Example sentences of "england [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Flushed with success after his appearance on the Indie panel at the recent CMJ seminar in New York , new skid on the block SHITMAN could soon be coming to England as a new face on yoof TV . |
2 | Overall , in the 1970s the main areas of rapid population growth tended to lie just beyond the traditional suburban counties : in southern England as a broad arc to the north of the Home Counties from Norfolk to Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire . |
3 | Clearly , one can not take price movements in southern England as a precise indication of population change even there , let alone over the country as a whole , but it would be extraordinary if variations in population were not an important factor affecting them , even taking into account the vagaries of individual harvests . |
4 | In 1952 a scheme ( known as ROBOT ) was devised by the Treasury and the Bank of England for a floating rate of exchange for sterling and for the full convertibility of the currency subject to the funding of 80 per cent of the sterling balances held by non-dollar countries . |
5 | To lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators . |
6 | Anglo-Welsh have stated that one of their principal objectives is ‘ to lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators ’ . |
7 | Their devastated father Garry — a computer company executive who left England for a new life in Ireland 20 years ago -said : ‘ I am so numb at the loss of my two beautiful children . |
8 | He returned to England for a short holiday in May 1929 . |
9 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
10 | Orphan Bogdan Ursu , ( above ) brought to England for a vital operation by Middlesbroughbased Convoy Aid Romania , will join the NSPCC 's Jail and Bail appeal . |
11 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
12 | SOUTH AFRICA last night celebrated their return to England after a 23-year absence by naming five internationals to face the Midlands at Leicester tomorrow . |
13 | While the English army remained preoccupied during the early 1650s with these military campaigns against the Irish and Scots , the Rump of the Long Parliament was able to pursue a foreign policy motivated primarily by commercial considerations , leading England into a naval war with her principal trading rival , Protestant Holland . |
14 | Coton 's plea is likely to cut no ice with Taylor as he takes England into a qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup finals . |
15 | Outside the city walls , Yorkshire is the largest county in England with a varied landscape of dales and moors , rich farmland and historic monuments . |
16 | Until that time the Royal Academy of Arts , which was founded in 1768 , was the only body in England with a substantial representation of architects among its membership , although they were always out-numbered by painters and sculptors . |
17 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
18 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
19 | MPs put the governor of the Bank of England in a tight spot over Harrods bank . |
20 | He passed the Bishop 's examination and was ordained a Deacon in the Church of England in an interesting ceremony at the Parish Church of Farnham , Surrey , in 1885 . |
21 | Taken to its logical conclusion , it is possible that the same three groups of supporters may combine to ‘ represent ’ England in an overseas confrontation with continental supporters ( Williams et al. , 1984 ) . |
22 | The community we serve is largely made up of families who have come to England from a rural district of Bangladesh called Sylhet . |
23 | Only last month the FA took Government advice to withdraw England from a planned friendly in Rotterdam in December . |
24 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
25 | It blamed the decline in playing standards at first-class level in England on an excessive amount of limited-over cricket . |
26 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |