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 | The war had not been necessary at all , and could have been prevented . |
| 10 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 11 | Some of the men who came in late in the war had not joined up until after the older prisoners had been shot down . |
| 12 | That three and a half years changed my life completely and set my feet on paths which they would never have taken if the war had not occurred . |
| 13 | But the war had not finally been won when , on 25 October 1760 , George II died suddenly , a venerable 76 , of a heart attack , ‘ in the greatest period , ’ as Horace Walpole wrote , ‘ of the glory of his country and of his reign ’ . |
| 14 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 15 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 16 | The reclaiming of the trade by the men was nevertheless to become a permanent reality , as an editorial in The Vote had correctly predicted.73 It is possible that if the war had not intervened , the men would in any case have been able to secure the prolonging of the ban on women beyond June 1916 . |
| 17 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 18 | But Hannibal 's wars with Rome brought down the devastating armies of the empire , and what war had not spoiled , the mosquito finished off . |
| 19 | He did not mention the future of Saddam Hussein , but did take the opportunity to restate his earlier assertion that the war had not been conducted against the Iraqi people as a whole . |
| 20 | The experience of war had not left him . |
| 21 | For most people in England the war had n't yet begun . |
| 22 | The war had n't seemed to touch the house , that is until the morning a lady arrived in a car from Hexham . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The initial outbreak of war had already taken around 3 million b/d out of the world supply/ demand equation . |
| 26 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This was the year in which war had just been declared and was a time of great worry and foreboding . |
| 29 | The War was over , Rutherford split the atom on 3 January 1919 , and the workers ' war had just begun . |
| 30 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |