Example sentences of "[be] world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coastguard spokesman said : ‘ These cylinders appear to be World War Two ordnance which had been dumped . |
| 2 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 3 | The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird . |
| 4 | Burton was in his Valhalla : a company largely of men , a chosen few , who could endure ancient and god-like debauches , sing old songs , recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk — while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid . |
| 5 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |