Example sentences of "war was [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie would put in a bit of news regarding how the war was affecting the supply of sweets . |
| 2 | Unhappily , the all-pervasive Vietnam War was upsetting the economy and draining away vital resources throughout the four years . |
| 3 | The war was going the way of neither side . |
| 4 | Perhaps conscious of this disadvantage , one of his first acts after the war was to internationalize the college of cardinals . |
| 5 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |