Example sentences of "[verb] from the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 2 | There is an informative chapter on new conventional weaponry , and an analysis of the arms race from the Third World viewpoint . |
| 3 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 4 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 5 | Particularly so when the student had read Politics and Economics at the LSE , came from the Third World , and had a dark skin . |
| 6 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 7 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 8 | A London that was still , 25 years after the event , recovering from the Second World War . |
| 9 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 10 | Aware of the concern felt by many in his audience of European parliamentarians about the potential power of a united Germany , Mr Shevardnadze went out of his way to express agreement with President Franois Mitterrand that ‘ no European country can act without due regard for the European balance , without taking into account the interests of others and the existing historical situation that resulted from the second world war ’ . |
| 11 | The British labour movement , the Labour Party and the trade unions , emerged from the First World War greatly strengthened . |
| 12 | Although nominally a Great Power in 1945 , with a seat on the United Nations Security Council and the second largest Empire in the world , France emerged from the Second World War as a much-weakened nation . |
| 13 | But how should we evaluate the cold war 's impact on the world outside Europe and North America — on the world which emerged from the second world war still largely in the condition of colonialism ? |
| 14 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 15 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 16 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 17 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 18 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 19 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 20 | Ingredients obtained from the Third World , providing work and sustenance to underprivileged societies , go into products which are sold to the more fortunate , the profits of which go into her educational programme aimed at making people more aware of the critical issues of our times . |
| 21 | I mean , cotton and things like this come from the Third World , does n't it . |
| 22 | And it was to look at basic supermarket products really that are sourced from the Third World , and to try and have a standard that you could say , yes , that 's been traded fairly . |
| 23 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
| 24 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |