Example sentences of "[noun sg] during the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 2 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 3 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
| 4 | It was restarted and , with the break during the First World War , flourished until 1920 . |
| 5 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 6 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 7 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |
| 8 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 9 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 10 | Was there utility clothing during the First World War ? |
| 11 | A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier . |
| 12 | The manufacture of chemicals such as lactic acid and citric acid during the first world war were probably the first examples to be labelled with the term ‘ biotechnology ’ . |
| 13 | When Norman went to serve with the East Riding Yeomanry during the First World War , reaching the rank of captain , she worked from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. as a VAD at the Red Cross Hospital in Richmond , travelling each day by pony and trap or bicycle , carrying a fresh egg from one of the Field farms . |
| 14 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 15 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 16 | East Germany shows a sharp fall in the birth rate during the First World War and after the Second and the effect of the Second World War on the males of fighting age . |
| 17 | The National Birthrate Commission during the First World War noted that many doctors were advising women to space their births but refusing to tell them how . |
| 18 | The inter-urban trams suffered badly from unlicensed competition during the First World War . |
| 19 | Glory is about the class divisions in the French army during the First World War . |
| 20 | Clifford Race volunteered for the army during the First World War and served as a farrier . |
| 21 | THE PRIME Minister yesterday ruled out posthumous pardons for more than 300 British soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion during the First World War . |
| 22 | The rosary is made of stones from the Santo António river and anchor chains from the ships torpedoed in Funchal Bay during the First World War . |
| 23 | Painter Nadezda Petrovic made one of her most significant paintings after volunteering at the military hospital during the first world war . |
| 24 | Port Meadow was turned into an aerodrome during the first world war years , a training base for those early monoplanes and biplanes . |
| 25 | It was decreed that the old rating system should seek to produce a value based on a free market in property , but the House destroyed that free market in property during the first world war . |
| 26 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 27 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 28 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 29 | It moved from Greenwich in 1933 to new premises built on an estate provided by ship owner Gifford Sherman Reade in gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in safeguarding shipping during the First World War . |
| 30 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |