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Example sentences for "line system"

  • It was surmised that these were being prepared for trench mortars, for the destruction of the British front-line system, as that of the Russians had been destroyed before the last great German advance at Riga.

  • The mines, it was agreed, had been decisive in the capture of the front-line system, and had exercised a great moral effect much farther back.

  • The German front-line system of defence was taken everywhere.

  • Outside Oppy and south of it troops of old English county regiments seized the front-line system of German trenches and captured about 200 prisoners and several guns.

  • The enemy began early in the morning by putting a barrage down on our front-line system of defences from a large number of batteries of heavy howitzers.

  • At one time, while the 4th Londons were still holding the front-line system, the enemy was attacking Bailleul East Post, held by the London Scottish, and had captured two machine guns with crews just in front of the post.

  • Any delay would enable the enemy to put his barrage in front of our front-line system, as if there is a weak point in our organisation, it is in the number of counter-batteries available to deal with the enemy guns.

  • The objective of this Corps was to capture and hold a section of the enemy’s third-line system known as the Gheluvelt-Langemarck line.

  • Principle of Broken-Line System] Obviously, if a proper ringing current is sent over the metallic circuit from the central office, only the bell at Station A will operate, since the bells at the other stations are not in the circuit.

  • A great advantage of the harmonic party-line system is the simplicity of the apparatus at the subscriber's station.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    charge against; criminal procedure; directions given; general appearance; great blow; line clear; line drawn; line engraving; line from; line stanza; line stanzas; line system; line trench; line upon; linear series; linen paper; lines drawn; little grim; quotes from; said sternly; shall thee; show myself; thy love; want you; widely distributed; wrong side