Example sentences of "[adj] world [noun sg] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 2 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 3 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 4 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 5 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |
| 6 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 7 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 8 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 9 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 11 | Before the Second World War he was a junior assistant engineer with the North Metropolitan Power Company at Bishops Stortford . |
| 12 | On the outbreak of the Second World War he was commissioned into the RAF 's equipment branch . |
| 13 | No me elder brother was , not me second brother , that was the Second World War he was in . |
| 14 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |
| 15 | By the First World War it was C.T . |
| 16 | However , before the First World War it was not at all clear how far the social democratic movements had been subverted . |
| 17 | Years before the First World War it was not unusual to see bare-footed boys running from street to street selling the Echo in all types of weathers . |
| 18 | I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember . |
| 19 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |
| 20 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 21 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 22 | Known throughout the Army world for his outstanding service as a chaplain in the First World War he was held in great affection and esteem . |
| 23 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 24 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 25 | The semi-final of our first World Cup It was very disappointing to go out of the competition knowing that we had a chance , even though it was a slim chance , to reach the final . |
| 26 | Only two were against : the Ecumenical Center for Development in the Philippines ( ‘ such learning process becomes more profound and meaningful within the locus of people 's struggle or action ’ ) and the WCC ( ‘ from a Third World perspective we are not at all sure that your proposal in its present form meets the need ’ ) . |