Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 2 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 3 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 4 | The efforts of pacifists to prevent the Second World War have won them few friends . |
| 5 | I could do with the company and Mrs Manners has still got enough turkey to feed the third world and the poor Albanians . |
| 6 | WHEN in March 1989 the American treasury secretary , Nicholas Brady , announced his plan to reduce the third world 's commercial-bank debt , particularly Latin America 's , he was criticised for being too vague . |
| 7 | Both countries lost the second world war . |
| 8 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 9 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 10 | Second , if this is true , can capitalism develop the Third World ? |
| 11 | Dependency theorists , therefore , were still trying to answer the question that had troubled Marxists since the turn of the century , namely ‘ can capitalism develop the Third World ? ’ |
| 12 | Its roots were firmly tethered in the arms race generated by the desire to win the last World War . |
| 13 | Your recent issue on how the end of the Cold War affects the Third World ( East Meets West , North Forgets South , NI 211 ) was welcome — but puzzling . |
| 14 | We were standing in the baroque foyer of the hotel , which had been built in the great European hotel age during the peaceful years preceding the first World War . |
| 15 | Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians . |
| 16 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century , and especially in the period following the Second World War , nationalist movements generally took the form of independence struggles against imperialist rule by European powers , or against less direct types of control which create a situation of dependency . |
| 18 | Should South Africa host the next World Cup ? |
| 19 | It recently generated considerable interest from delegates attending the 3rd World Conference on Engineering at Portsmouth . |
| 20 | More than 2,000 delegates attended the 14th World Congress of Accountants held in Washington DC last month . |
| 21 | First of all , the discipline originated in two countries which were essentially satisfied powers following the First World War . |
| 22 | The bar chart shows what the average Westerner consumes in a year compared to a Third World person : the shaded area represents the Third World . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , Leon Trotsky described the First World War as ‘ at bottom , a revolt of the forces of production against the political forms of the nation and the State ’ . |
| 24 | Like Anne Frank , Audrey spent the Second World War in occupied Holland . |
| 25 | As Gilbert has suggested , ‘ Self-help keeps the Third World economy functioning ’ ( Gilbert and Gugler 1982 : 113 ) . |
| 26 | They also welcomed the prospect of a unified Germany ; reaffirmed the commitment to reduce the Third World 's debt burden , specifically supporting proposals to extend repayment periods put forward by the Paris Club of creditor countries ; and reiterated the commitment to combat drug trafficking . |
| 27 | Loans keep de Third World on de run , |
| 28 | There would be a history in which the Nazis won the Second World War , though the probability is low . |
| 29 | Charles Sweeny 's influence and financial backing behind the formation of the Eagle Squadron from American pilots before the US entered the Second World War , was recognised for posterity in 1986 . |
| 30 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |