Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 3 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 4 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 5 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 6 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 7 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 8 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 9 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 10 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 11 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 12 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 13 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 14 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 15 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 17 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 18 | The old-style conglomerates based around a bank which emerged from the pre-war zaibatsu differ markedly from newer groups that have sprung up since the second world war . |
| 19 | The mill is best remembered as Ayliffe 's Mill , the name of the family associated with it throughout its working life , up to the Second World War . |
| 20 | At Easter 1939 , with Europe once more in the grip of events leading remorselessly up to the Second World War , Leeds Deaf F.C . |
| 21 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 22 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 23 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 24 | Up to the Second World War , different industries in Britain were concentrated in different regions . |
| 25 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 26 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 27 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 28 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 29 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 30 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |