Example sentences of "[noun] during the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 2 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 3 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 4 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
| 5 | It was restarted and , with the break during the First World War , flourished until 1920 . |
| 6 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 7 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 8 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |
| 9 | British Commander-in-Chief in France and Flanders during the First World War . |
| 10 | In context the psychoanalysis in order to explain erm Wilson 's actions and er , attitudes in the pres presidency of the United States during the First World War , basically con concentrates on erm . |
| 11 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 12 | THERE is a respectable case which can be made for John Major 's unhappy decision yesterday to refuse posthumous pardons for any of the 307 British soldiers executed for military offences during the First World War . |
| 13 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 14 | Standing in front of the hall is a war memorial , which records the names of 13 men who served and/or lost their lives during the First World War . |
| 15 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 16 | Was there utility clothing during the First World War ? |
| 17 | It 's an old generator dumped from a Zeppelin as it flew over Stroud during the first world war . |
| 18 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
| 19 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 20 | When Norman went to serve with the East Riding Yeomanry during the First World War , reaching the rank of captain , she worked from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. as a VAD at the Red Cross Hospital in Richmond , travelling each day by pony and trap or bicycle , carrying a fresh egg from one of the Field farms . |
| 21 | It will trace the roots of nationalist sentiments from their beginnings during the First World War , through to the election of the first national government in the history of the islands , the Peoples Nationalist Movement , in 1956 . |
| 22 | It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War . |
| 23 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 24 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 25 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 26 | ‘ Finzi lost several close relatives during the First World War , and I think that his pacifist stance developed while he was still a young man , and of course , so many influential writers and musicians had lost their lives in the trenches — take Arthur Butterworth , for example . ’ |
| 27 | At least the poor bloody infantry in the trenches during the First World War did n't have to put up with that . |
| 28 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 29 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 30 | East Germany shows a sharp fall in the birth rate during the First World War and after the Second and the effect of the Second World War on the males of fighting age . |