Example sentences of "[noun sg] war [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project had been effectively nullified by the UN embargo on Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait , and by a decision by the US Congress during the ensuing Gulf war to stiffen a sanctions law preventing technology transfers , including non-military , to countries producing missiles . |
| 2 | Bill Davies was a Welsh International winger who played for The Palace in nearly 200 Southern League matches in two spells with the club from 1907 , until the 1st World War forced a conclusion to fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 3 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 4 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 5 | Joshua ( nicknamed ‘ Joe ’ by the Palace fans ) Johnson was our club 's goalkeeper from early December 1907 until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football in 1915 . |
| 6 | He was first choice at number two until the 2nd World War called a halt to fully competitive soccer — and well beyond . |
| 7 | The First World War called a halt to the normal programme of work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To the Colonisation Commission and its supporters the start of the First World War offered a solution to all their problems . |
| 10 | The Second World War put an end to this age as surely as the First World War began it . |