Example sentences of "war had " in BNC.
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| 1 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 2 | The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard , though his immediate family were spared its direct horrors . |
| 3 | The First World War had caused massive sociological repercussions . |
| 4 | French patriotism had been whipped Up through the antics of her revolutionary armies abroad , but the Russian Civil War had no effect of this kind . |
| 5 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 6 | In one sense international or even civil war had less disturbing effects on central administration , since the' had more clearly defined fronts than those of the Famine . |
| 7 | Military victory in the Civil War had been achieved by a heavy emphasis on combined political and military control from the centre , and this successful method was broadly reapplied in NEP to social life , despite the relaxation on the economic front . |
| 8 | Within six months , the war had receded from most people 's minds . |
| 9 | I did not know what ‘ cinema ’ was , it was one of those wonderful and unimaginable pleasures like La Semaine de Suzette and its doll Bleuette , which the war had taken away . |
| 10 | British air travel before the war had largely been in the hands of two companies , British Airways for European services and Imperial Airways for services further afield . |
| 11 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 12 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 13 | The war had its compensations . |
| 14 | Ryan chairman Conor McCarthy said the Gulf War had seriously disrupted travel to Ireland and the US tourist market had yet to recover , although bookings from the Irish , UK and Continental markets were strong . |
| 15 | Writing shortly after the end of the war , Roger Manvell spoke of a ‘ cinematic poetry peculiar to British films ’ while Dilys Powell suggested that the films made during the war had ‘ set the English film on the path in which masterpieces may be created . ’ |
| 16 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 17 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 18 | The apocalypse of the Cold War had been placed on the agenda . |
| 19 | Though it does not mean to , the one thing this exhibition actually proves is that new Parisian painting after Hitler 's war had no benefit ( except commercial good fortune ) from the surroundings of the new bohemia . |
| 20 | Mr Badran , who took office two weeks ago , said that martial law imposed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had been ‘ frozen ’ and would soon be formally scrapped . |
| 21 | After the UN Security Council vote on November 29th he was trapped by a timetable : war had to be fought after January 15th . |
| 22 | It was reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and lost equipment . |
| 23 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 24 | The Civil War had seen an outburst of religious fanaticism and the extremes of what was called ‘ enthusiasm ’ . |
| 25 | The war had come back , just like she knew it would . |
| 26 | The prisoners of war had left the fields and there were different people who now gathered for elevenses round the kitchen range . |
| 27 | The former view tends to ignore the fact that the Labour Party was deeply-rooted in trade-union politics before 1914 , while the latter overlooks the great potential which the war had for destroying old values and arrangements . |
| 28 | To Mosley , the war had brought an end to traditional party politics and had demonstrated the need fur central economic planning . |
| 29 | Suddenly the 180 million people loyal to Communism at the end of the war had turned into 800 million . |
| 30 | When he came out , Kahn was advancing the thesis that thermo-nuclear war had to be made into a practical proposition , because a totally disarmed world which renounced war was unbelievable . |