Example sentences of "england [coord] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from keeping army commanders in both England and Scotland informed about domestic and foreign affairs , he wrote regularly to individual correspondents , for example Ferdinando , second Baron Fairfax of Cameron [ q.v. ] , during the civil war , and from September 1658 to Henry Cromwell [ q.v. ] , lord lieutenant of Ireland . |
| 2 | Perhaps the famine — like the plagues of Egypt of old — was sent by God as a warning to England and Ireland to turn from this course while time still offered . |
| 3 | The civil registration of all births , marriages and deaths in England and Wales began on 1 July 1837 and continues to the present day . |
| 4 | Gregory King had estimated in 1688 that the arable land of England and Wales amounted to nine million acres in all . |
| 5 | A total of 23,594 companies in England and Wales went into compulsory or voluntary liquidation in 1992 — a rise of 8.2 per cent — according to figures from the accountancy firm KPMG Peat Marwick . |
| 6 | All engineering on rivers in England and Wales falls into one or other of two categories : capital schemes and maintenance schemes . |
| 7 | The House may wish to know that between 1979 and 1990 the perinatal mortality rate for England and Wales dropped by 45 per cent . |
| 8 | Use of deputies both in Berkshire and in England and Wales dropped by more than half since 1989 . |
| 9 | THE number of cot deaths in England and Wales fell from 1,593 in 1988 to 1,008 in 1991 , according to figures published yesterday the third consecutive year the figures have fallen . |
| 10 | The figures showed that in 1981-91 the area of vegetables grown in England and Wales fell by 10 per cent but the area treated with pesticides increased by 40 per cent ; the volume used fell by 10 per cent , as pesticides became less bulky . |
| 11 | Almost 50 per cent of coastal areas surveyed last year in Scotland , England and Wales suffered from some form of pollution . |
| 12 | In official figures it is shown that only ninety five percent of people who are eligible to be registered in England and Wales appear upon electoral registers . |
| 13 | The background to the Dobry Reports has already been indicated ; in arithmetical terms , between 1968 and 1972 the number of planning decisions by local authorities in England and Wales increased from 425,000 to 615,000 , while the number of appeals rose even more dramatically . |
| 14 | Between 1961 and 1971 , the number of households in England and Wales increased by 2 million , and by a further 1.1 million in the decade up to 1981 . |
| 15 | Official calculations of the number of slum dwellings were continually revised ( upwardly ) and by 1939 the officially accepted total for England and Wales stood at 472,000 . |
| 16 | In 1989 the average prison population for England and Wales stood at 48,600 , a drop of some 3 per cent ( 1,350 ) over 1988 . |
| 17 | Levels of pesticide and chemical residues in drinking water in England and Wales rose in 1992 for the second year in succession , according to the Drinking Water Inspectorate , although overall water quality remained the same , with 98.7 per cent of the 3.75 million tests complying with national and EC standards . |
| 18 | The number of water pollution incidents in England and Wales rose by 4 per cent in 1992 to a total of 23,331 , according to official statistics produced by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 19 | Recorded crime in England and Wales rose by three point eight per cent in the year to June . |
| 20 | Recorded crime in England and Wales rose by three point eight per cent in the year to June . |