Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 2 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |
| 3 | British Commander-in-Chief in France and Flanders during the First World War . |
| 4 | In context the psychoanalysis in order to explain erm Wilson 's actions and er , attitudes in the pres presidency of the United States during the First World War , basically con concentrates on erm . |
| 5 | It was he who , with others in the legendary Room 40 at the Admiralty under the direction of Sir Alfred Ewing ( later to be Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University ) , had decoded the famous Zimmermann telegram which played its part in bringing the United States into the First World War . |
| 6 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 7 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 8 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 9 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 10 | It 's an old generator dumped from a Zeppelin as it flew over Stroud during the first world war . |
| 11 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 12 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 13 | We also found Karl Bundt , born of an incestuous union of titled aristocrats who had fled the opprobrium of European society for the Moluccas before the First World War . |
| 14 | A St. Annes car heading for Blackpool along the long straight of Lytham Road before the First World War : notice the absence of traffic ! |
| 15 | So it 's quite an interesting , whatever you think about Woodrow Wilson in the First World War is quite a interesting book , in drawing a character study of the kind of person who Freud must have seen many times in his practice . |
| 16 | New Beginnings : From Schleiermacher to the First World War |
| 17 | Tonight he 'll recite extracts from the work of American writers who went to Paris after the first world war . |
| 18 | He 'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war . |
| 19 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 20 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 21 | The defeat of Wilhelmine Germany in the first world war led to the setting up of the Weimar Republic in 1919 , a constitutional settlement many believe was doomed . |
| 22 | There are perhaps 11,000 of them in the UK today and twice that number worldwide : they were exported to countries such as the USA ( where they have an enthusiastic following ) , Canada and Australia before the First World War and are also in the USSR , the Falkland Islands , Sweden and Germany . |
| 23 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 24 | ( It is all very much the same story as D. H. Lawrence 's persecution in Cornwall during the First World War . ) |
| 25 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 26 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 27 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 28 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 30 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |