Example sentences of "going to war " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the deal to keep British filmmakers in business which Alexander Korda had proposed to government , and supported with his propaganda film , The Lion Has Wings ( 1939 ) , combining documentary footage with patriotic clips from earlier feature films and a contemporary narrative full of pontifications on Britain 's purpose in going to war . |
| 2 | Was it going to war ? |
| 3 | ‘ You 're going to war . ’ |
| 4 | In another story , between those concerning Abraham 's escapades in Egypt and Gerar , we find him going to war ( ch. |
| 5 | Nissan , having launched two attractive new models in the Primera , which replaces the Bluebird , and the new Sunny ( now called Pulsar ) , and having established a highly productive and effective factory in the north-east to make them , now seems to be attempting to undo all it has achieved by going to war with the key to successful sales , the dealer network . |
| 6 | As a very old colleague points out : ‘ It 's better than going to war over it . ’ |
| 7 | Going to war with cruise missiles would be precise , ruthless and utterly effective . |
| 8 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 9 | Going to court to resolve a dispute is rather like going to war . |
| 10 | Frustrations on a group scale may be explained in terms of the group finding release by going to war with its neighbours , or through a collective cathartic experience such as a ritual performance . |
| 11 | Soldiers going to war wear man-sized nappies under their armour because the fear of death will open the bowels , will do it every time . |
| 12 | England was going to war . |
| 13 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 14 | In addition , the cost of equipment and armour , the quality of which could vary considerably , added greatly to the expense of going to war . |
| 15 | In the meantime , in places like Poitou , noblemen tried to settle their disputes by going to war . |
| 16 | And they would be a coward for not going to war . |
| 17 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 18 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 19 | Sarah Benton explains why Britain is so keen on going to war |
| 20 | Going to war , said Bush , was America taking responsibility for the new world order . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish I was going to war . ’ |
| 22 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 23 | Since for most of his reign he avoided going to war , he hardly deserves the reputation for belligerence which contemporaries conferred on him . |
| 24 | His first memorandum began by indicting the government 's supposedly annexationist motives for going to war and went on to inveigh against the economic and cultural backwardness which the conflict had brought to light . |
| 25 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 26 | And so he said ‘ well , we have three sons , all of whom were going to war , and er so we would have room for three children . |