Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] war [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 2 | During the Second World War a similar problem arose with regard to the publication of Alexander Ratcliffe 's Truth about the Jews , brought out by the British Protestant League . |
| 3 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 4 | During the second world war the plant kept 19,000 people busy ( assembling , among other things , Barnes Wallis 's bouncing bombs for the dam-busters ) . |
| 5 | A paediatrician 's son , Harry Neubauer was born in 1932 at Karlsbad , Germany , but during the Second World War the family found refuge in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 6 | During the Second World War the island was invaded by the Axis powers and , after Marshal Badoglio 's armistice with the Allies in September 1943 , thousands of Italians were killed and captured by the Germans . |
| 7 | During the Second World War the house was empty until taken by an elderly lady , Mrs Fullerton , whose son was grown up . |
| 8 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 9 | During the Second World War the Germans used coal gasification to make syn-gas which was then used to make oil in a process developed by two chemists named Fischer and Tropsch . |
| 10 | The race continued throughout the war years , though during the Second World War the distance was cut to fifteen miles . |
| 11 | During the Second World War the house and many other parts of the village were requisitioned . |
| 12 | During the Second world War the centre span of the old swing bridge was removed by the Royal Engineers so that they could practise making Bailey bridges against the tide . |
| 13 | During the Second World War the Portuguese Government tried to insist that only neutral ships be used , but this was often ignored . |
| 14 | His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being . |
| 15 | During the Second World War the whole economic effort centred on supplying and employing sufficient quantities of labour and materials . |
| 16 | When during the Second World War the German occupiers deported the entire Danish police force for several months , recorded rates of theft and robbery ( though not of sexual offences ) rose spectacularly ( Chris-tiansen , 1975 ; Beyleveld , 1990 : 159 ) . |
| 17 | During the Second World War the capitalist allies worked together with Communist Russia without either side altering its views and without much real communication . |
| 18 | During the Second World War the ship was used as a barracks . |
| 19 | During the Second World War the headquarters of the Western Approaches Command was located on Merseyside . |
| 20 | During the recent Gulf war the religious police here lost a lot of their power because of having to lift restrictions when other armies from various countries were here . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 23 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 24 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 25 | From then until the suspension of elections during the first world war the Labour Party ( as it now was ) and Municipal Alliance fought with roughly equal strength for municipal control , and indirectly for parliamentary seats , although for most of the time the Alliance retained power . |
| 26 | During the Seven Years War the Austrian army is said to have lost over 62,000 men in this way , that of France about 70,000 , and that of Prussia about 80,000 . |
| 27 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 28 | Just after the Second World War a film crew made a documentary about life in rural England . |
| 29 | Shortly after the Second World War the typical advice given concerning this condition was : " Acute coronary thrombosis must be regarded more seriously than most cardiac conditions , a rest in bed for weeks or months , with a minimum of 4 weeks , should be prescribed in order to assure as sound a healing of the myocardial infarct as possible . " |
| 30 | In the period of expansion of the Inspectorate after the Second World War the tasks diversified and regular formal visiting declined ; in 1968 the Select Committee on Education and Science recognised this shift . |