Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , the Middle Ages accepted war with fatalism . |
| 2 | He led his small Bolshevik party in a St Petersburg putsch in October 1917 which triggered a four-year civil war . |
| 3 | A North-South cold war formula is unlikely to command the same kind of broad domestic support , even though for the time being , the parties of the Left are supporting the war , at least in the United States and Western Europe . |
| 4 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 5 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 6 | On the outbreak of the South African War on 12 September 1899 , 86 members of the Wolverton company volunteered and saw active service . |
| 7 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 8 | Among her other political activities , she sympathised with the Boers and visited St. Helena when it was used to house prisoners from the South African War . |
| 9 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |
| 10 | His book on the South African War — which placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Johannesburg mineowners and their cosmopolitan financial backers — was widely distributed by the pro-Boer movement . |
| 11 | Capitalizing on the alarm in official circles , the BMJ complained that military chiefs had still not learnt the terrible lessons of the South African war . |
| 12 | In the same year he joined the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant and served in the South African war . |
| 13 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 14 | Educated at Haileybury and Trinity College , Cambridge , Edward Maitland volunteered for service in the South African war while he was still an undergraduate . |
| 15 | He missed the South African war , as he was serving in south Asia . |
| 16 | And he said he 'd had a whiskies and he was down by the station and he said he jumped on the train and he landed up in De Detroit , and then the South African War broke out |
| 17 | and he left America and he came home and joined up and went to the South Af South African War . |
| 18 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 19 | But they after they had finished , they the South African war and things was before then was n't it . |
| 20 | Well I remember the South African war too . |
| 21 | Well I remember the South African war . |
| 22 | That was discovered especially during the South African war , when a number of university graduates were commissioned and sent out to South Africa , and it was found that they singularly lacked an ability to act in an officer capacity . |
| 23 | Their discussion of what the press ‘ should be and do ’ reflects an East — West Cold War divide and they set out ideal , polar positions so as to highlight differences . |
| 24 | The conference will deal with five major themes : international news in the post cold war era ; waves versus wires — the future of mobile communications ; changing structures for broadcasting and telecommunications ; competition and quality — serving the public ; and electronic education . |
| 25 | Perhaps the only heartening aspect of the whole Gulf conflict has been the way that in the post Cold War age , there has been a sustainable coalition of western and eastern states determined to prevent Saddam profiting from his attack on Kuwait . |
| 26 | As we near the end of the 20th century our horizons must extend well beyond our own national frontiers , to our new relationships which are developing fast in the European Community and to our obligations and opportunities in the exciting , but often perilous circumstances of the post Cold War world . |
| 27 | In very recent years holy war has been fought between Iran and Iraq , and with a ruthlessness that has at times , with the use of chemical weapons for example , offended international codes of conduct . |
| 28 | ‘ What s filthy war it is , ’ Richards said . |
| 29 | The October 1973 war was the result of Egyptian-Soviet efforts to change the balance in the Middle East , but it was the United States which became the prime beneficiary . |
| 30 | UN Special Representative , Gunnar Jarring , and the US Secretary of State , William Rogers , both made it the foundation of their peace efforts before their failure led to the October 1973 war . |