Example sentences of "[noun] of war was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the essential conservatism of UDC thinking is revealed in the fact that , apart from a footnote on women 's suffrage , the only addition made to a platform written within weeks of the outbreak of war was a commitment to the defence of free trade . |
| 2 | The immediate reason for the outbreak of war was the French king 's confiscation of the Duchy of Aquitaine on the ground that Edward was harbouring Robert of Artois , a rebellious vassal of the French king who had fled to England in 1336 after being condemned as a traitor . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war was the emergency and a centrally-funded national service came into being . |
| 4 | The initial public response to the outbreak of war was an upsurge of patriotic fervour , at any rate among the middle and upper classes : the Kadet leadership in the Duma called for a political truce and national unity against the common enemy . |
| 5 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 6 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |