Example sentences of "[art] great war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Sir John French commemorative of 1916 , which the Rose and Crown Hotel in Selby offered its customers at the time , is captioned ‘ Souvenir of the Greatest War in History ’ . |
| 2 | What follows , while by no means comprehensive , is NME 's guide to the world blown wide open by the greatest war movies , a world we 'd like to see on TV as we wait for the next one . |
| 3 | DESERT Victory , which relates how Monty 's Eighth Army drove back Rommel 's Afrika Korps at El Alamein 50 years ago , is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made . |
| 4 | In the conference hall the seven great powers from the outer galaxies pledge their allegiance to the Dalek cause , and agree to join in the greatest war force ever assembled . |
| 5 | She walked and walked , up Shaftesbury Avenue , Holborn Viaduct , she gave nothing to buskers , veterans of the Great War , gassed blind , missing limbs , clinking cups , Cheapside , Threadneedle , Bishopsgate to Spitalfields . |
| 6 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 7 | The result , tracking Ackerley through the Great War , Cambridge , his years as Literary Editor of The Listener and the relationship with the Alsatian dog for which he is popularly remembered , provides a continual feeling of deja vu . |
| 8 | The Bolsheviks proved in the Civil War that they could defend the minorities just as well , or indeed better than the Tsarist regime had done in the Great War . |
| 9 | By 1920 the memory of the Great War spoke more loudly than ever . |
| 10 | A series of ornate gilt mouldings on the walls funnels down towards the brocaded red curtain , arranged into rectangles like the huge old picture frames in Mr Fuller 's house , surrounding the dark oil paintings he did as a student and smuggled out of Belgium when he settled here after the Great War . |
| 11 | The King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , wrote to MacDonald to say that the King was ‘ profoundly impressed with Sir Arthur Balfour 's letter to you — his review of the critical condition of affairs will , in His Majesty 's opinion , bring home to his Ministers that the time has come when even emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity which , as Sir Arthur Balfour states , is not altogether incompatible with that of the Great War . |
| 12 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 13 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 14 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 15 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 16 | In this respect , just as many historians have stressed the importance of the Great War in the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 17 | In the decade before the Great War this strategy had collapsed in the face of a solid anti-Conservative front , causing confusion in the Conservative ranks . |
| 18 | The Conservative strategy which emerged after the Great War , tentatively in the coalition years but powerfully under Baldwin , was a blend of the basic Salisbury recipe with added ‘ Manchester North-West ’ . |
| 19 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 20 | Then they went home to the battlefields of the Great War . |
| 21 | He lost two sons in the Great War … . |
| 22 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
| 23 | revolutionary transformation of the social and political standing of the official representatives of the Trade Union world — a transformation which has been immensely accelerated by the Great War . |
| 24 | So saying , he slotted a video into the telly and began to watch old films of air fights in the Great War . |
| 25 | He wrote it just before the start of the Great War . |
| 26 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 27 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 28 | From the plinth you look down long rows of white crosses and plain headstones on the far side of the memorial ; some say inconnu , others ‘ A Soldier of the Great War ’ . |
| 29 | Universal suffrage in Britain dates only from after the Great War and the right for non-property holders to participate in local elections only dates back to 1949 . |
| 30 | It was the home-town to the Lancashire Fusiliers who , because of muddles , bickering , ill-planning and ignorance , lost 13,642 men in the Great War — 1,816 of them in the scrub and shale of Gallipoli . |