Example sentences of "europe [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was introduced into Europe about the twelfth century . |
| 2 | 3D cinema THE NEXT generation of cinema technology from Imax will be shown in Europe for the first time at the Expo ‘ 92 world fair in Seville , which begins this month . |
| 3 | It shows Picasso 's response to World War II , ‘ The charnel house ’ of 1945 , lent by MoMA to Europe for the first time . |
| 4 | In 1348 the bubonic plague , known as the Black Death , struck Europe for the first time and , in conditions of poor sanitation , famine and undernourishment , made rapid progress . |
| 5 | Now that they have achieved that ambition ahead of schedule , Stokes has the chance to take a team into Europe for the first time next season . |
| 6 | Cézanne 's intensely ‘ painterly ’ art with its brilliant use of colour and its mysterious deformations , which suggested a range of new pictorial concepts , was a source of inspiration for almost all the significant young painters working in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
| 8 | Genghis Khan , the Mongol war lord , is said to have brought seed of the white poppy with him on his advance on Europe during the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | As Mr Cheney and General Yazov walked down a Pentagon corridor , Mr Cheney stopped General Yazov to point out a display honouring Dwight Eisenhower , who commanded Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War . |
| 10 | As with the resistance movements of occupied Europe during the Second World War , many hajduks outwardly collaborated with the occupying administration , whilst clandestinely supporting the resistance . |
| 11 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 12 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Thus among the most frequently cited examples of conjonctures are the increase in the population of western Europe during the sixteenth century , the rise and fall of European prices from 1791 to 1817 and 1817 to 1832 , and the pattern of wages during the same period . |
| 15 | His garden became the pivot of plant exchange between America and Europe during the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Jonathan Sisson was one of the most celebrated instrument-makers of his time , fostering the pre-eminence of the London instrument-making trade in Europe during the eighteenth century , ably followed by John Bird , Jeremiah Sisson , John and Peter Dollond , Jesse Ramsden , and Edward Troughton [ qq.v . ] . |
| 17 | The militarism which had begun to take root in Europe during the eighteenth century was now steadily gaining strength . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 19 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 20 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 21 | The nearest precedent is the extraordinarily generous Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Western Europe after the second world war . |
| 22 | The US secretary of state , George Marshall , displayed such imagination for the stricken continent of Europe after the second world war . |
| 23 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 24 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 25 | Symposium : Europe into the third millenium : 9–12 April 1992 |
| 26 | It 's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The chain armour had to be improved to protect the knight against arrows : in western Europe in the eleventh century the powerful crossbow came to be used , and the crusading armies constantly found themselves rained on by showers of arrows from mounted Turkish archers . |
| 29 | This form of romanticism becomes not only reactionary , therefore , but conducive to the sort of fascism that took root in Europe in the twentieth century . |
| 30 | G.Lichteim , Europe in the Twentieth Century ( N.Y. , 1972 ) |