Example sentences of "[verb] before the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 2 | Most of the stately saloon 's 74,000 miles were done before the Second World War . |
| 3 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 4 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 5 | Preston Barracks was built before the Second World War for a cavalry regiment . |
| 6 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 7 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 8 | In his book Power , written before the Second World War ( 1938 ) , the late Bertrand Russell warned that ‘ To admire collective enthusiasm is reckless and irresponsible , for its fruits are fierceness , war , death , and slavery . ’ |
| 9 | A chancel ruin stands in the-graveyard opposite , the only remaining part of the original chapel built in the reign of Charles I. The former Wesleyan chapel was closed before the Second World War , and now houses the local garage . |
| 10 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 11 | The net result has been a marked resurgence of the disease in many parts of the world to what some people , including the famous American malariologist Paul Russel , consider to be levels that existed before the Second World War . |
| 12 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 13 | For many its decline began before the First World War , as a consequence of its inability to maintain the trade-union and working-class support in the face of the challenge of the Labour Party . |
| 14 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 15 | For example , supposing you erm , this , this , this was used principally in child analysis , which did n't exist before the First World War , it was developed afterwards . |
| 16 | And though the World Council Churches was formed before the second world war yet , the first assembly was not held until nineteen forty eight at Amsterdam ! |
| 17 | One postcard from Shanghai to Scotland , illustrating the railway station and posted before the First World War , bears the message ‘ is not the station like that at Fort Matilda ? ’ |
| 18 | The early conceptualization of the instinct theory was developed before the First World War . |
| 19 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 20 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 21 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 22 | Its notoriety and extremism , which was a principal reason why Mosley refused to get involved before the Second World War , was mainly due to the wild verbal excesses at its meetings . |
| 23 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 24 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 25 | The levels reached by 1971 exceeded even the considerable levels achieved before the First World War . |
| 26 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 27 | ‘ It 's got to happen before the next World Cup . |
| 28 | The second and stronger tendency is a conservative nationalism that views the communist era as a Soviet-imposed interruption of a national democratic tradition that had flourished before the second world war . |
| 29 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |