Example sentences of "[noun] war the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the Falklands War the Department of Trade and Industry began to build a small strategic stockpile of its own . |
| 2 | During the recent Gulf war the religious police here lost a lot of their power because of having to lift restrictions when other armies from various countries were here . |
| 3 | During the Seven Years War the Austrian army is said to have lost over 62,000 men in this way , that of France about 70,000 , and that of Prussia about 80,000 . |
| 4 | ( b ) There can be no doubt that as a result of the Boer War the 20th century in England , opened in a sense of national doubt . |
| 5 | With the Second World War the system started to creak . |
| 6 | After the Second World War the economic prosperity brought by the long postwar boom , and the apparent popularity of the Attlee government 's welfare reforms , allowed the paternalist orientations of Eden , Butler , and Macmillan to flourish , attenuated by the ‘ stops ’ forced by Britain 's ongoing balance-of-payments problem . |
| 7 | Before the First World War the impact of the new colonial governments on this pattern of agriculture was extremely limited . |
| 8 | After the Second World War the comfortable , leisured life cushioned with a decent income from stocks and shares was hit both by inflation and the liquidation of Britain 's foreign assets . |
| 9 | After the Second World War the pottery moved to Tingewick , the Keyes family house , where it continues under the aegis of Phyllis 's great-niece , Sara Johnson . |
| 10 | Since the Second World War the motor industry has gone on and on growing , undeterred even by two oil shocks which sent the price of petrol soaring . |
| 11 | The industrial-chemicals division gives a host of reasons why it should stay with ICI : synergies with other parts of the group ; benefits from research ( after the second world war the by-products from the dyestuffs industry became , by chance , raw materials for the pharmaceuticals business ) ; the strength of the ICI name ; and so on . |
| 12 | During the second world war the plant kept 19,000 people busy ( assembling , among other things , Barnes Wallis 's bouncing bombs for the dam-busters ) . |
| 13 | A paediatrician 's son , Harry Neubauer was born in 1932 at Karlsbad , Germany , but during the Second World War the family found refuge in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 14 | Thus , the 1784 election led to 17 unbroken years of Pitt as prime minister ; after the First World War the coalition stayed on in name but the Conservatives won 335 seats in 1918 ; Churchill 's Great Coalition presaged the Labour landslide of 1945 and the iniquities of the Lib-Lab Pact were a major factor in Mrs Thatcher 's victory in 1979 . |
| 15 | During the Second World War the island was invaded by the Axis powers and , after Marshal Badoglio 's armistice with the Allies in September 1943 , thousands of Italians were killed and captured by the Germans . |
| 16 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 17 | During the Second World War the house was empty until taken by an elderly lady , Mrs Fullerton , whose son was grown up . |
| 18 | The Damianis had bought the decrepit domed buildings from the Jaffa municipality and for several decades after the First World War the name of Damiani was proudly displayed in English and Arabic over the vaulted gateway where Turkish pashas once administered the law . |
| 19 | Since the First World War the railways in the developed world have been in decline , their role usurped by motor transport and in particular the car . |
| 20 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 21 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 22 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 23 | By the time of the First World War the company had taken over more than 50 small companies , as well as the docks at Hull ( q.v. ) , and its chief locomotive and wagon works at Doncaster employed nearly 5,000 people . |
| 24 | Between the wars the Longhorn became valued for its large size and late maturity but after the Second World War the fashion in Britain swung to smaller , earlier maturing breeds . |
| 25 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |
| 26 | Since the Second World War the Sussex has become a stronger colour-marker , much neater of shoulder than the powerful draught type of old , shorter in the leg and better in the hindquarters , and it still produces lean , marbled meat , especially in the prime cuts . |
| 27 | The Danes are traditional dairy cattle breeders , but since the Second World War the dairy herds have followed the British trend towards fewer , larger units and a certain amount of land has become available for beef-rearing on a minor scale . |
| 28 | After the First World War the town thrived briefly , but in later decades achieved a near-dormitory state , having been discovered by couples wishing to retire from the frenetic life in the larger urban conurbations . |
| 29 | During the Second World War the Germans used coal gasification to make syn-gas which was then used to make oil in a process developed by two chemists named Fischer and Tropsch . |
| 30 | Since the Second World War the family has entered the international arena by its contributions to multi-racial education in Africa , by establishing the International Students ' House in London for students from overseas , and by founding the Michael Wills Scholarships at Oxford University to replace the Rhodes Scholarships which had been discontinued for Germans in 1939 . |