Example sentences of "england [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As David Norbrook has shown , the Faerie Queene had another guise in sixteenth-century England as a mischievous black-faced trickster , who at least some peasant rebels claimed to be led by . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 3 | Take off early morning before the heat of the day , and back in England for an easy onward journey by 0800 . |
| 4 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 5 | The story begins in 1914 when Lt Harry Colebourn of the Canadian Veterinary Corps arrived in England with a small black bear which he named Winnie after his home town . |
| 6 | ‘ We left England on a dark cold night , but as we approached the Island the clear lights of towns and villages sparkled like jewels . |
| 7 | Even Claire will go to England to a decent finishing school , and she 's a girl . |