Example sentences of "[adj] military [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi 's policy of unlimited universal military service was one element in his plan to educate Libyans to nationhood and socialism . |
| 2 | Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background , therefore , of Osred 's reign . |
| 3 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 4 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 5 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 6 | Direct English military intervention was now necessary if the duchy were not to collapse into chaos . |
| 7 | Similarly , British military expenditure was not generated by any desire to end unemployment . |
| 8 | The high point in medieval military architecture was achieved by an iron chain of fortresses built by King Edward I to emphasize his hold over the native Welsh . |
| 9 | On any reckoning James of St George 's achievement in the field of medieval military architecture was outstanding . |
| 10 | Nor was such repression restricted to the formerly conflict-ridden south , for even in less socially divided regions like Navarre and Mallorca , where actual military campaigning was non-existent , political executions numbered thousands . |
| 11 | Both sides fought till nearly their entire military strength was spent . |
| 12 | ‘ As soon as this central military power was removed , ethnic violence erupted . |
| 13 | An unusual military demo was the US Army 's flarecopter . |
| 14 | Even opportunities to serve , without rank or pay , as a volunteer , could be elusive , and even previous military experience was of little assistance , as Lieutenant Callander discovered when he attempted to rejoin the army as a volunteer in a regiment about to embark for India . |
| 15 | This compromise with Vichy in the interests of a quick military success was too blatant for de Gaulle ( or indeed for many British and American officials ) to stomach . |
| 16 | When the uneasy initial co-operation of the authorities was broken by the oath to Joseph ( April 1809 ) Duhesme 's corrupt military government was served by Casanova : a profiteer in identity cards , ransoms , and municipal marketing , an adventurer with a mistress and a mansion , he became one of the richest , as well as the most powerful man , in occupied Barcelona . |
| 17 | Increased military spending was announced by Finance Minister Abdul Magid Osman in his 1990 budget speech to the People 's Assembly on Dec. 16 , 1989 . |
| 18 | A major military reshuffle was carried out on Sept. 9 involving 557 senior officers down to the level of colonel . |
| 19 | The forced abdication of King Moshoeshoe II by the ruling Military Council was effectively completed with the swearing-in on Nov. 12 of his 27-year-old eldest son , Prince Mohato Bereng Seeisa , as King Letsie III . |
| 20 | the gigantic military effort was sucking out of the economy , not only surplus products , but the very means of replacing means of production and means of consumption . |
| 21 | The hitherto important military department was to be dissolved completely and replaced by an advisory committee subject to the direct control of the politburo . |
| 22 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 23 | It took the English eleven days to discover where they were ; they planned an attack on the encampment , but were dissuaded and the only military action was a surprise move by the Earl of Douglas against the English camp . |
| 24 | When Captain J. Michael Calvert RE arrived with Colonel Mawhood and the schoolmaster explorer , Captain F. Spencer Chapman , in Australia in November 1940 , this small military mission was to teach methods of training ‘ a new variety of soldier ’ : the commando . |
| 25 | Necessity sometimes drove half-pay officers to seek a commission in an active battalion even when they had attained such an advanced age that any chance of a successful military career was long over . |
| 26 | He took with him Eadwine 's son , Eadfrith ( HE 11 , 20 ) , thereby retaining an interest in the royal succession among the Deirans , but his immediate military involvement was over . |
| 27 | The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 28 | On April 16 a leading Amal military official was assassinated in Beirut ; Hezbollah was blamed and the next day Hezbollah-Amal street fighting erupted , leaving two dead and 42 wounded . |
| 29 | By the middle of 1917 the Allied military situation was grave . |
| 30 | While the debate about possible military intervention was going on , Prince Napoleon , through the intermediary of a Prussian friend , got a message to Bismarck saying that : |