Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 2 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 3 | The universal availability of the mass media has been rapidly achieved through relatively cheap transistor radios , cassette recorders and televisions , which now totally penetrate the First World , almost totally penetrate the urban Second and Third Worlds , and are beginning to penetrate deeply into the countryside in every country . |
| 4 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 5 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 6 | Many thousands of Lebanese had , like Gibran , travelled to America to escape hardship in the years immediately preceding the First World War . |
| 7 | None the less , important foundations were being laid in the period immediately following the First World War . |
| 8 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |