Example sentences of "after the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
| 2 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 3 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 4 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 5 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 6 | There were frequent rowdy incidents as these gangs of travelling supporters descended on a town for an away match , especially after the First World War when the struggle for Irish independence was at its height . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 8 | It was self-consciously a reversal of the Versailles policy , after the first world war , of exacting war reparations from the defeated . |
| 9 | Most of the Habsburg successor states , as the Czech historian Zbynek Zeman reminded us in his vivid modern history of the region ( Pursued By A Bear : Chatto ) , were invented to serve the interests of the Western allies after the first world war , as a hedge against German expansion eastwards and a firebreak against the spread of revolution west from Russia . |
| 10 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 11 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 12 | After the First World War — the war to end all wars — hopes of a better world had rested upon the creation of the League of Nations , headed by the United States . |
| 13 | Firms can easily dissipate their first-mover advantages , as Henry Ford did after the first world war by sacking many of his best senior managers . |
| 14 | After the first world war , most states in central and eastern Europe got more or less democratic constitutions . |
| 15 | But their best opportunity for independence came , and went , soon after the first world war , when Britain and France were carving up the defunct Ottoman empire . |
| 16 | He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War . |
| 17 | Otto von Habsburg , the Habsburg heir and now a Euro-MP for Bavaria , argues that Hitler 's National Socialists would never have gained power if the Weimar Republic had adopted the British voting system after the First World War . |
| 18 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 19 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 20 | Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War . |
| 21 | Shortly after the First World War , the mill ceased operating commercially , although it is said locally , that it was still used occasionally for the production of animal feed . |
| 22 | It continued , in sometimes sporadic use , until shortly after the First World War , one of the last references coming in 1921 . |
| 23 | The Damianis had bought the decrepit domed buildings from the Jaffa municipality and for several decades after the First World War the name of Damiani was proudly displayed in English and Arabic over the vaulted gateway where Turkish pashas once administered the law . |
| 24 | There were some departures from the norm : just after the First World War several tour operators organized trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium . |
| 25 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 26 | These had expanded in intensity after the First World War , with extensive housing development in the areas served . |
| 27 | Five hundred people were employed by the company in the mid-nineteenth century , but after various changes in ownership , the Coalport business was moved to Staffordshire after the First World War , though the name was retained and the firm continued to prosper . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , Roberts describes a way of life before and after the First World War which is quite fascinating and now , obviously , long past . |
| 29 | Regular air services , by aeroplane , did not start until after the First World War . |
| 30 | Yet Israel occupies less than a quarter of the mandatory territory controlled by Britain after the first world war . |