Example sentences of "to [art] first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German propaganda machine — and Hitler himself in his speeches — continued , of course , to hammer home the theme that , in contrast to the First World War , Front and Heimat were indivisibly united , and the bonds between leadership and people unbreakable . |
| 2 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 3 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |
| 4 | In 1889 , the miller was the aptly named Mr T. Miller , and between 1897 to the First World War , Frank Parry . |
| 5 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 6 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 7 | There were increasing clashes between the Russians and the minority peoples on the issue in the run-up to the First World War . |
| 8 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 9 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 10 | In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism . |
| 11 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 12 | New Beginnings : From Schleiermacher to the First World War |
| 13 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the arrival , of amongst others , the Irish , especially in the 1840s during the great famine ( Walvin , 1984 , pp. 48–60 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 120 — 50 ) and Eastern European Jews , fleeing from racist persecution in the period from 1880s to the First World War ( Walvin , 1984 , pp. 61–677 ) . |
| 15 | For the period 1757–1822 it has been calculated that the aggregate drain was approximately £250 million , while it has been pointed out that for the period from the 1850s to the First World War surpluses from the Indian economy were crucial in allowing Britain to balance its deficits with Europe and the USA ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 81 , 88 ) . |
| 16 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 17 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 18 | Prior to the First World War unrelieved hostility towards the Jews , which expressed both obsession with their alleged power and ascribed to them filthy moral and personal habits , was rare . |
| 19 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 20 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 21 | During the decade prior to the First World War there was some discussion of proposals for the state maintenance of children . |
| 22 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 23 | First , there had been the challenge posed by the calls for an international working-class opposition to the First World War . |
| 24 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 25 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 26 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 27 | The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ . |
| 28 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 29 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 30 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |