Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps when we fondly remembered the second world war — and engaged in a massive collective oblivion about the causes and costs of that war . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 5 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
| 6 | ‘ My God , ’ she said , sounding a bit like a vicar who has just discovered the Third World , ‘ this makes one 's own problems seem pretty small , does n't it ? ’ |
| 7 | Frank , and those who agreed with his theory of the development of underdevelopment , unequivocally denied that capitalism could ever develop the Third World . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The level of undiscovered malpractice is a matter for conjecture although such evidence is continually coming to light , as illustrated in the manner in which leading drug/pesticide/herbicide companies callously exploit the Third World . |
| 11 | To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations . |
| 12 | I was erm i quite sickened actually by the fact that that Princess Anne comes on the television and talks about how we have to give our lunch to save starving people when you think your one royal lunch would probably pay the third world of some |
| 13 | They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth . |
| 14 | Now I personally believe that most erm policy makers in Britain , and indeed in most other industrial countries , do n't really believe the Third World matters to them at all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Two of a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference depict Papua and New Guinea orchids Dendrobium hellwigianum , on the 18p stamp , and Dendrobium vexillarius on the 39p stamp , that Paddy Woods has spent 30 years investigating . |
| 17 | In the third camp — implicitly supporting the Third World position — were the developmentalists , which included the UNFPA . |
| 18 | Many thousands of Lebanese had , like Gibran , travelled to America to escape hardship in the years immediately preceding the First World War . |
| 19 | None the less , important foundations were being laid in the period immediately following the First World War . |
| 20 | Even in the years immediately following the Second World War , when its manufacturing capacity was weak by any standards , the UK 's net exports of manufactured goods ( the surplus of sales of manufactures after deducting imports of such goods ) was 8.6 per cent of the country 's output ( GDP ) while net imports of primary products were 11.4 per cent of GDP . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These pigments are now rarely used , and any rug with this " corrosive " effect will almost certainly predate the Second World War . |
| 23 | The dependentistas argued that the global capitalist system , largely but not exclusively through transnational corporations ( TNCs ) , operated actively to underdevelop the Third World and that no genuine development was possible as long as this system survived . |
| 24 | It seemed possible that American impulsiveness or ambition might ignite a powder train from the Far East to Europe and accidentally precipitate the Third World War . |