Example sentences of "first world war " in BNC.
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1 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
2 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
3 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |
4 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
5 | The First World War had caused massive sociological repercussions . |
6 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
7 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
8 | The anti-Germanism reflects the Report 's composition in the aftermath of the First World War ; at the same time , this passage looks far ahead , already foreshadowing the opposition between Zapp and Swallow as representative figures . |
9 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
10 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
11 | Because Pound was not a combatant , and because he resolutely resisted making easily patriotic and self-righteous gestures ( this is what Homage to Sextus Propertius is about , very largely ) , the impact upon him of the First World War is under-estimated . |
12 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
13 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
14 | For a man whom Rebecca West , a contemporary Balkan observer , called ‘ repulsive ’ and ‘ treacherous ’ for deserting his Serbian son-in-law , King Alexander , in the First World War , it is a sepia-tinted view of history . |
15 | The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War . |
16 | For most Arabs , the original betrayal occurred at the height of the First World War , when the allied powers made conflicting promises to each other , as well as to the Jews and Arabs . |
17 | From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC . |
18 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
19 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
20 | Like Jim Larkin said in the First World War , ‘ Hang the Kaiser and all his relatives ’ , ' he said . |
21 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
22 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
23 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
24 | Much of the First World War output was jingoistic . |
25 | Today 's price for run-of-the-mill First World War grips is £7-£15 and for Second World War £3-£8 . |
26 | Like the immortal ‘ Old Bill ’ in Bruce Bairns father 's First World War cartoon of the trenches , the patient British urged their neighbours that if they knew of ‘ a better'ole ’ they should go to it . |
27 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
28 | The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 — while the First World War was still being fought . |
29 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
30 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |