Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 2 | I think Eardley was — with the Cornishman Peter Lanyon , who also died cruelly young — the most important British landscape painter to appear since the Second World War . |
| 3 | As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada . |
| 4 | But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible . |
| 5 | Michael Hughes — bright new star Nigel Worthington believes the developing Northern Ireland side is good enough to challenge in the next World Cup |
| 6 | Only the winner and the runner-up in Asia will get the chance to play in the next World Cup preliminaries . |
| 7 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 8 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 9 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 10 | Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more . |
| 11 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 12 | Released by a group of independent scientists to coincide with the Second World Climate Conference , the report said that to minimise the risk of environmental damage , the rate of increase of average global temperature must be held below 0.2C per decade . |
| 13 | After a year at Oxford University , Edward went to fight in the First World War . |
| 14 | Moreover the West has developed cheap alternatives for most things they used to depend on the Third World for . |
| 15 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's got to happen before the next World Cup . |
| 17 | The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War . |
| 18 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |