Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 2 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 3 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 4 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
| 5 | Despite an English-sounding name , he was born in central Europe and fought with distinction for the British in the Second World War . |
| 6 | Vaccines against measles , polio , whooping cough and other killing infections prevalent in the third world are much more sensitive , however . |
| 7 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 8 | We were married eventually on 29 December in St Cuthbert 's Church , Edinburgh , in the little chapel which was a memorial to the fallen of the First World War . |
| 9 | There is an immense difference between the political systems of fascism and of liberal democracy , either of which may exist in a capitalist society ; and no one can doubt that the history of the world would have been very different if the fascist powers had been victorious in the Second World War . |
| 10 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 11 | For them , nuclear weapons were regarded as an extension of artillery , which had been so crucial in the second world war . |
| 12 | That is that industrialised agriculture in its current form is neither sustainable nor exportable to the Third World . |
| 13 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 14 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |
| 15 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |
| 16 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 17 | But do these totals prove that hooligan behaviour of a kind broadly comparable with the present day was widespread before the First World War ? |
| 18 | More particularly , attacks on players and match officials were predominant before the First World War , whilst fights between opposing fan groups are predominant today ’ ( Dunning , 1990:76 ) . |
| 19 | Alexander extended Russia 's borders further west than ever and they remained essentially unchanged until the First World War . |
| 20 | DOROTHEA RAMSEY was a pioneer in work for old people and one of the leading figures in establishing residential homes for the elderly during the Second World War . |
| 21 | He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World . |
| 22 | How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ? |
| 23 | One group is developing hardware for a personal computer , sufficiently robust and inexpensive to be useful in the Third World . |
| 24 | This was well before the First World War . |
| 25 | The numbers change but the plight of the poor in the Third World is still the greatest issue of our times . |
| 26 | But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt . |
| 27 | Realisation that our affluence in Britain , including mine , is at the expense of the poor in the Third World is a troubling conclusion that demands personal action . |
| 28 | Who is to determine what the poor in the Third World really do need ? |
| 29 | Many Rottweilers were imported prior to the Second World War but their influence on the breed today is negligible because , as in other countries , the war so seriously destroyed the breeding programme . |
| 30 | It is known that Rottweilers had been imported prior to the Second World War , probably by German and Dutch immigrants . |