Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the moment the decision to go to war was taken in Washington in November , the UN really faded out of the picture . |
| 2 | He also expressed " deep remorse over the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted " by its " reckless " decision to go to war with the USA . |
| 3 | This was not quite a final decision to go to war , but when allied ships under Admiral Codrington moved into Navarino Bay on the south-western edge of the Peloponnese in October 1827 and , without having set out to do so , destroyed the fleet of the Sultan 's Egyptian forces , war became inevitable . |
| 4 | Archbishop Stratford maintained in 1341 that in March 1337 the king obtained the assent of parliament to go to war against Philip of France . |
| 5 | ‘ Fabulous lot of chaps to go to war with . |
| 6 | She was a good leader to go to war with . |
| 7 | He supported the French Revolution even more enthusiastically than Coleridge , and in 1793 bitterly opposed the willingness of Pitt 's government to go to war against the recently proclaimed French Republic . |
| 8 | When Thucydides spoke of the allies who urged Sparta to go to war , he was thinking of Corinth above all . |
| 9 | Prince of Wales to travel to war zone |