Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 2 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 3 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 4 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 5 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 6 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 11 | French restrictions on an African press were lifted after the Second World War , and between 1945 and independence in 1960 thirty-six newspapers emerged and disappeared in Abidjan alone . |
| 12 | It has been rebuilt and readorned many times , and most centuries from the fourth to the twentieth — when it had to be largely rebuilt after the Second World War — have contributed to it ; it is a supreme symbol of continuity . |
| 13 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 14 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 15 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 16 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 17 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 18 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 19 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 20 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 21 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 22 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 23 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |
| 24 | The SS Samtampa , built for the Second World War , ended its life near Porthcawl . |
| 25 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 26 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 27 | The latest edition of Cine & Media , published by the International Catholic Organisation for Cinema and Audiovisual ( OCIC ) , is a special multilingual catalogue prepared for the Third World Forum of Educational and Religious Video . |
| 28 | The latest edition of Cine & Media , published by the International Catholic Organisation for Cinema and Audiovisual ( OCIC ) , is a special multilingual catalogue prepared for the Third World Forum of Educational and Religious Video . |
| 29 | Saddam is seen as the Third World leader who dared to challenge the established order imposed by the West , and for that he must be punished and his country destroyed . |
| 30 | 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 . |