Example sentences of "before the outbreak " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 3 | By the time of Hitler 's last national triumphs before the outbreak of war , the making of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was almost complete . |
| 4 | ‘ In the summer of 1939 , just before the outbreak of war , my cousin and I planned , in this very room , what was to have been my first Lieder recital . |
| 5 | Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America . |
| 6 | Throughout all this , the United States of America had chosen to isolate themselves , but shortly before the outbreak of the war , in May and June of 1939 , King George VI and Queen Elizabeth crossed the Atlantic to visit Canada , also visiting and staying with President Roosevelt of U.S.A. , which much enhanced the relationship between Britain and the United States of America . |
| 7 | One of the men who had to walk down this precarious companionway was Malcolm MacDonald , the British dominions secretary in 1938 , still vainly attempting to reconcile the desperate promises of the First World War before the outbreak of the Second , trying to preserve order in the British mandate of Palestine by restricting Jewish immigration . |
| 8 | He had left his village of Clug on the Romanian–Hungarian border in 1939 and boarded a ship for Palestine just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 9 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 10 | A few days before the outbreak of war , instructions had been received to prepare and assemble the ambulance trains . |
| 11 | It did not reach 70 million , and the original target was not achieved before the outbreak of war . |
| 12 | Then he and his wife retired to take on the Post Office at Romaldkirk , some time before the outbreak of war . |
| 13 | Ernest Jacob 's parents did get out of Germany , just four weeks before the outbreak of war . |
| 14 | The last group of Zbonszyn children arrived on 29 August , three days before the outbreak of war . |
| 15 | Even before the outbreak of the Romanian revolution , there had been a growing scandal about Elena 's academic acceptability . |
| 16 | Even before the outbreak of war relations between them were strained . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | Just before the outbreak of World War II a long passenger train was in the station taking water . |
| 19 | The student generation of the late 1980s was attempting to improve their position and find forms of diversion as well as being concerned about the underlying social problems which beset China in the period immediately before the outbreak of the ‘ patriotic democratic movement ’ . |
| 20 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 21 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 22 | The list of sculptures is completed by three works created shortly before the outbreak of World War II , including ‘ Lamentation ’ ( 1938 ) , the tribute to her colleague , Ernst Barlach . |
| 23 | Immediately before the outbreak of war in 1914 Lloyd George was planning , in association with Rowntree , further measures to diminish rural , and to a small extent also urban , poverty , by the renewal of the countryside . |
| 24 | All the organisations interested in penal reform are disappointed that the Criminal Justice Bill did not pass into law before the outbreak of war and will immediately on the termination of hostilities in Europe bring pressure to bear on the Government to reintroduce that Bill , with or without amendment . |
| 25 | The same pattern is manifest in the new outbreak of social morality fervour in the decade before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 26 | ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war . |
| 27 | Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . |
| 28 | For the moment , however , the Old King was content merely to resume control of those castles which he had granted to Richard before the outbreak of the war . |
| 29 | As has already been noted ( pp , 92–3 ) , Bickersteth had argued , even before the outbreak of the war , that English ( if constituted as the university in miniature ) was the academic discipline best suited to offer a degree of human wisdom appropriate to such a task . |
| 30 | 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 . |