Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 2 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 3 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 4 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 5 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 6 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 7 | The village hall was built after the First World War and serves the community 's needs . |
| 8 | Frankie had nothing much more to offer till they signed to Zang Tumb Tuum ( ZTT ) the label ( named after a First World War futurist magazine ) formed by New Musical Express ( NME ) theorist , Paul Morley , and Dollar/ABC/Malcolm McLaren producer , Trevor Horn . |
| 9 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 10 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 11 | His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered . |
| 12 | From this grim situation the party was saved by the First World War . |
| 13 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 14 | In 1903 it was deserted by the master stevedores , who formed their own association and in 1913 a new organization came into being , the Employers ' Association of the Port of Liverpool , which stood aloof from the National Maritime Board until it was reconstituted after the first world war . |
| 15 | It was the products of American factories that kept the Allies supplied in the First World War ; it was American money that financed the Allied war effort and made the USA a creditor rather than a debtor nation by 1918 . |
| 16 | In the 1920 's a new high altar and reredos was erected as a memorial to those parishioners who had died in the First World War . |
| 17 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 18 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 19 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 20 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 21 | This her only son , born in the First World War , was now travelling to unknown horrors . |
| 22 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 23 | Mr Sowerby worked for the Water Board and unfortunately was permanently affected by an injury sustained in the First World War . |
| 24 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 25 | One postcard from Shanghai to Scotland , illustrating the railway station and posted before the First World War , bears the message ‘ is not the station like that at Fort Matilda ? ’ |
| 26 | The early conceptualization of the instinct theory was developed before the First World War . |
| 27 | Another form of child allowance was introduced during the first World War . |
| 28 | When in 1939 a repetition of the conditions encountered during the First World War once more led the government to intervene in agriculture then the conditions were also created for a renewed round of trade union growth . |
| 29 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 30 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |