Example sentences of "war [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vivid example even before the war began was the Jan. 7 report of six Iraqi helicopters landing in eastern Saudi Arabia in an apparent attempt to defect . |
| 2 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 3 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 4 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 5 | Military victory in the Civil War had been achieved by a heavy emphasis on combined political and military control from the centre , and this successful method was broadly reapplied in NEP to social life , despite the relaxation on the economic front . |
| 6 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 7 | The apocalypse of the Cold War had been placed on the agenda . |
| 8 | Mr Badran , who took office two weeks ago , said that martial law imposed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had been ‘ frozen ’ and would soon be formally scrapped . |
| 9 | As the forthright proponent of the ‘ destruction of European Jewry ’ , Hitler 's image was enhanced among a minority — though a growing and powerful minority — of the German population ( especially , though by no means exclusively , those ‘ organized ’ in the Nazi Movement and , presumably , those who already before the war had been active , whole-hearted Nazis and convinced ideological anti-Semites ) by his open association with extreme anti-Jewish measures . |
| 10 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 11 | Halfway along Na Příkopě a set of cut-out figures of Czechoslovakia 's rulers since the war had been erected along the top of a wall , with the largest figure in the centre — Stalin . |
| 12 | In a more combative address , which would have helped to win over the uncommitted vote , Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the shock therapy programme , said preconditions for rapid economic growth comparable to Western Europe after the 1939-45 War had been created . |
| 13 | In a more combative address , which would have helped to win over the uncommitted vote , Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the shock therapy programme , said preconditions for rapid economic growth comparable to Western Europe after the 1939-45 War had been created . |
| 14 | The Civil War had been fought in the main in the borderlands , precisely where the national question was at its most urgent . |
| 15 | While wandering in the Rockies on horseback in 1939 , he heard that war had been declared and returned home to join two of his brothers ( William and Hugh ) in the Scots Guards . |
| 16 | The voice was Coleridge 's , arguing that although the war had been costly to the rich , it had left them much ; ‘ but a PENNY taken from the pocket of a poor man might deprive him of a dinner ’ . |
| 17 | The war had been over a long time . |
| 18 | Long ago , the broad tactics for the next and final stage of this war had been decided ; all that remained were a host of small decisions and , of course , the normal government of his kingdom . |
| 19 | Philippa felt afraid as if war had been declared , suddenly and inappropriately , over the radio . |
| 20 | It was a shame that there was nothing from the boy 's mother , but then it was only Thursday and perhaps since war had been declared the post was being delayed . |
| 21 | Although the war had been over almost two years when Constance celebrated her eighteenth birthday in 1947 , life was by no means back to normal . |
| 22 | It seemed to her that the long war had been a form of imprisonment for the spirit as well as the body . |
| 23 | Of a sudden Joe was thankful that a war had been declared : Martin would join up and , because of his principles , he would n't then marry Miss Crosbie . |
| 24 | The fortress was rebuilt in 1896 and by the outbreak of war had been further improved to accord with its new function as the Austrian Army 's forward base against the Russians . |
| 25 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |
| 26 | The fear of the effects of war had been diminished by the quick struggles of the mid-century decades , but warfare was still known to be expensive and the Paris Commune had revived old fears that war might bring revolution . |
| 27 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 28 | The Company was not well organized , but even a strong company would have had difficulty resisting the attacks of the Dutch — now at the height of their power — on its forts in West Africa , which began before war had been declared in Europe . |
| 29 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 30 | In South Africa he came to the conclusion that the Boer War had been fought for the benefit of Jewish gold and diamond financiers , who were exploiting British imperialism for their own international purposes . |