Example sentences of "from the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the First World War until the mid-Sixties , administrative — or ‘ public ’ — law scarcely existed beyond the pioneering textbooks of Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade QC . |
| 2 | Her father had been an invalid from the First World War — some kind of nervous trouble , I believe . |
| 3 | It was the main loser in both territory and population from the First World War . |
| 4 | From the First World War up to the mill 's final working days in the 1940s , the miller was Joseph T. Wilkins and Sons . |
| 5 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 6 | This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself . |
| 7 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 8 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 9 | POEMS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR |
| 10 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 11 | POEMS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR |
| 12 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 13 | Not from the first world war ! |
| 14 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 15 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 16 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 17 | It has been proposed by several workers that trench nephritis was caused by hantavirus , although the classic descriptions from the First World War do not tally closely with the variants of hantavirus infection that have been described in the past 40 years . |
| 18 | The British labour movement , the Labour Party and the trade unions , emerged from the First World War greatly strengthened . |
| 19 | A scene from the first world war … effects recreated for a unique airshow . |
| 20 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 21 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |