Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Thomas ( 1963 ) wrote , people were affected by trains to some extent even in the most remote parts of England during the latter half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 3 | Still on the subject of voice , let me remind you of the slogan which heralded the government 's campaign against German spies in England during the Second World War . |
| 4 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 5 | ZEPPELINS of World War One by Wilbur Cross , tells of the little-known aerial battles that took place over England during the Great War , when Germany attempted to paralyse the British by dropping tons of bombs from a fleet of super-Zeppelins . |
| 6 | Some histories say he returned to England during the Great War , but most comment that he spent the war years in Australia and New Zealand before returning to Surrey in 1919 . |
| 7 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 10 | Wandering through the spacious grounds you will come upon what is believed to be the remains of an earlier 12th-century castle visited by five kings of England during the 12th and 13th centuries . |
| 11 | Although Eliab suffered serious losses in 1177 in a failed consortium to lend money to the Crown , and was briefly exiled from England during the 1180s , he returned from the Continent in 1186 on promise of a 2,000 mark fine , and resided thereafter in Norwich until his death in 1197 . |
| 12 | WHILE ENJOYING the high quality of play by England during the recent New Zealand tour and latterly the World Cup , and appreciating the fitness they displayed , I could n't help but wonder about the current medical practices being used to prepare players for matches while still injured . |
| 13 | The otter … seen here on the Scottish coast … was almost wiped out by pesticide poisoning in England during the 1960s and 70s . |
| 14 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 15 | Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries . |
| 16 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 17 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 18 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 20 | There are only a few isolated examples of Jacobite riots or demonstrations in England during the 1690s , perhaps suggesting that Jacobite sentiment was not particularly widespread . |
| 21 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | He scored 189 runs in three undefeated innings against England during the past week . |
| 23 | The basic text book would have been something like Lily 's Latin Grammar , which , in the revised edition by Leonard Cox , was made official in England during the 1540s . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 25 | The Dutch Souterliedekens with tunes only were published at Antwerp in 1540 and in England during the same period Miles Coverdale brought out his Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes , also with tunes only ( c. 1543 ) , while Francis Seagar 's selection of 19 Certayne Psalmes ( London , 1553 ) are all accommodated to two four-part compositions . |
| 26 | It was exported to England during the 1880s and an English herdbook was opened in 1900 . |
| 27 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 28 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 29 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 30 | At York he was able to write a weighty book , From Gore to Temple , which traced changes in Christian thought in England during the last eighty years . |