Example sentences of "of england [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the virtual disappearance of the farm pond , frog populations in some parts of England declined drastically between the 1950s and the 1970s . |
| 2 | When Elizabeth of England died early on the morning of 24 March 1603 it had already become obvious to her entourage that James VI of Scotland was her only possible successor . |
| 3 | The amount of banknotes issued by the Bank of England depends largely on the demand for notes from the general public . |
| 4 | The shift of people into the Midlands and south of England slowed substantially during the later 1960s and early 1970s , but its subsequent re-emergence formed one of the key features of the 1980s , along with the ‘ transfer ’ of large parts of the Midlands into the North ( Green , 1988 ; Lewis and Townsend , 1989 ; Martin , 1989a ) . |
| 5 | Mr Vaz said the report ‘ very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation . ’ |
| 6 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |