Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I am aware , no writer on Ultra has noted the comparison between the Coventry affair and an episode in the First World War when secret intelligence was apparently neglected in order to protect the source . |
| 2 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 3 | For another thing the most profitable processes today simply do not need large amounts of labour and is it seriously expected by the government that as long as we avoid being tied down by the social chapter , we shall become such a reservoir of cheap labour , that we shall become cheaper and more exploitable than the labour force in the Third World ? |
| 4 | Thus , the internationalization of the UK economy has increasingly meant investment in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe and the US until they have come to far outweigh UK investment in the Third World or in other Commonwealth countries . |
| 5 | In the ‘ spatial division of labour ’ , the labour-intensive mass-production branch has a weaker role than in the 1960s and is partly replaced by TNC investment in the Third World . |
| 6 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 7 | The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance . |
| 8 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 9 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 10 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 11 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 12 | His service in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War took him to the Middle East , and there he was able to develop his interest in military architecture through the study of the citadel at Damascus , and the siege of the crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers . |
| 13 | Evidence of American interest in drawing together new alliances in areas of regional tension in the Third World in the early 1980s and of extending the competence of existing ones came , therefore , as a shock to Soviet leaders . |
| 14 | A Thirties scene with modern streamlined cars passing the massive war memorial constructed with the profits from shell-making by the Tramways Department in the First World War . |
| 15 | On one hand , the multinationals with their headquarters in the UK increasingly organize their worldwide production to gain the benefit of cheap labour in the Third World to carry out those parts of the manufacturing process that are labour-intensive , while the parts that are capital-intensive or rely on skilled techniques such as design are carried out in the UK . |
| 16 | The spread of the transnational corporations has brought significant changes to the sexual division of labour in the Third World . |
| 17 | The Cambridge historian Correlli Barnett , in The Audit of War , shows how the inadequacies of British industry in the Second World War were masked by the huge flow of equipment free of charge from the US under the Lend-Lease programme . |
| 18 | American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War |
| 19 | For one thing Bougainville , the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the second world war , is a largely untouched museum of wrecked warplanes . |
| 20 | The republic saw brutal ethnic violence in the Second World War , when its wooded hills and lush valleys were transformed into killing fields . |
| 21 | A RollsRoyce tourer , built for Lord Astor in 1935 but which also served as a machine gun carrier in the Second World War and later as a hearse , is among classic cars gathering at Duncombe Park , near Helmsley on Sunday . |
| 22 | It was destroyed in 1915 during action in the First World War , then was rebuilt after 1918 to the original design . |
| 23 | The trust aims to relieve poverty and distress in the third world , educate the public about the third world , and promote research into finding solutions to third world problems . |
| 24 | A named community , village , town , church or school in the UK or Ireland linking with a named community , village , town , project area or institution in the Third World , both in partnership with Christian Aid , having a link with the purpose of learning more about each other . |
| 25 | It is irrelevant to critieize TNCs operating in the Third World because they are out to make profits . |
| 26 | British Intelligence in the Second World War , Vol. 4 : Security and Counter-Intelligence . |
| 27 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 28 | [ F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins , British Intelligence in the Second World War , vol. iv , 1990 ; Constance Kell ( wife ) , ‘ A Secret Well Kept ’ , unpublished MS in Imperial War Museum , London ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 29 | British Intelligence in the Second World War , vol. iii , part 1 , 1984 ; private information ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 30 | If you want further information on how you can help tennis in the third world countries , then please contact Brian Hewitt Associates on . |