Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] second world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 3 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 4 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 5 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 6 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 7 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 8 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 9 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 10 | The old-style conglomerates based around a bank which emerged from the pre-war zaibatsu differ markedly from newer groups that have sprung up since the second world war . |
| 11 | The mill is best remembered as Ayliffe 's Mill , the name of the family associated with it throughout its working life , up to the Second World War . |
| 12 | At Easter 1939 , with Europe once more in the grip of events leading remorselessly up to the Second World War , Leeds Deaf F.C . |
| 13 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 14 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 15 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Up to the Second World War , different industries in Britain were concentrated in different regions . |
| 17 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 18 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market . |
| 19 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 20 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 21 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 22 | The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War . |
| 23 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 24 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 25 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 26 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 27 | It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop . |
| 28 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 29 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |