Example sentences of "[art] outbreak of [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On the outbreak of war the original components of the Peace Alliance and the Unity Campaign scattered in different directions . |
| 8 | The supporters do not consistently play some of the Club 's best players out of position to accommodate players so far past their sell-by date that if they were a tin of fish paste there 's be an outbreak of salmonella the length and breadth of Mersey Street ! |