Example sentences of "of the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 2 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 3 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 4 | The anti-Germanism reflects the Report 's composition in the aftermath of the First World War ; at the same time , this passage looks far ahead , already foreshadowing the opposition between Zapp and Swallow as representative figures . |
| 5 | Because Pound was not a combatant , and because he resolutely resisted making easily patriotic and self-righteous gestures ( this is what Homage to Sextus Propertius is about , very largely ) , the impact upon him of the First World War is under-estimated . |
| 6 | The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 7 | For most Arabs , the original betrayal occurred at the height of the First World War , when the allied powers made conflicting promises to each other , as well as to the Jews and Arabs . |
| 8 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 9 | Much of the First World War output was jingoistic . |
| 10 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
| 11 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 12 | At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels . |
| 13 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 14 | The end of the First World War was accompanied by unmistakable evidence that the population of the greater part of Ireland had no intention of remaining within the United Kingdom ; and when the attempt to force a home rule constitution upon them provoked a rebellion , Britain had to recognise defeat , but insisted upon the Irish Free State accepting what was called Canadian status by recognising the King Emperor as its representative for external purposes . |
| 15 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 16 | After a brief flurry of original stories at the beginning of the First World War , it was back to business as usual and , by the early 1920s , some 95 per cent of film stories were adapted from the stage or novels . |
| 17 | There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 18 | Written between 1913 and 1919 , Shaw 's masterpiece famously ‘ began with an atmosphere ’ : that of cultured , leisured country-house England embracing the cataclysm of the first world war in a fevered death-wish . |
| 19 | A few , largely born of the experience of the first world war , transcend illustration and illuminate , like flares , the nature of war in all its brutality . |
| 20 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 21 | Following the end of the First World War , the leading question in the mining industry was whether or not the state would return the coal mines to their pre-war owners . |
| 22 | In addition to which , the Labour Party was facing the anguish of having to adjust its attitude towards peace and disarmament , commitments which had been established in the wake of the First World War , when faced with the threat of European fascism and the Spanish Civil War . |
| 23 | Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale . |
| 24 | Although Futurism succumbed to the ravages of the First World War and its surviving adherents were later to be put to flight by Mussolini , many of its observations and its leading artists , such as Severini , Picabia , Boccioni and Balla continue to inspire the main stream of modern art . |
| 25 | He served in the US Army Signals Corps during the latter stages of the First World War before settling in Onawa , Iowa , where he worked as a teacher and ran a sweetshop in his spare time . |
| 26 | The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats . |
| 27 | By the end of the First World War Binding had logged more than 3,000 airship hours and established himself as one of the most experienced and , as his service record stated , ‘ capable airship engineers . ’ |
| 28 | Towards the end of the First World War , Lord Leverhulme , the Lancashire businessman who created Unilever , bought the Island of Lewis to develop it . |
| 29 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 30 | At the beginning of that period the devastating experience of the First World War and the abolition of the monarchy had created a hiatus in the self-confidence of the bourgeoisie which necessitated the founding of the legitimacy of the state on welfare principles ( Offe , 1984 ) . |