Example sentences of "after the [adj] [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | This took such forms as the praise of regionalism in the United States in the 1930s , Marxist criticism in London or New York , or Communist positions taken by Italian critics after the Second World War . |
| 2 | After the Second World War , for example , the photographer Alexander Liberman decided to visit the studios of artists who had contributed to a century of painting in France , painters and sculptors closely connected with the School of Paris . |
| 3 | A FUND standing at about £200,000 which was raised to give aid and comfort to homecoming British prisoners after the Second World War is alleged to be growing in direct proportion to the number of old soldiers dying without ever seeing a penny of it . |
| 4 | ONE OF the finest conductors of his generation , Witold Rowicki had the good fortune to play a central role in his country 's musical reconstruction after the Second World War . |
| 5 | Crossman left Lew to work for Jack Hylton and then , two days after the Second World War began , rejoined Ambrose . |
| 6 | Soon after the Second World War , in which he worked with ENSA ( or ‘ Every-Night-Something-Awful ’ , as he called it ) , he came to work for the music publishing firm of R. Smith and Co Ltd and served as editor of British Bandsman ( the brass band world 's leading newspaper since 1887 ) for 15 years . |
| 7 | The balance of payments in the period immediately after the Second World War can not be treated as a simple economic constraint , imposing inescapable policy responses . |
| 8 | He played his first match at the age of 17 for Gloucester in 1920 and continued until after the Second World War . |
| 9 | Thereafter Bobby Locke of South Africa and Peter Thomson of Australia dominated the British professional game alongside American entrants for the Open for twenty years after the Second World War . |
| 10 | These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War . |
| 11 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 12 | It also contains in the character of Colonel Calloway , the world-weary Englishman responsible for alerting the innocent American writer of pulp novels to his former friend 's evil doings , a perfect symbol of Britain 's position after the Second World War , standing in the middle between battered Europe and gung-ho America . |
| 13 | In East Berlin in October , in his speech marking the German Democratic Republic 's 40th anniversary , Mr Gorbachev reminded the world that the Soviet Union had advocated the preservation of German unity after the second world war . |
| 14 | Lord Home , the former Conservative prime minister , said if Mr Gorbachev 's reforms were to show results , an enormous programme of reconstruction on the scale of the Marshall Plan after the second world war would be required . |
| 15 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 16 | The nearest precedent is the extraordinarily generous Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Western Europe after the second world war . |
| 17 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 18 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 19 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 20 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 21 | Facing fiercer competition after the second world war , firms found that the fastest way to grow was to diversify . |
| 22 | With the advent of democracy after the second world war , however , Federconsorzi , like many of Italy 's state agencies , became a tool of party politics . |
| 23 | To his credit , Sir Thomas Beecham never put up with it ; nor did Karl Böhm , nor the Glyndebourne pioneers before and after the second world war . |
| 24 | Family allowances were , indeed , suggested as a necessary feature of such a policy and were , incidentally , provided for the second child and subsequent children after the Second World War . |
| 25 | To Catholics raised in the church immediately after the Second World War , as North was , Communism was the all-too-apparent enemy , the work of the devil . |
| 26 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 27 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 28 | It seems that one of Mme Huyghe 's predecessors put them there sometime after the Second World War and then forgot all about them . |
| 29 | The United Nations Organisation was set up in 1945 , just after the second world war , with the aim of keeping peace throughout the world . |
| 30 | She had been a nurse at St. Thomas 's Hospital in London and there exists a link with Chiswick in that St. Thomas 's had a sports ground in Chiswick until after the second world war , which was acquired by the local authority for housing purposes , and in her honour one of the roads was named ‘ Florence Close ’ . |