Example sentences of "only [prep] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 2 | Herbert ( 1978 ) suggests that conference interpreting began only during the First World War , while before that international conferences were held in French . |
| 3 | The Thomas Cook European Timetable has been published since 1873 with a break only during the Second World War ; Thomas Cook Overseas Timetable lists countries outside Europe and has been published since 1981 . |
| 4 | Gremlin probably the species most recently to enter the catalogue of supernatural beings , for it was only during the Second World War that these misty GNOME-like creatures were blamed by British and American pilots and navigators for any trouble which assailed their aircraft . |
| 5 | The second " have " ( = " has " ) seems odd because the realisation happened only during the Second World War and is now clearly finished . |
| 6 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 7 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
| 8 | During the inter-war years commuting was encouraged by the railway companies and by speculative builders and it was only after the Second World War that the more widespread use of the car and the continuing electrification of the railways allowed the commuting zone to be extended further . |
| 9 | In the early 19th century , however , new legislation inadvertently deprived the press of its fiscal advantages , and its publishing petered out , to be revived only after the Second World War . |
| 10 | In such a context , " literary criticism " is " viewed with a certain tolerant contempt " , not only within the academic world at large but even within English schools themselves , especially by philologists . |
| 11 | Mass movement of women into the work-force dates only from the Second World War — especially from 1960 — and the improvement of women 's wage rates relative to men 's happened only since 1970 . |
| 12 | State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization . |
| 13 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |
| 14 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 15 | And it is not only in the Third World that people shy away from permanent sterility . |
| 16 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 17 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 18 | Our mentors and brothers at the Subud enclave encouraged us to focus only on the inner world , and to avoid exploring the dangerous but tempting " illusory " world of " Maya " outside . |
| 19 | The maillot arc-en-ciel is the rainbow jersey worn only by the current world champion . |