Example sentences of "[adv] after the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 2 | Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands . |
| 3 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 4 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 5 | There were frequent rowdy incidents as these gangs of travelling supporters descended on a town for an away match , especially after the First World War when the struggle for Irish independence was at its height . |
| 6 | Changes in the structure of the work-force ( greater concentration into single industries and decline of artisanal activity , especially after the First World War ) also tended to reduce the relevance of anarchism and to leave a vacuum for Marxist ideas . |
| 7 | Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War . |
| 8 | Shortly after the First World War , the mill ceased operating commercially , although it is said locally , that it was still used occasionally for the production of animal feed . |
| 9 | It continued , in sometimes sporadic use , until shortly after the First World War , one of the last references coming in 1921 . |
| 10 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 11 | Shortly after the First World War the firm had occasion to make a loan of £27,000 — for the crew of a cruiser that sailed into Portsmouth Harbour with paying-off pennant flying , only to find that someone had forgotten to order the cash . |
| 12 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 13 | Shortly after the First World War tentative steps towards the implementation of a monopoly policy were being considered . |
| 14 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 15 | There were some departures from the norm : just after the First World War several tour operators organized trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium . |
| 16 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 17 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 18 | Yeah , aye , just after the First World War . |
| 19 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 20 | Just after the First World War , my father said to my oldest brother and me : ‘ Would you like to see a large grain ship on the river ? ’ |
| 21 | José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War . |
| 22 | This can be seen in the demands for some form of parliamentary control of the making and carrying-out of foreign policy which became more frequent in one or two European states from the end of the nineteenth century and which reached a peak during and just after the First World War . |
| 23 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 24 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 25 | Soon after the first Immigration Act , the DES produced its first major intervention , revealingly entitled English for Immigrants ( 1963 ) . |
| 26 | Soon after the first Sputnik launch , Macmillan crossed the Atlantic to consolidate the refound Anglo-American special relationship . |
| 27 | and any appeals against valuation have to be made soon after the first council tax demands are received at the end of March . |
| 28 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |
| 29 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |
| 30 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |