Example sentences of "outbreak of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 4 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 5 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |
| 6 | The 1914 Illuminations had to be stopped because of the outbreak of the First World War , and it was 1925 when they were revived by popular demand . |
| 7 | Costly and time-consuming ( the operation was unfinished at the outbreak of the First World War ) , it was nonetheless essential . |
| 8 | In the period between its formation and the outbreak of the first world war the party made limited progress . |
| 9 | So rapid had been the settlement and subsequent expansion that by the outbreak of the first world war few suitable sites remained to attract new industry . |
| 10 | Other missions joined in : from 1910 onwards the German protestant Mission produced Pwani na Bara ( ‘ The Coast and Hinterland ’ ) , which by the outbreak of the First World War had reached a modest monthly circulation of two thousand copies . |
| 11 | Just before the outbreak of the First World War , H. N. Brailsford , a liberal socialist who did much to popularize Hobson 's ideas , coined the phrase ‘ dry war ’ to describe relations between the European powers : |
| 12 | In Huntington 's chorea , the time-point of the outbreak of the first symptoms will vary considerable . |
| 13 | The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 brought a permanent change in Japan 's position vis-à-vis the West . |
| 14 | The same pattern is manifest in the new outbreak of social morality fervour in the decade before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 15 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 16 | The parliamentary party on the outbreak of the First World War can therefore be seen to be in a rough state of balance , with the interests of land , services , professions and business in a near equality . |
| 17 | With the outbreak of the First World War , this dissatisfaction was to develop into a kind of domestic agnosticism . |
| 18 | In the seventy-seven subsequent years that divide the publication of Sketches by Boz and the accession of Queen Victoria from the outbreak of the First World War , fictional houses are seen rather than sensed , until the burden of acquisition , despite attempts to redeem it , becomes a tyranny which ultimately destroys the Victorian notion of ‘ home ’ . |
| 19 | Up till the outbreak of the First World War the needs of the industrial world could still be met almost entirely from alluvial deposits . |
| 20 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 21 | However , a third bill was passed in 1914 , but not implemented due to the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 22 | The British Navy converted from coal to oil-fired boilers , and with the outbreak of the First World War , the British had an even more pressing need for Persian new and invaluable resource . |
| 23 | With the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) , the treasurership became much more lucrative , its holder being remunerated partly on a poundage basis related to naval expenditure . |
| 24 | By the early years of the twentieth century , well before the outbreak of the First World War , Germany was increasingly challenging Britain 's dominance as the world 's leading industrial and imperial power . |
| 25 | But at the outbreak of the First World War these were only in their early stages . |