Example sentences of "of england [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order in which we put the various parts of England under the local government commission 's microscope will be for the Government to decide . |
| 2 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 3 | As Thomas ( 1963 ) wrote , people were affected by trains to some extent even in the most remote parts of England during the latter half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | Irving and Hilgendorf 's ( 1975 ) data ( table 5.6 ) broadly support Gasson , who found , using a rather finer regionalization , that the parts of England with the highest proportions of full-time agricultural workers in tied accommodation were the South West and the South East . |
| 5 | ’ It is most important that the French should be aware of the united action of England with the other powers , the knowledge of it will have a most wholesome influence on the French government . ’ |
| 6 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 7 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 8 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 9 | Immigration Act , Rhodesia , Gomulka , Prague , America having a national nervous breakdown , the soul of England on the ropy side . |
| 10 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 11 | He was often aware of the which defended the realm of England against the Scottish raiders and then back to the Celtic saints coming out of Scotland into Northumbria . |
| 12 | Then take Leonard 's speech to the General Synod of the Church of England before the crucial vote on the ordination of women to the priesthood in 1978 . |
| 13 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 16 | In 1296 it was seized by King Edward I of England in the apparent belief that mere possession of the stone validated his claim to be King of Scots . |
| 17 | Their 10-wicket trouncing of England in the deciding Cornhill Test at the Oval yesterday more than confirmed they are not just the world 's one-day cricket kings . |
| 18 | the continuation of Oxford Street ( now Bayswater Road , west London ) was the main highway from London to the west of England in the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | As that implies , Palladian architecture , which changed the face of England in the eighteenth century , is from one point of view a moral movement . |
| 20 | The introduction of the new sales office will give opportunities to expand sales in the North of England in the next year . |
| 21 | In the article she was at pains to point out why they had to stay out of England until the following April , ‘ not because of tax ’ , she insisted , ‘ but in case either of us drops dead , which would mean the company having to be broken up ’ . |
| 22 | Thus , damply and noisily , ended the invasion of England by the Young pretender ; the whole campaign south of the Border had lasted less than six weeks . |
| 23 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 24 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |