Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] war [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the First World War they would have simply been taken out and shot . ’ |
| 2 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 3 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 4 | The canal was never a commercial success , though it was made deeper after Telford 's death , but it is still open , and in the First World War it served the strategic purpose for which it had not been needed during the Napoleonic Wars : 70,000 mines were shipped through it , mainly by the U.S. Navy , to protect Allied merchant shipping against German U-boats . |
| 5 | Known throughout the Army world for his outstanding service as a chaplain in the First World War he was held in great affection and esteem . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 7 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 8 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 9 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 10 | In the Second World War he seems to have thought that 5 per cent would be a reasonable target for postwar policy . |