Example sentences of "and the [num ord] 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 . |
| 16 | I took the train to Fontainbleau , and to Versailles , and saw there the famous Hall of Mirrors where the notorious Treaty was signed which set Germany on the path to Hitler 's domination and the Second World War . |
| 17 | Industrialisation was prompted by the failures of Europe and the United States during the Great Depression and the Second world war , leading to import substitution , rather than a conscious development policy . |
| 18 | It was the forerunner of every luxurious railway carriage , of which the private American railroad car , popular with tycoons between 1890 and the Second World War , was the ultimate status symbol of the traveller . |
| 19 | The days leading up to a major championship meeting are always very tense , very difficult , and the second World Championship in Rome was no exception . |
| 20 | However , the First World War resulted in a loss of markets , especially in India and Latin America and the Second World War resulted in a sale of foreign assets and the abolition of imperial preferences as a condition for the lend-lease agreement with the US to finance the war . |
| 21 | To go on with , in the former days , between the Great War and the Second World War , there would never have been men working on cars in the street , as if the place were a communal garage . |
| 22 | Between the Great War and the Second World War there were always taxis in the street , not now . |
| 23 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 24 | 5 The United States and the Second World War |
| 25 | With hindsight , bearing in mind particularly the fatal events leading to Munich and the Second World War , Nizan 's gloomy prognostication might appear to have a certain validity . |
| 26 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 27 | During the Depression of the 1930s and the Second World War , alcohol consumption , understandably , fell significantly . |
| 28 | ‘ For Your Freedom and Ours ; Poland , Scotland and the Second World War ’ looks at how the men of the 1st Polish Army corps adapted to their new surroundings and , in many cases , decided to settle here for the rest of their lives . |
| 29 | Britain and the United States were similar , though , in that both were to be brought out of the Depression of the 1930s not by government economic policies but by rearmament and the Second World War . |
| 30 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |