Example sentences of "and the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | This critical strain culminates in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) , which argues that the gentlemanly values appropriate to the Boer War and the First World War are no longer suitable for fighting the Nazis . |
| 2 | Furthermore , war is one of the most radical forces centralizing a country , and the First World War was , for the Russias , a massive influence in this respect . |
| 3 | The Chinese Eastern railway was completed in 1904 , and the Amur railway was developed between 1908 and the First World War . |
| 4 | Brass Castle Hill is the site of a dwelling , a few small shops , the post office and the First World War memorial . |
| 5 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 6 | One-third of the Jewish population of Great Britain lived there and the influx of refugees escaping from persecution in eastern Europe between 1880 and the First World War had exacerbated many of the social problems of this decaying inner city area . |
| 7 | The writings of Ada Nield Chew , a working-class feminist who , between 1894 and the First World War , wrote many newspaper articles on women 's issues and was hostile to the idea of family allowances , have recently been collected together in Ada Nield Chew : The Life and Writings of a Working Woman ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | The distribution of wealth and poverty were examined more systematically between 1900 and the first world war than ever before . |
| 9 | The division between the private and the public sphere , which was located both in economic development ( the separation of work and home ) and in social ideology , was by the end of the nineteenth century at the heart of moral discourse ; as a corollary , not surprisingly , the development of social purity was to have profound effects between the 1880s and the First World War on the regulation of sexual behaviour . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) The USA and the First World War |
| 11 | Russia mobilized her army , Germany immediately followed suit , and the First World War ensued . |
| 12 | G. A. Studdert Kennedy , by his Friends , 1929 ; Roy Fuller , ‘ Woodbine Willie ’ Lives ’ in Owls and Artificers , 1971 ; Gerald Studdert-Kennedy , Dog-Collar Democracy : the Industrial Christian Fellowship , 1919–1929 , 1982 ; Alan Wilkinson , The Church of England and the First World War , 1978 ; ‘ Woodbine Willie ’ ( centenary assessment ) in Church Times , vol. xxiv , part 6 , 1983 . ] |
| 13 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 14 | Yeah and the First World War . |
| 15 | Some of this research suggests that in certain cases , for example the bauxite and aluminium industry , the global disposition of power is still very much in favour of the First World TNCs , while in other cases , for example petroleum and perhaps copper , the balance of power has shifted in recent decades , and the First World TNCs have to be content with a smaller share of the revenues . |