Example sentences of "of war the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A month after the outbreak of war the Bishop of Durham , A. T. P. Williams , wrote in his lovely handwriting a letter sounding Ramsey whether he would become the professor of divinity at the university of Durham . |
| 2 | Though in the event of war the Royal Air Force would unquestionably be able to take a heavy toll of enemy bombers , a proportion would inevitably get through . |
| 3 | Safer ground had to be found and in any case with the coming of war the Progressive demands were being replaced by new constraints . |
| 4 | In time of war the presence of a king on campaign was an asset to be exploited . |
| 5 | After an arduous five-year apprenticeship in the disciplines of war the twenty-one-year-old Duke had produced his masterpiece . |
| 6 | Systematic collections were made from peers and from the City ; by the outbreak of war the invested funds amounted to $671,000 — twice the sum in 1911 and worth four years " expenditure — and there was a special cash deposit of £120,000 for the coming election . |
| 7 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
| 8 | The kind of war the Tyrant , Tsao Ch'un , taught us how to fight . ’ |
| 9 | In the context of war the fusion was to be explosive . |
| 10 | With the declaration of war the Cubist painters , many of whom had begun to grow apart artistically , were physically separated , and the movement rapidly broke up . |
| 11 | In time of war the proportion was probably as high as one in eight . |
| 12 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |
| 13 | On the outbreak of war the Iraqi army , including recalled reservists , numbered some 955,000 , of whom 620,000 were estimated to be committed to the Kuwaiti theatre of operations ( however , post-war evaluation called seriously into question initial Western intelligence estimates and it was suggested that the figure was nearer 300,000 ) . |
| 14 | Although the land tax assessment could at times be stretched to include houses , windows , servants , hair powder , non-working horses , carriages and playing cards , and although in times of war the 10 per cent peacetime limit was pushed twice as far , there was no fundamental revaluation and in many parts of the country assessment levels were nominal . |
| 15 | Boys and girls , And women that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect 's leg , all read of war The best amusement of our morning meal ! |
| 16 | Just before the outbreak of war the British diplomatic and consular services numbered only 446 in all , and of these fewer than 150 were career diplomats . |
| 17 | With the outbreak of war the ILP put itself in opposition to the trade-union leaders by its refusal to support the war and by its criticism of those Labour Party members who either joined the government after 1916 or gave it their loyal parliamentary support . |
| 18 | The Labour Party took no action against the Club , and with the coming of war the Communist sympathies of the Club 's leaders rapidly disappeared . |
| 19 | On the outbreak of war the original components of the Peace Alliance and the Unity Campaign scattered in different directions . |