Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] war [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese Foreign Minister , Qian Qichen , became the most senior official to visit Vietnam since the 1979 border war when he arrived in Hanoi from Phnom Penh , the Cambodian capital , on Feb. 12 for a four-day visit . |
| 2 | Their position as outsiders was not transformed until the outbreak of the Second World War when it was Chamberlain 's ardent supporters , the ‘ appeasers ’ who became the outsiders and the ‘ guilty men ’ . |
| 3 | He was succeeded by F. W. Anderson who acted as palaeontologist in Edinburgh until 1953 except for the period of the Second World War when he was in the army . |
| 4 | The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East . |
| 5 | And certainly during the Second World War where they kept things going an and could prove that they were as good as any man . |
| 6 | But I promised earlier in my speech that I would mention service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War where he rose to the rank of Sergeant . |
| 7 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |
| 9 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |