Example sentences of "[noun prp] before [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 3 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A St. Annes car heading for Blackpool along the long straight of Lytham Road before the First World War : notice the absence of traffic ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The emergence at this time of Freudian psychology , an important element in the international growth of this infant discipline in this period , offered one opposing perspective but was of insignificant influence in Britain before the First World War . |
| 9 | Again , in Ellen Ross 's study of the East End of London before the First World War , the theme of women assisting other women comes across strongly . |
| 10 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |