Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Westminster model ’ of government was envied by Europeans , rebuilding after the Second World War , and studied by conscientious foreign politicians , engaged in the planning of new nations . |
| 2 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 3 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 4 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 5 | The third period , beginning after the Second World War , had distinctive features of its own , above all in Western Europe : a greater degree of government intervention in the economy , particularly in the construction of welfare states ; a continuation , and in some countries an extension , of wartime planning , and an expansion of public ownership or of various forms of ‘ social partnership ’ . |
| 6 | During the twentieth century two world wars have resulted largely from the conflicts among European nations , spreading in the Second World War to encompass the rivalry between the US and Japan ; and although that war may also be considered from one aspect as an ideological confrontation between fascism and democracy , the influence of nationalism was still very great . |
| 7 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 8 | It was left to our Juniors , competing in the Second World Junior Bridge Championships in Nottingham , to salvage our national pride . |
| 9 | A London that was still , 25 years after the event , recovering from the Second World War . |
| 10 | After the collapse of the communist regime in late 1989 , the new East German government announced that it would allow US , Israeli and other researchers access to state archives dealing with the Second World War and in particular with the extermination of Jews and other war crimes . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 12 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 13 | In Ireland the prospect of playing in the second World Cup brought the arm-wrestling contest between the powerful Irish Universities and the students union to an end . |
| 14 | The report will be used as the basis for policy making at the second World Climate Conference in Geneva in November . |
| 15 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 16 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 17 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |