Example sentences of "of a war " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was greeted with some fury : ‘ It 's the beginning of a war , ’ said Fernand Daoust of the Quebec Federation of Labour . |
| 2 | Nervous about the prospect of a war , naturally . |
| 3 | Anger is now tempered by anxiety about the outcome of a war , but serious opposition to Mr Mubarak 's policy has not , so far , emerged . |
| 4 | The occupation of the West Bank was a result of a war launched by third parties . |
| 5 | He was a name , rank and number , his individuality merely an accident , irrelevant to the great machinery of a war between states , not persons . |
| 6 | A program on the synthesis of new antimalarial drugs was initiated at the National Institutes of Health in 1939 and formed the basis of a war program organized by the Committee on Medical Research of the Office of Scientific Research and Development , National Research Council . |
| 7 | Dulcie Howes first met him backstage at one of the performances , given in aid of a war charity . |
| 8 | Later on the 27th Eden established his version of a war Cabinet . |
| 9 | Many LDCs gained political independence in the 1960s and 1970s , sometimes at the end of a war which proved to be destructive in human and material terms , e.g. Algeria , Angola and Zimbabwe . |
| 10 | Could I really be part of a war machine ? |
| 11 | The Trap of a War with Religious Origins and the Escape Route |
| 12 | OR ANY other re-make of a war classic starring Richard ‘ John Boy Walton ’ Thomas . |
| 13 | Eastwood 's ice-eyed killer with a moral streak ( he never guns down anyone who does n't deserve it ) is also confronted here with the horrors of a war that makes his own death-strewn path seem comfortable . |
| 14 | ‘ It looked like something out of a war zone . |
| 15 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 16 | But in no Western country so far , other than in the years following the end of a war , has there been a major permanent reduction in the role of the state . |
| 17 | The experience of total war , and the construction of a war economy which transformed relationships between economic and political life , required , it seemed , no adaptation of the UDC 's original response to August 1914 — except a reaffirmation of the central panacea of Cobdenite pacifism : Free Trade . |
| 18 | The fear of precisely such pressure had played a part in persuading the Government not to push ahead too fast with the construction of a war economy . |
| 19 | Perhaps , though , it was all part of a war of nerves . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a bugger of a war , in n it ? |
| 21 | The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that . |
| 22 | It is not new laws that are required but enforcement of existing ones , she says.The International League is now calling for effective individual accountability for serious violations of the law and the creation of a war crimes tribunal . |
| 23 | Now the centre-piece of the ‘ new ’ , lush , grass , airfield , and serving as the ‘ Officers Mess ’ is a surviving building from the field 's brief ‘ other ’ life , a totally restored relic of a war that grows more and more a second-hand experience as every day ticks by . |
| 24 | Ebdon , 22 , faces the Scottish maestro in the fifth round of the £224,000 Dubai Duty Free Classic tomorrow declaring : ‘ I can beat him — this is the first battle of a war . |
| 25 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 26 | He was the first Phoenix King who did not inherit an unstable kingdom or take the throne in the aftermath of a war . |
| 27 | Although often unreliable , the weapons carried by the crew of a War Wagon are sufficiently varied that even if some of them malfunction , some of the others are bound to work . |
| 28 | Soldiers in search of a war |
| 29 | At the conclusion of a war there were invariably far too many officers for the reduced number of ships retained in commission , and interest was a great help in securing a place in one of them . |
| 30 | These gains were the by-products of a war fought mainly for reasons connected with the balance of power in Europe , but they were attractive enough to encourage the British to think about further involvement outside Europe . |