Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] of hostilities " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of hostilities against Germany on 4 August 1914 , Wolverton companies F & G ( later under the four company system they became part of C & D companies ) were mobilised and the Battalion was formed complete at Aylesbury , before midnight . |
| 2 | At the cessation of hostilities in 1945 , the works got back to its pre-war role . |
| 3 | At the cessation of hostilities the ROA/KONR surrendered to American forces west of Prague . |
| 4 | At the close of hostilities that evening A.H.Q. Malta issued a communique stating that since the beginning of the fighting over the island , Malta 's defences had been credited with 132 destroyed , 44 probably destroyed and 58 damaged for the loss of 29 fighters , ten of the pilots having been saved . |
| 5 | At the end of hostilities all cars of this class were in need of a major overhaul . |
| 6 | Salisbury 's reaction at the end of hostilities was to seek security wherever it could be found . |
| 7 | Few Tories were quite as extreme as the Earl of Rochester , who at the renewal of hostilities in 1702 argued for a strictly limited naval war as the best way to check the power of France , and most recognised the need for some form of combined operations . |
| 8 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 9 | Built at the start of hostilities , facing the estuary , it was now used by playing children , courting couples , and the odd customers who , thanks to Knocker 's cider , had been taken short and decided not to risk trying to get home in time . |
| 10 | Ideally Nato required at least 30 or 40 divisions at the start of hostilities . |
| 11 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |