Example sentences of "war [adj] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the outbreak of the Second World War this was a continuous built-up area . |
| 2 | Anstruther , which until the outbreak of World War II was the major East Coast herring fishing base , now houses the Scottish Fisheries Museum in period buildings near the water 's edge . |
| 3 | World War II was an important factor in the emergence of the two black athletes who , according to Mel Watman , ranked alongside Roger Bannister in terms of national popularity . |
| 4 | Goering did not fly , and Hitler 's first attempt at starting World War 11 was a failure . |
| 5 | The firearm of the infantry soldier of World War I was the bolt-action rifle , and the rifles of all the armies were fundamentally much the same . |
| 6 | One of the most successful machine-guns of World War I was the American designed , air-cooled , drum-fed Lewis . |
| 7 | P&O 's first and worst single disaster during World War Two was the sinking of Rawalpindi on November 23 , 1939 . |