Example sentences of "during the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mexico , during the Wars of Independence the Virgin of Guadalupe protected the nationalist forces while the Spaniards placed their trust in the Virgen de los Remedios . |
| 2 | He had in fact saved the lands and life of Sir Thomas , who was charged with supplying money to Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses and had thus infuriated the king . |
| 3 | During the Wars of the Roses Roger Chatwin fled to the hills with the infant son of Lord Clifford of Skipton Castle to save the child from certain death at the hands of the Yorkists . |
| 4 | During the Wars of the Roses each party appointed leading magnates to the principal Forest offices during their periods of ascendancy . |
| 5 | In each case the land has been exploited far beyond its true potential — out of dire necessity during the Wars , and now for blind greed and short-term gain resulting in vast surpluses which can not be eaten or sold . |
| 6 | During the wars with France at the turn of the nineteenth century , when the call came , more than 2,000 Highlanders volunteered for service with the colours . |
| 7 | The infirmary and stables had become dilapidated during the wars , having been occupied by enemy cavalry , and were empty . |
| 8 | The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles . |
| 9 | Elsewhere in England , during the Wars of the Roses , it saw a reversion to murder , violence and a demand for a new type of lordship . |
| 10 | Under Cromwell 's Interregnum Sussex remained fairly peaceable , the only real intrusion being the Dutch attacks on coastal towns during the wars of the 1650s , and this was nothing new . |
| 11 | In Lewes , as in many other Sussex towns , the patriotism of the Bonfire displays , heightened during the wars with France , could spill easily over into a week of repeated apprentice riots , with the participants throwing bricks through the windows of unpopular employers or threatening personal violence and arson . |
| 12 | The price for such loyalty , though , was high and Stamford was later ruined during the Wars of the Roses . |
| 13 | The necessary correlative , particularly amongst liberals , before and during the wars was caution about threatening the social order ; it would also mark a form of corruption in the Christian dynamic of antislavery . |
| 14 | The Isles of the North suffered most during the Wars of the Sundering . |
| 15 | It followed , therefore , that most of the military appointments to which Scottish freeholders and burgh councillors aspired were in the line infantry and to a lesser degree the cavalry , augmented during the wars with France at the turn of the century with numerous local military units of a temporary nature . |
| 16 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 17 | The words used by Froissart to express his aim in writing his great chronicle , ‘ that the honourable enterprises , noble adventures and deeds of arms which took place during the wars waged by France and England should be fittingly related and preserved for posterity ’ , fit admirably into the pattern of thought and practice which regarded war as a noble way of life . |
| 18 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 19 | War disablement pensions remain payable to those disabled during the wars , and they carry a range of additional allowances similar to those under the industrial injuries scheme . |
| 20 | A generally swampy land without significant natural resources , Belorussia suffered greatly during the wars between Russia and Poland , and then again during the Napoleonic invasion and World Wars I and II . |
| 21 | The sums so entrusted made them a power among London houses subscribing to public loans , particularly during the wars of 1744–63 . |
| 22 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 23 | The firm prospered markedly during the wars of 1689–1713 when Crowley was a major supplier of ironware to the navy . |
| 24 | When he was murdered during the Wars of the Roses only the choir had been built ; later the ante-chapel was added and together they formed College Chapel . |
| 25 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 26 | They fought at Agincourt and Crécy , during the Wars of the Roses and the Civil War . |
| 27 | That did not solve the problem of those places on the disc which , during the wars , had suffered a direct hit by a spell . |
| 28 | During the Wars of Independence , which began in 1297 , Rothesay was remote enough to survive largely unscathed . |
| 29 | Bothwell Castle , Uddingston , is the largest and finest 13th-century stone castle in Scotland , much fought over during the Wars of Independence . |
| 30 | During the wars themselves there had been considerable disruption , but by 1785 trade had fully recovered . |