Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num ord] world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £300,000 extension providing an extra eight rooms at the home in Prenton Road West , is named after First World War hero Frank Murphy who died on the battlefield at Ypres . |
| 2 | The War Artists Advisory Committee was set up , not only to stimulate and artistic record of war and related activities , but also to help ensure that at least some of the artists would be saved from First World War carnage . |
| 3 | Several of the gasifier systems commercially available are made by Second World War manufacturers . |
| 4 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 5 | Britain , however , had fought to impede European agreements requiring catalytic converters on cars and even as London 's traffic slowed to pre-First World War speeds , planned to build vast new roads and to cut rail services . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old played Calypso in Channel 4 's steamy story set during Second World War . |
| 7 | Pardon refused after First World War executions |
| 8 | Some like " Diplomacy " , which is set in pre-First World War Europe , involve pupils in negotiations with other " countries " , setting territorial goals , and forming ( and often breaking ) alliances . |
| 9 | After a fly past by a RAF VC 10 , divisional officers from fire brigades all over the country unveiled a plaque in memory of the airmen who died during second world war . |
| 10 | Pressure on office space caused by post-Second World War recruitment and expansion of the collection led to further building on the site in 1954–55 . |
| 11 | They offered some credence to the contemporaneous growth in anti-semitism : limited and localized though this was , Jewish migrants were criticized and condemned in very similar terms to those later invoked against post-Second World War black immigrants , and which in the nineteenth century had been raised against the Irish . |
| 12 | I simulate ‘ what-ifs ’ galore From lightning strikes to Third World War ; No problems with communication — With Stratos I can reach the Nation [ Except for those so low and mean They have n't got a PC screen … |