Example sentences of "aftermath [prep] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the aftermath of the first oil shock , however , there was a greater tendency for OPEC countries to diversify their assets into traditionally strong currencies such as the Deutschmark and Swiss franc , a move which effectively boosted the international value of these currencies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The 69-year-old photograph shows him arriving in Beirut in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 4 | There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 5 | In the aftermath of the First World War Germany was forbidden to rearm until restrictions were relaxed in 1926 and airship construction began again . |
| 6 | The main attempt to tackle the issue of bombing , the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare , is an admirable and detailed interpretation of customary rules and general principles of the laws of war , but it was never adopted by states in legally binding form — partly because of the belief , widely held in the aftermath of the First World War that the important thing was to prevent war altogether , rather than to devise rules for how it might be conducted . |
| 7 | In the aftermath of the First World War , many skilled British craftsmen were out of work . |
| 8 | Arising in the aftermath of the First World War , it took the view that disasters are due partly to failures of understanding and partly to the lack of suitable institutions to encourage cooperation . |
| 9 | International Relations emerged as a separate discipline in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 10 | It is hardly surprising that in the aftermath of the First World War , when there was a rising current of anti-militarism , the Boy Scout Association felt it necessary to issue a disclaimer in 1920 : ‘ Our Scouting has nothing to do with SOLDIERING ; it is merely the practice of backwoodsmanship … |
| 11 | They might have precipitated a split between moderate and radical wings of the labour movement comparable to that which proved so critical to the stabilization of the West in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 12 | Great new cover treatment for this family saga of struggling siblings in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 13 | This circle of writers and intellectuals did not confine themselves to their own particular pursuits , for the West Indies was going through a period of great political change in the aftermath of the First World War . |