Example sentences of "war be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TENSION has returned to the Korean peninsula and warnings of war are filling the air . |
| 2 | However , at the same time , drought and war were threatening the country with renewed famine . |
| 3 | Larkin has told how Lawrence was one of his favourite novelists when he was young , along with Isherwood , Maugham and Waugh , and many in and after the Second World War were to ponder the strange , radical genius of famed humility of social origin and ambiguous political stance who had helped keep the realistic spirit alive and potent in an age when its intellectual prestige stood low . |
| 4 | This war is poisoning the world . |
| 5 | When war was declared the Works lost many young men to the armed forces . |
| 6 | Carrie would put in a bit of news regarding how the war was affecting the supply of sweets . |
| 7 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 8 | Unhappily , the all-pervasive Vietnam War was upsetting the economy and draining away vital resources throughout the four years . |
| 9 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 10 | The war was going the way of neither side . |
| 11 | Perhaps conscious of this disadvantage , one of his first acts after the war was to internationalize the college of cardinals . |
| 12 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |