Example sentences of "war had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , whilst the origins of the Cold War had principally been found within Europe tension was always apparent elsewhere . |
| 2 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 3 | If the reason for resorting to war had traditionally been to achieve territorial conquests , to obtain markets and raw materials , or to overthrow leaders of whom one did not approve , then the events of the First World War offered a corrective . |
| 4 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 5 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 6 | By then , the war had again reached stalemate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since the war had massively increased the productive potential and economic power of the largest corporations , these institutions , as an economic elite , come increasingly to dominate the legislative and , eventually , the executive branches of government . |
| 9 | In a more combative address , Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the shock therapy programme , said preconditions for rapid economic growth comparable to western Europe after the 1939-45 war had already been created . |
| 10 | Eliot , as was to be expected , was particularly interested in the kind of propaganda we were putting out to Germany and Italy : for the propaganda war had already begun and was intensifying . |
| 11 | The initial outbreak of war had already taken around 3 million b/d out of the world supply/ demand equation . |
| 12 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 13 | Perhaps part of the answer lies in the fact that much of the new technology which had been developed before and during the war had already been incorporated into the capital stock . |
| 14 | This was the year in which war had just been declared and was a time of great worry and foreboding . |
| 15 | The War was over , Rutherford split the atom on 3 January 1919 , and the workers ' war had just begun . |
| 16 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 17 | ‘ When he came to see them , Anna and my mother , the first time in London , 1914 , the war had just begun , Anna had some rather good Sauternes on the table . |
| 18 | It was a disappointment not having children , but there were millions of couples who did n't have children , and of course there were far worse things than that , as the war had just displayed . |
| 19 | The aim of the war had also shifted emphasis from being against the threat of the Roman Catholicism and the excessive power of Charles I. It was now being directed more against the monarchy itself and the power of the bishops . |
| 20 | This civil war had also created bitter feelings on the West Bank , but an eventual return to Jordanian rule was expected . |
| 21 | The Cold War had effectively decided what was to be done with Germany . |
| 22 | Hence , the First World War had simply been dysfunctional . |
| 23 | The war had truly gone full circle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard , though his immediate family were spared its direct horrors . |
| 26 | ‘ To listen to some officers in this army one would think that no other war had ever been fought but in Spain ! |
| 27 | As the historian of the university puts it : " The war had amply proved the value to the community of men and women trained in the university as leaders , scientists and technicians . " |
| 28 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 29 | Day after day , in military exercises , scenarios , games of espionage and hostile rhetoric , both sides behaved as though the second world war had never ended . |
| 30 | The war years had certainly elevated their position , but this was to be only temporary , and at the end of the 17th Century women were as badly off as if the war had never happened , worse in fact because their position declined after the war . |