Example sentences of "before the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tall and willowy , but he was a winger of quality who had deputised ably for Welsh International Bill Davies before the 1st World War and , when fully competitive soccer resumed in 1919 , he was Manager Edmund Goodman 's automatic choice at outside-left . |
| 2 | Jack hit 52 goals for the Palace from 99 League outings before the 2nd World War and that is an impressive record by any standard , but he continued with us during the makeshift wartime arrangements and again produced a steady supply of goals — including a hat-trick in Palace 's first official wartime fixture at West Ham ( 6–2 ) . |
| 3 | And of course , all of the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , told ‘ at the charge room desk ’ were passed on to me by a series of venerable ‘ real polises ’ , who , in turn , had learned these structures of significance in their own formative years , often before the Second World War . |
| 4 | Preston Barracks was built before the Second World War for a cavalry regiment . |
| 5 | ‘ There were only about 15 varieties available then , but I did some research and came across an American monograph written before the Second World War that listed 250 . |
| 6 | With astonishing speed prime spots in streets known for fashionable shopping before the second world war are being snapped up . |
| 7 | A native of Austria , Rixi Markus emigrated to London before the Second World War , and in 1950 became naturalised , eligible to represent her adopted country . |
| 8 | A handbook for teachers published before the Second World War gives us the flavour of a drawing lesson in an elementary school . |
| 9 | During the 1880s and 1890s , the miller was Francis William Giles , by 1914 it was in the hands of James Faulks and between 1927 up to shortly before the Second World War , William George Perry . |
| 10 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 11 | The treatment of gonorrhoea was transformed by the discovery of the chemotherapeutic agents — the sulphonamides — before the Second World War . |
| 12 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 13 | Yet , she is running the slimmest Cabinet machine since before the Second World War . |
| 14 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 15 | There are no nationwide ley systems , though possible local arrangements are beginning to be discerned-particularly alignments onto ‘ holy hills ’ , as in Bolivia and as noted by the German researcher Dr Josef Heinsch during his researches before the Second World War . |
| 16 | The net result has been a marked resurgence of the disease in many parts of the world to what some people , including the famous American malariologist Paul Russel , consider to be levels that existed before the Second World War . |
| 17 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 18 | For we lived at 77 South Portland Street , top flat , right , all the time from the age of 18 months until one year before the Second World War ( 1938 ) when I was a 23 year-old vigorous young man , ready for anything . |
| 19 | Dad died one year before the Second World War , 1938 . |
| 20 | In his book Power , written before the Second World War ( 1938 ) , the late Bertrand Russell warned that ‘ To admire collective enthusiasm is reckless and irresponsible , for its fruits are fierceness , war , death , and slavery . ’ |
| 21 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 22 | A chancel ruin stands in the-graveyard opposite , the only remaining part of the original chapel built in the reign of Charles I. The former Wesleyan chapel was closed before the Second World War , and now houses the local garage . |
| 23 | The second and stronger tendency is a conservative nationalism that views the communist era as a Soviet-imposed interruption of a national democratic tradition that had flourished before the second world war . |
| 24 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 25 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 26 | The state had been involved in the running of publicly-owned enterprises before the Second World War , but it was not until the post-war Labour governments of 1945 to 1951 that there was an attempt to extend public ownership to any significant degree . |
| 27 | The Ffestiniog Railway , who caused a major controversy when they attempted to revive the old 1922 company which ran the 22-miles two foot gauge-line before the Second World War , have proposed a plan to re-open the line from the northern end including building along the track bed of the former LNWR branch from Dinas Junction to Caernarfon . |
| 28 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 29 | The jealousies and animosities which characterised the countries of Eastern Europe before the Second World War never developed into a coherent aspiration towards supranationalism on the West European pattern . |
| 30 | Although British industry more than matched American in its degree of concentration it was far slower to adopt modern methods of business organisation , especially the multi-divisional company form which had been well established in the USA before the Second World War . |