Example sentences of "war was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was the cold , the wet , standing to your neck in a drain for a whole night with bloodhounds on your trail , not knowing how you could manage the next step toward the end of a long march . |
| 2 | ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives . |
| 3 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 4 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 5 | The first Christmas of the War was the Christmas when everybody thought it would be over . |
| 6 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first action in the brief war was the battle of Llantada Plain on 19th July 1068 . |
| 10 | Like all the children born shortly after the Great War , we knew that to our parents , the war was the great divide . |
| 11 | One casualty of the war was the British Deaf & Dumb Association 's plans to celebrate its Jubilee year in 1940 . |
| 12 | War was the traditional occupation of this class . |
| 13 | The First World War was the first to touch civilians as well as combatants , and , for the first time , the British authorities were made conscious of the need to raise public morale . |
| 14 | All I materially knew of the war was the thick squat block of the air-raid shelter at the end of the garden which as a child I took over as my own little house . |
| 15 | It was only with enormous reluctance and great misgivings that even those most acutely aware of the evils of Nazism came to persuade themselves of what we , as beneficiaries of the Second World War , too often take for granted — that the catastrophe of another war was the lesser of two evils . |
| 16 | The First World War was the first to touch civilians as well as combatants , and , for the first time , the British authorities were made conscious of the need to raise public morale . |
| 17 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 18 | One of the most interesting phenomena of the war was the growth of the Hindenburg cult . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Almost certainly , however , the underlying cause of the war was the problem of Aquitaine . |
| 22 | In all these cases , war was the result of major changes in the development of societies . |
| 23 | The most lasting legacy of the war was the claim of the army officers to rule the state . |
| 24 | The outbreak of war was the emergency and a centrally-funded national service came into being . |
| 25 | I have heard it said that the only major advance in stratigraphy and sedimentology since the Second World War was the concept of the turbidity current . |
| 26 | War was the greatest single factor in the international history of eighteenth-century Europe . |
| 27 | In which war was the balaclava first worn ? |
| 28 | The Spanish Civil War was the result of the collapse of political and social coexistence among Spaniards ; and , in turn , fashioned subsequent political developments , inside each of the opposing war zones which emerged in the summer of 1936 , between them , and between them and the outside world . |
| 29 | To a large extent , from the summer of 1937 onwards , the war was the military confirmation of that fact . |
| 30 | However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition . |