Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 32 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 33 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |
| 34 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 35 | Not from the first world war ! |
| 36 | By 1911 , shortly before the First World War , it had reached 36·1 millions . |
| 37 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 38 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 39 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 40 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 41 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 42 | Until just before the First World War , a strong decoction containing sarsaparilla , calomel , cinnabar , anise , fennel , senna , and liquorice was warmed up and taken in quart doses daily for ten days . |
| 43 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 44 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 45 | Just before the First World War over 90 per cent of households rented privately . |
| 46 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 47 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 48 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 49 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 50 | With all due respect to my fellow countrymen , German prisoners of war have not been noted for escaping from England , not since the First World War . ’ |
| 51 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |
| 52 | One school of thought argued that mobile , offensive operations were no longer possible and future wars would be more like the first world war than the second . |
| 53 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |
| 54 | Early in the First World War substantial numbers of Czech and Slovak troops went over to the Allied side . |
| 55 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 56 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 57 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 58 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 59 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 60 | He too is remembered for his prowess as a disabled golfer having lost his left arm , and part of his right arm below the elbow — probably in the First World War . |