Example sentences of "during the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first opium war ( 1840–2 ) , after Hong Kong was occupied by the British expedition , Matheson purchased for his firm the first plots of land offered for sale on the island . |
| 2 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 3 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 4 | Continental strategy was uppermost during Marlborough 's campaigns in the war of the Spanish Succession in the eighteenth century and during the First World War , though Britain 's maritime effort was far from insignificant . |
| 5 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |
| 6 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 7 | As indicated above , at one extreme , some believe that its emergence was entirely due to the internecine conflict of the Liberal Party during the First World War , occasioned by David Lloyd George 's replacement of Asquith as Prime Minister in 1916 . |
| 8 | Most obviously , its rising trade-union support ensured that it was to become the party of the working class , a process which was speeded up by the split within the Liberal Party during the First World War . |
| 9 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 10 | Its manifestation , in neutral Switzerland during the First World War , rapidly spread through post-war Europe as a declaration of personal freedom . |
| 11 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 12 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 13 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 14 | During the First World War , Radek of the Polish party and the Left abstained on national questions ; ‘ Social Democracy does not advocate either an erection of new boundary posts in Europe nor the re-erection of those which have been torn down by imperialism ’ . |
| 15 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
| 16 | Taking into account Syria 's losses in military service and imprisonment under ill-treatment , the country may have lost half a million of its people during the First World War out of a population of well under four million . |
| 17 | Harrison and his team at Rochester Row did much of the pioneer work on Salvarsan and their discoveries were used with great benefit during the First World War . |
| 18 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 19 | Loch Doon was jilted during the First World War ; there were plans to build an important sea-plane base there , but after the expenditure of some £500,000 , the ill-conceived scheme was abandoned . |
| 20 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 21 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 22 | During the First World War , women were employed for the first time , resulting from Manager Furness ' refusal to employ any able-bodied man eligible for military service . |
| 23 | During the First World War , of course , Flanders was transformed into one huge battlefield and the effect on the cattle population was devastating . |
| 24 | It was restarted and , with the break during the First World War , flourished until 1920 . |
| 25 | During the first World War Hamilton served with the Coldstream Guards ( he stood just on 6ft ) and he spent the latter part of his service at Caterham Barracks from where he signed for Palace when he was ‘ demobbed ’ in December 1922 . |
| 26 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 27 | The inter-urban trams suffered badly from unlicensed competition during the First World War . |
| 28 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 29 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 30 | Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics . |