Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Subsequent benefactions by George and Harry Wills enabled the principal buildings to be constructed and a cousin , the first Lord Dulverton , generously contributed to their repair from damage suffered in the Second World War . |
| 5 | Two other famous examples suffered in the Second World War . |
| 6 | When anything is being grown in the Third World , the United States seems to stand ready to supply all the technical inputs required . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 9 | It is significant that the states defeated in the second world war , on which a higher degree of devolution was imposed — presumably in reaction against fascist centralisation — lack most of the separatist movements of the rest of Western Europe , though on paper Bavaria and Sicily are at least as obvious breeding- grounds for such movements as Scotland and the francophone parts of the Bernese Jura . |
| 10 | The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | many crops produced in the Third World go to fatten up livestock for Westerners ' consumption |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 15 | about , by the time you 've read this another twenty two children would of died in the third world , aargh |
| 16 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 17 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 18 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 19 | Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere , while paraffin is widely used in the third world . |
| 20 | An average of 3 new monasteries are opened in the Third World every year . |
| 21 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |
| 22 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 23 | This her only son , born in the First World War , was now travelling to unknown horrors . |
| 24 | Those who are born in the Third World have a considerably smaller chance of surviving childhood than those born here — and the same was true of those born in the West a hundred years ago . |
| 25 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | According to United Nations studies ( see Fath , 1985 ) , in the 1970s less than one-third of the food consumed in the Third World was processed . |
| 28 | Mr Sowerby worked for the Water Board and unfortunately was permanently affected by an injury sustained in the First World War . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |