Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This study of the religious history of England during the early modern period commences in 1529 , a year which proved a fundamental turning-point in the fortunes of the church and religion in England .
2 Also he s been involved in the England set up to some degree for a number of years , and was an official ‘ spy ’ or scout for England during the last 2 world cups ( time on his hands this time around ! ) .
3 He could then press his claim in one jurisdiction and the effect of the English injunction could be continued until he obtained enforcement in England of the resulting foreign judgment .
4 The Kings Collins Cross terminal as it says here the Kings Cross er terminal for the cross channel route is also of vital importance and in fact it could be that with the development of a high speed , the high speed train services between not only London but also the North of England into the European local structure , that the need for
5 The anti-vivisection movement also emerged in England in the late nineteenth century but , again , it consisted mainly of middle- and upper-class pet-lovers , and much of their outrage was directed at foreign , rather than home-grown , scientists .
6 Most of this housing took the form of Tyneside flats , an unusual type of construction in which what appears to be one reasonably large terrace house of a kind very commonly built in industrial cities in Northern England in the late nineteenth century , is in fact two flats .
7 Richard Morris has suggested , in fact , that there were many thousands of small churches in England in the late Saxon period .
8 Walnut displaced oak as the prized hardwood in England in the late 17th century .
9 The sense of panic about over-population that had swept across England in the late sixteenth century , and had made emigration look like the answer to problems of poverty and disorder , had died down and there were even suggestions that a substantial population helped economic expansion .
10 We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect .
11 It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century .
12 With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them .
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