Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 2 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 3 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 4 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
| 5 | It was restarted and , with the break during the First World War , flourished until 1920 . |
| 6 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 7 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 8 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |
| 9 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 10 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 11 | NOTEBOOK readers could provide the missing human element in a book being compiled by two members of a group dedicated to the study of the First World War . |
| 12 | Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom . |
| 13 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 14 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 15 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 16 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |
| 17 | The 1914 Illuminations had to be stopped because of the outbreak of the First World War , and it was 1925 when they were revived by popular demand . |
| 18 | Costly and time-consuming ( the operation was unfinished at the outbreak of the First World War ) , it was nonetheless essential . |
| 19 | In the period between its formation and the outbreak of the first world war the party made limited progress . |
| 20 | So rapid had been the settlement and subsequent expansion that by the outbreak of the first world war few suitable sites remained to attract new industry . |
| 21 | Other missions joined in : from 1910 onwards the German protestant Mission produced Pwani na Bara ( ‘ The Coast and Hinterland ’ ) , which by the outbreak of the First World War had reached a modest monthly circulation of two thousand copies . |
| 22 | Just before the outbreak of the First World War , H. N. Brailsford , a liberal socialist who did much to popularize Hobson 's ideas , coined the phrase ‘ dry war ’ to describe relations between the European powers : |
| 23 | The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 brought a permanent change in Japan 's position vis-à-vis the West . |
| 24 | The same pattern is manifest in the new outbreak of social morality fervour in the decade before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 25 | The parliamentary party on the outbreak of the First World War can therefore be seen to be in a rough state of balance , with the interests of land , services , professions and business in a near equality . |
| 26 | With the outbreak of the First World War , this dissatisfaction was to develop into a kind of domestic agnosticism . |
| 27 | In the seventy-seven subsequent years that divide the publication of Sketches by Boz and the accession of Queen Victoria from the outbreak of the First World War , fictional houses are seen rather than sensed , until the burden of acquisition , despite attempts to redeem it , becomes a tyranny which ultimately destroys the Victorian notion of ‘ home ’ . |
| 28 | Up till the outbreak of the First World War the needs of the industrial world could still be met almost entirely from alluvial deposits . |
| 29 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 30 | However , a third bill was passed in 1914 , but not implemented due to the outbreak of the First World War . |