Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is too soon to say with any degree of certainty to what extent computerization spells the end of TNC jobs in the Third , or in the First World ( Caulkin , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased . |
| 3 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 4 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 5 | Continental strategy was uppermost during Marlborough 's campaigns in the war of the Spanish Succession in the eighteenth century and during the First World War , though Britain 's maritime effort was far from insignificant . |
| 6 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 7 | He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Roberts describes a way of life before and after the First World War which is quite fascinating and now , obviously , long past . |
| 9 | Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second . |
| 10 | This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War . |
| 11 | Regular air services , by aeroplane , did not start until after the First World War . |
| 12 | Coronary heart disease is essentially a modern Western disease and was rare , even in Western countries , until after the First World War . |
| 13 | And it was n't really until after the First World War when things really sort of er got started and er women sort of carried on and , and they do take jobs and occupations er that they sort of really came into their own . |
| 14 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |
| 15 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 16 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 17 | Aye , there was er a Billy , a Harry , and er there was another lot come , I c I just ca n't remember their name but after the First World War this Billy used to come round this part and collect cast horses . |
| 18 | But after the First World War , there seemed to be quite a lot of lorries . |
| 19 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 20 | Between 1912 and 1930 their most successful period was 1914–18 when all football was suspended because of the First World War . |
| 21 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 22 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 23 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 24 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 25 | As in the First World War , the imperative need for active working-class collaboration in the war effort greatly enhanced the importance of the labour movement in the industrial and political life of the country . |
| 26 | As in the First World War , the United States was in one respect more fortunate than the other major powers in the Second World War : she avoided either invasion or aerial bombardment . |