Example sentences of "it [be] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the Third World poor . |
| 2 | In fact it is the Third World subject , the authentic founder of Black Studies , the original academic discipline devoted to the study and understanding of alternative cultures , institutions and beliefs . |
| 3 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 4 | It was the First World War because it affected most of the people of the world . |
| 5 | For Virginia Woolf , it was the First World War that broke something undefinable , something precious , in social intercourse : |
| 6 | The most popular suggestion is that it was the First World War , and in particular the huge sacrifices of men in the battle of the Somme and the other slaughters on the Western Front , which made the change of attitude , or rhetoric , necessary . |
| 7 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
| 8 | And it was the First World War that killed him , he had a brain damage , you know a stroke . |
| 9 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 10 | It was the Second World War that plucked ‘ Joe ’ Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration . |