Example sentences of "england [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish castles of Berwick-on-Tweed and Roxburgh , hitherto only occupied by the English , were now ceded to England for all time coming . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 3 | Dashwood was Postmaster-General of England at one time . |
| 4 | Lewis was fully aware of the fact that there was a purely irrational intellectual snobbery abroad in England at that time , more powerful than any genuine intellectual stumbling-block to faith . |
| 5 | In England at that time shop girls would have a weekly wage of about twenty-five shillings so John Tiller was giving dancers an excellent deal by paying them fifty shillings a week when on tour , matinées providing an extra ten shillings . |
| 6 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
| 7 | There were probably around 5,000 prisoners on any one day in England at that time , spread between almost 250 gaols , prisons and houses of detention . |
| 8 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 9 | In the absence of evidence of valuable raw materials being extracted in England at this time , both explanations remain possible . |
| 10 | There are other potential imports which are less apparent ; mercury , for instance , was used to gild at least some of the metalwork in England at this time ( Oddy 1980 ) . |
| 11 | But , just as there is evidence that Group VI axes were being quarried from the parent rock , there is some evidence of contact between south-west Scotland and eastern England at this time , which may explain why at least some of the whetstones have been transported up to 400 km from the parent rock . |
| 12 | The overseas economy of Kent was the most developed in early Anglo-Saxon England ; so strong is this overseas flavour of the Kentish economy and its society ; that it can almost be seen as part of the Continent rather than the rest of England at this time . |
| 13 | The affinity between France and England at this time could be illustrated by the fact that the diplomatic representatives of both kingdoms studied at Paris . |
| 14 | In England at this time it was quite avant garde to possess a refrigerator . |
| 15 | 730 onwards , this could have been a factor in the aggressive policies of Aethelbald in southern England at this time . |
| 16 | A Kentish hegemony in south-east England at this time is not , therefore , wholly out of the question , and Offa 's intention in intervening in 784–5 and thereafter may have been to gain mastery of it and contain it . |
| 17 | This is unlikely to have always been so , but assessing the precise extent and purpose of their involvement in England at this time entails the use of some difficult source material . |
| 18 | If Earl Eric was in England at this time , it may increase the likelihood that Swegen was also , for the two had collaborated in the defeat of Olaf Tryggvason , and Eric later fought for Cnut and was given the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 19 | The evidence of division lists , voting patterns of peers and MPs , organisational structure , and ideological dispute , all serve to confirm the impression of a basic Whig–Tory conflict in England at this time , at least for the period after 1696 ; indeed , we can even talk about a two-party system . |
| 20 | There were around forty exhorters in England by this time , so their growth does seem to have been especially marked in Cornwall . |