Example sentences of "the [adj] post-war period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , there is no doubt that through the entire post-war period the readership of the national press reflected divisions of social class and education more distinctly than anything else — age , gender , religion , political attitude and so on . |
| 2 | The continued , indeed increasing , level of corporate interest in owning newspapers and TV channels characteristic of the entire post-war period reflects the continuing ‘ clout ’ which media outlets have in determining the selection of politicians and the issues which form the fabric of electoral debate . |
| 3 | In the early post-war period , the British welfare state was thought to be the envy of much of the industrialized world . |
| 4 | Britain thus paid a heavy and increasing penalty for not having joined the European Economic Community in the early post-war period . |
| 5 | During the early post-war period , the twenty-year period from 1951 to 1971 , as evidenced by the years 1951 , 1961 and 1971 , there was little reporting of rape outside of the News of the World . |
| 6 | The extension of Soviet control over Eastern Europe in the early post-war period is conventionally described by Soviet diplomatic historians as the ‘ establishment of international relations of a new type ’ , cemented by a network of bilateral alliances of which thirty-five had been concluded by the late 1940s . |
| 7 | Boxing continued to attract black participants after the initial post-war period . |
| 8 | In the initial post-war period , young people were a relatively ‘ affluent ’ group who were able to earn more from the 1950s onwards than they had done previously , thus creating the phenomenon of the ‘ teenage consumer ’ ( Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 10 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 11 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 12 | There is a sense of hero-worship for the Wigan side of the immediate post-war period especially and for Wally Lewis . |
| 13 | The characteristic occupational categories , and the relative strength of each of the seven county Federations in the immediate post-war period up to Ashby is shown in summary form in the following tables for the 1949–50 session : |
| 14 | Petrol rationing , restricted travel , limited travel allowances , the Iron Curtain , expensive air travel and ships still commandeered , made travel in the immediate post-war period seem a bleak prospect . |
| 15 | Most of Let Us Face the Future reads like a prospective history of the immediate post-war period . |
| 16 | Matters did not improve in the afternoon when Tony Crosland , a man of immense intellectual curiosity and an adornment of the Oxford Economics Faculty in the immediate post-war period , added his dose of wisdom and hope : ‘ There was ’ , he said , ‘ no surefire recipe for economic growth . ’ |
| 17 | Both approaches prevented any understanding of the actual processes of local politics , and thus both helped to further the orthodoxy that local politics were largely absent in the immediate post-war period . |
| 18 | Before World War II and in the immediate post-war period industry-wide collective agreements continued to be negotiated between individual employers ' associations and trade unions with little intervention from their respective central organisations . |
| 19 | Again Charles Reif spent two years of operational flying in this theatre , amassing an enviable mission record for a RAAF navigator of the immediate post-war period . ) |
| 20 | The widening of educational opportunity in the immediate post-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content . |
| 21 | This attitude contributed to serious misjudgements in the immediate post-war period because it was not counteracted by radical institutional change as a result of the war . |
| 22 | Although it was later denied any truth by Wolfenden , it has been suggested that the immediate post-war period witnessed a ‘ witch-hunt ’ or ‘ purge ’ of homosexuals . |
| 23 | In the immediate post-war period the problems created by the Russian Revolution , the emergence of a socialist Labour party as the major opposition party in Britain , and the extension of the franchise in 1918 to reward the working class and women for their role in the war , frightened some elements among the middle classes . |
| 24 | In the immediate post-war period , the main legal concern lay with local authorities which across the country were coming under Labour control . |
| 25 | Between 1945 and 1951 , the immediate post-war period , it would be no exaggeration to suggest that the authorities viewed monetary policy instruments as rather limited in their effectiveness . |
| 26 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 27 | Similarly in both Britain and the United States overall dependency ratios were highest in the immediate post-war period , as a result of the baby boom . |
| 28 | Since the immediate post-war period older people have become more reliant upon the state for their income ( figure 2.14 ) . |
| 29 | In the immediate post-war period , this discourse entered into the practical consciousness of many university teachers of English , eventually to such an extent that it significantly transformed the conditions of the discipline 's reproduction . |
| 30 | Shortages of labour in the immediate post-war period meant that this pattern of female industrial employment was not reversed overall , although it was in traditional basic industries , and any discussion of production post-1945 has to take account of a far larger North Shields female employed proletariat than had existed pre-War . |