Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it yet become , will it become , a real peoples ' war ? |
| 2 | The most active of these groups is the Peoples ' War Group ( PWG ) . |
| 3 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 4 | But the Japanese attitude to other countries ' war graves is not winning them any friends . |
| 5 | Marines ' war on poachers |
| 6 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
| 7 | Over coffee in the studio , amid paints and palettes , we all discussed the Fishermen 's War , a war that still drags on as I write . |
| 8 | Jossom , do you think that the allies ' war aims are to destroy Iraqui military and the Iraqui regime , or to liberate Kuwait ? |
| 9 | The War was over , Rutherford split the atom on 3 January 1919 , and the workers ' war had just begun . |
| 10 | After the Barons ' War , a number of feudal magnates with great local estates were appointed as Forest wardens . |
| 11 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 12 | There is also a copy here of the Black Madonna of St Foy , brought from Belgium during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 13 | It was formerly the Leslie Palace , built by a Scottish mercenary who , in the Thirty Years ' War , was implicated in the murder of Wallenstein , one of the most powerful men in Bohemia . |
| 14 | By 1648 , at the end of the Thirty Years ' War , Catholicism held total sway . |
| 15 | It has been speculated by Smith that this idea might have been suggested to Bourgelat by the Earl of Pembroke ( 1734–1794 ) , a cavalry officer in the Seven Years ' War . |
| 16 | Mention the economic and social sequelae , the effect on the Hundred Years ' War when soldiers , too , fell victim … the weakening of England 's hold on territories in France . |
| 17 | The exuberant rush of ecclesiastical building was a byproduct of the Thirty Years ' War , which interrupted the German Renaissance and delayed the arrival of the Baroque until two generations after its origins in Italy . |
| 18 | Politically , the road ran via numerous conflicts — the Hundred Years ' War , the English Civil War , the French Revolution and the American War of Independence , for example — to the emergence of modern democracy , and through more recent upheavals to the communist alternative . |
| 19 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 20 | White further asserted that a basic theological harmony was restored in the 1630s after England 's withdrawal from the Thirty Years ' War , and concluded by declaring that the so-called rise of Arminianism was merely ‘ a puritan alibi for repeated failures to impose rigid predestinarian doctrine on the Church of England ’ . |
| 21 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 22 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |
| 23 | A lively portrait of Albert and the literary and musical aspirations of his circle is contained in Günter Grass 's The Meeting at Telgte which also provides an evocative and credible background to the horror of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 24 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 25 | In the famous debates between the Levellers and the army leaders , principally Cromwell and Ireton , at Putney in the autumn of 1647 , the Levellers argued that those who had fought on Parliament 's side had earned the right to be enfranchised : " if ever a people shall free themselves from tyranny , certainly it is after seven years ' war and fighting for their liberty , " said Maximilian Petty . |
| 26 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 27 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 28 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |
| 29 | Sampson Lloyd 's iron business prospered during the Seven Years ' War , but the peace in 1763 posed a challenge , as did the need to provide careers for his four sons . |
| 30 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |