Example sentences of "world [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romania looked world beaters when they thrashed Wales 5–1 last May , but they dropped a point to the Czechs at the weekend and are notoriously bad away from home . |
| 2 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 3 | Dr Alex Comfort lifted the argument to the realm of world peace when he maintained that sexual activity of every kind is necessary in order to free human beings from the instinct to fight and harm others . |
| 4 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 5 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 6 | Beckmann was a latecomer to modernism ; it was not until after the First World War that he turned noticeably to the sharply outlined Expressionism that came to typify his work . |
| 7 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 10 | It was the First World War because it affected most of the people of the world . |
| 11 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 14 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 15 | Armand Horowitz walked a hundred yards along Kaiserstrasse , disassociating himself from World Security before he hailed a cab . |
| 16 | Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up . |
| 17 | One was the American Eagle Andy Dujakovich who set a new aquaplane world record when he slid , in a curtain of spray , from just inside his own half past the opposition 10 metre line in an attempt to swoop on an errant Puma . |
| 18 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 19 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |
| 20 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 21 | Britain invented world trade when we had an empire 100 or 200 years ago . |
| 22 | When I reviewed my performance I thought , well , it was my first major World Championship and I came fourth . |
| 23 | Tony Rickardsson cruised through to the Nordic Final stage of the World Championship when he finished third in the three-leg Swedish heats last week . |
| 24 | Do you think it would help world leaders if they did some ? |
| 25 | In 1989 Brazil repaid nearly $800 million more to the World Bank than it received from it . |
| 26 | The United States widened its rift with the World Bank when it rejected a compromise on a capital increase for the International Finance Corporation , the arm of the Bank that deals directly with the private sector . |
| 27 | We were pleased to see the Canadians do so well in the World Cup after they had beaten us over there ’ ! |
| 28 | It was national absolution : they won the World Cup but we played football . |
| 29 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
| 30 | Grubb said yesterday : ‘ I would be more comfortable about my chance of winning the World Cup if I had Denizen here . |