Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 2 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 3 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
| 4 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 5 | Schneider-Siemssen 's blasted post-Thirty Years War landscape catches well the insecure mood of the opera , conceived in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 6 | Pisa fought Genoa for control of Mediterranean trade , Florence fought Siena for control of the trade route to Rome , and in the Ten Years War ( 1118–1127 ) , Milan fought the city of Como for control of Lombardy . |
| 7 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War . |
| 9 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 10 | Wedgewood 's great account of the Thirty Years War . |
| 11 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 12 | That done , he crossed the Rhine at Breisach and in four extraordinary campaigns brought an end to the Thirty Years War . |
| 13 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 14 | When Ferdinand II attempted to impose Catholicism on largely Protestant Bohemia , the citizens of Prague rebelled , thereby opening the struggles of the Thirty Years War . |
| 15 | The Thirty Years War was more a symptom than a cause of processes already well advanced . |
| 16 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 17 | And , when he said he could , went on to enquire whether he could also remember the Thirty Years War . |
| 18 | That event is usually seen as the beginning of the Thirty Years War . |
| 19 | The parish church ( Pfarrkirche S. Veit ) is one of the oldest examples of Austrian baroque , built during the first decade of the Thirty Years War , although the interior fittings and paintings are largely work of the eighteenth-century high baroque . |
| 20 | In The Thirty Years War , C. V. Wedgewood suggests that Austria was ruined as the potential leader of a German-speaking Mittel-Europa by the dynastic linkage of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 21 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 22 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 23 | The armoury was founded by Altgraf Ernst Salentin ( 1621–84 ) who inherited and began restoring the castle in 1645 following the damage of the Thirty Years War . |
| 24 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 25 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 26 | The town was occupied by the Austrians in 1548 , and besieged by the Swedes in 1633 during the Thirty Years War . |
| 27 | Kreuzlingen 's Augustinian priory , founded in the tenth century , was a victim of that siege during the Thirty Years War , and the present building , erected soon after , now houses a college . |
| 28 | In 1627 Schütz composed Martin Opitz 's German adaptation of Rinuccini 's old Dafne libretto ( see p. 271 ) for the wedding of a Saxon princess at Hartenfels , near Torgau , but the Thirty Years War was no time for the birth of German opera and Schütz 's score is lost . |
| 29 | ( Italian opera had already appeared in Munich in 1653 , very soon after the end of the Thirty Years War ; indeed it was taken up by several German courts during the 1650S . ) |
| 30 | The Jews along with the Huguenots were welcomed with open arms by Friedrich Wilhelm after the Thirty Years War in the hope of achieving rapid economic growth on the cinders of destruction . |