Example sentences of "england [prep] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Outside the city walls , Yorkshire is the largest county in England with a varied landscape of dales and moors , rich farmland and historic monuments . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The community we serve is largely made up of families who have come to England from a rural district of Bangladesh called Sylhet . |
| 10 | It blamed the decline in playing standards at first-class level in England on an excessive amount of limited-over cricket . |
| 11 | 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 . |