Example sentences of "england [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Diary of Samuel Pepys , 11 vols. , 1970–83 ; Violet A. Rowe , Sir Henry Vane the Younger , 1970 ; B. Bailyn , The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century , 1955 ; Public Record Office , E.351 , Declared Accounts , Navy ; PROB/11/PCC 47 Penn , 129 North , 174 Pett . ] |
| 2 | Watching England struggle against the Indian spinners emphasised another change in technique . |
| 3 | How sad that the FA should so unashamedly cheapen the wearing of an England shirt in the blatant pursuit of commercial gain , thus following the examples of teams like Arsenal and Manchester United who , on occasions , manage to achieve the appearance of circus clowns . |
| 4 | The former England footballer on the next bar stool in the Royal Oak at Staindrop was showing the cut and thrust of his latest injury . |
| 5 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 6 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 7 | Rigby reckoned that the referee , who had the casting vote , was sure to side with Harlequins given that they had six players in the England side for the following week . |
| 8 | ROBERT Brooke 's comments in May issue 's Milestones about the ‘ recall ’ of J.W. Hearne for the Oval Test match against South Africa make more sense if it is appreciated that , with the rubber already won , the England side for the Fourth Test at Manchester was an ‘ experimental team ’ . |
| 9 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 10 | Detractors of Ward 's friend and former boss , Graham Taylor , deface the England manager through the primitive superimposition of turnips on his head — but the only object likely to adorn Ward 's cranium in York at present is a crown . |
| 11 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
| 12 | Mick Clearly talks to the England flanker with the ice-cold stare |
| 13 | GRAHAM GOOCH has been re-appointed England captain for the five-Test summer Cornhill series against Pakistan and the five one-day Texaco internationals . |
| 14 | WILL CARLING has thrown his immense influence as England captain behind the growing dissatisfaction with rugby 's controversial new ruck and maul law . |
| 15 | And the fact that I will be playing under him as captain on an England tour for the first time will not stop me having dinner and drinking with him most nights . |
| 16 | ON A night of hat-tricks in the Littlewoods Cup last night , Michael Thomas made a powerful case to be considered as an England understudy for the Polish expedition should Bryan Robson suffer a relapse , writes Neil Morton . |
| 17 | Suspension cost Ince an England cap in the humiliating defeat by Norway in June because he had been booked previously against the same opponents and also against Poland . |
| 18 | The Japanese team are only playing four teams around the country , in Leeds , London , Exmouth and Bristol , and their final game will be against England A at the new rugby centre at Castle Croft in Wolverhampton . |
| 19 | PETER SUCH ( Essex ) produced a career-best 7-82 for England A against the Australian Cricket Academy in Melbourne which sent the ACA reeling to 231 all out in their first innings , after they appeared to be heading for a huge lead when they reached 159 for one . |
| 20 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |
| 21 | And let's not forget that Waqar shot out the first four England batsmen in the second innings at The Oval with a new ball — and he was scarcely getting it off line . |
| 22 | DeFreitas was bitterly disappointed to be dropped from the England squad for the second Test at Lord 's yesterday the only change from the side that lost to Australia in Manchester . |
| 23 | DeFreitas was bitterly disappointed to be dropped from the England squad for the second Test at Lord 's yesterday the only change from the side that lost to Australia in Manchester . |
| 24 | Sinton 's goal is to secure one of the remaining berths in Mr Taylor 's England squad for the European Championship in Sweden in June . |
| 25 | The England squad for the European championship qualifier in Poland on November 13 : |
| 26 | THE England squad for the controversial Texaco one-day internationals against Pakistan : Gooch , Stewart , Smith , Hick , Botham , Lewis , Fairbrother , DeFreitas , Reeve , Illingworth , Small , and Cork |
| 27 | Dr Susan Walker , water resources manager for the north-west of England region of the National Rivers Authority , and president-elect of the British Hydrological Society , is honoured for her support of the activities of the university 's department of civil and offshore engineering . |