Example sentences of "of [art] war [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages of the war things went much as the Japanese had planned . |
| 2 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 3 | To destroy them is one of the war aims , and that means that the fabric , the infrastructure , of your cities is being gutted . |
| 4 | The following two cases illustrate some of the work of the War Pensions Officer and the Area Welfare Officers : |
| 5 | On behalf of the war times |
| 6 | The diverse areas covered include : the songs of Robert Burns , the politics of pre-revolutionary Russia , the political leaders of the Weimar Republic , the Atlantic slave trade , the Treasury and Health Policy in Scotland in the early 20th Century , the New Age Movement , the philosophy of law , the Japanese and the Jesuits , medieval German literature and culture , photographic archive of the War memorials in Europe , and violence on television . |
| 7 | Unfortunately we did n't have room to include the complete rules for war machines and chariots as they appear in the Warhammer rulebook , but you will find a summary for them at the end of the War Machines section . |
| 8 | Taxes to the government , taxes which were particularly high in this period , because it 's the period of the war lords , the period of the civil wars , the period of the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party , high levels of war taxation throughout this period . |
| 9 | The horrible details of the 1914–18 war undoubtedly serve to heighten the poignancy of this feeling , and the creative energy of the war poets evokes its own sense of loss for a stable life snatched away , amidst ‘ the shrill , demented choir of wailing shells ’ . |
| 10 | By the end of the war numbers had increased to 458 , which included 60 in the recently re-housed Junior School , the success of which was indicated by the 136 candidates for the 28 vacancies at the previous Entrance Examination . |
| 11 | Founded after the war with de Gaulle 's blessing , its official brief was to recreate a national consensus and rekindle public faith in the Press which the collaborationist ‘ newspapers ’ of the war years had almost extinguished . |
| 12 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 13 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 14 | Only during the 1960s did it become generally appreciated that the cosy ‘ special relationship ’ of the war years and of the period of Oliver Franks 's distinguished tenure at the Washington embassy in 1948–52 had changed , and to Britain 's disadvantage . |
| 15 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 16 | Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years . |
| 17 | The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums . |
| 18 | The imbalance , however , should soon disappear as the adult survivors of the war years die naturally . |
| 19 | Some Sri Lankans were able to take advantage of employment opportunities brought about by increased government expenditure , but the high inflation rate of the war years cut the standard of living of many Sri Lankans . |
| 20 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 21 | During the summer months of the war years , Ackroyd watched the boy playing in the meadow beside the line . |
| 22 | Farmers now suffered from inflation caused by the industrial boom of the war years . |
| 23 | And many of us still remember that among the food shortages of the war years and after , the scarcity of fresh tomatoes was a privation on the same level as the lack of lemons , onions and butter . |
| 24 | Those of us who remember the food shortages of the war years and after learned the lesson the hard way . |
| 25 | It is ironical that one of the most beneficial developments of the war years , the Representation of the People Act of 1918 , should have occasioned so much party opposition . |
| 26 | These were mostly dealt with from 1800 onwards as the high prices of the war years brought more and more marginal land into cultivation . |
| 27 | From the interruption of the war years the monasteries never recovered : their buildings had been stripped , their recruitment impeded , their incomes dilapidated . |
| 28 | He remembered the proud , fearless Sylvie of the war years , the seductive Sylvie on her many stages , feeding off her music and the eyes directed at her , and giving back amply in return . |
| 29 | The FSU was founded in 1947 , and was based on the experience of the Pacifist Service Units , which had helped families who were overwhelmed by the destruction , separation , chaos and strain of the war years to cope and re-establish themselves . |
| 30 | First we consider the demands for renewal and redevelopment , as expressed at the very beginning of the war years . |