Example sentences of "world [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 2 | Neither he nor Charlotte had intended to stay there long , But they continued renting the house for fourteen years , and after the First World War they bought it — after which it became known as Shaw 's Corner . |
| 3 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 4 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 6 | In the First World War they would have simply been taken out and shot . ’ |
| 7 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 8 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 9 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 10 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 11 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 12 | Are we slap a tax on , tariff on there that reduces consumption right , what with world prices , world prices they used to be here they 're now down here alright . |
| 13 | After the World Cup they rose to the occasion and agreed on proposals which , when adopted next year , will fundamentally change the structure of the game . |
| 14 | For instance , on Big World Café they had a new and young Black male presenter ( Hawkeye Cherry ) teamed up with a more experienced White woman presenter ( Mariella Frostrup ) , so there was a kind of playing-off of inequalities , if you like , of gender against those of age and race , presumably to try and break with the hegemony of young(ish) White males in the area of music programming . |