 24 | If he could get contributions from Japan , the Germans , and above all , the rich Arab states , then the war could more than pay for itself , as well as unambiguously showing the world whose new world order it would be . |
| 25 | This was because once economic stability had been regained it was doubtful whether Europe would ever become the significant world power it had once been . |