Example sentences of "england [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry of Huntingdon had in his youth heard very old men speak of the slaughter of Danes in England during the massacre of St Brice 's Day in 1002 , but neither he , nor his contemporaries Florence and William of Malmesbury , relied solely on such evidence . |
| 2 | So great were the variations that no student of medieval agriculture would nowadays dare to assemble all the medieval agrarian institutions into a portmanteau model capable of accommodating the whole of England during the whole of the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 4 | That companion of his undergraduate years , who obviously hoped that one day she would replace Vivien , was visiting England during the school vacation . |
| 5 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 6 | In England during the period between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the Second World War there was an increase in goods and services per person of four-to six-fold at a time when population was increasing six-fold . |
| 7 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 8 | UK banks were subject to special and supplementary deposits at the Bank of England during the period of the ‘ corset ’ . |
| 9 | Rarely used for day sailing in New England during the summer months and ‘ winterized ’ for most of the year . |
| 10 | George Orwell in The road to Wigan pier ( 1937 ) : Another influential observer was J.B. Priestley ; his English journey ( 1934 ) , ‘ being a rambling but truthful account of what one man saw and heard and felt and thought during a journey through England during the Autumn of the year 1933 ’ , evoked another angry response to his urban world . |
| 11 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 12 | The only completely new church to be constructed in England during the Interregnum was built at Staunton Harold in Leicestershire by the staunch Anglican and Royalist , Sir Robert Shirley . |
| 13 | ‘ Standards of agency in Northern Ireland are higher than in the south-east of England during the property boom of the 1980s . |
| 14 | According to the sixth-century chronicler Gildas , there were ‘ Christians ’ in England during the time of the Emperor Tiberius , who died in A.D. 37 . |
| 15 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 16 | In England during the war , she literally committed suicide by refusing her food rations , thus expressing her solidarity with the starving of Europe . |
| 17 | In 1939 we were all in England when Pop came back from Burma to decide what we should do — stay in England during the war , or go back to Burma . |
| 18 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 19 | Most of England and Wales should then be dry although some light rain or drizzle is likely in northern England during the evening . |
| 20 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 21 | A number of the 150 people who have contacted Age Concern England about the debt they face took up their scheme before this date and will not be able to obtain compensation even if they are granted an award through arbitration or private legal action . |
| 22 | As late as the 1180s , St Hugh of Lincoln dared to tease Henry II of England about the tanner 's blood in his veins . |
| 23 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 24 | But of course the nexus of any government in this country is No. 10 and the Treasury , with the Bank of England as the Treasury 's appendage , which unfortunately it is . |
| 25 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 26 | Tulipifera liriodendron ( i.e. Liriodendron tulipifera ) known in England as the tulip tree and as a ‘ poplar ’ by settlers in America , first flowered in this country in the Earl of Peterborough 's garden at Parsons Green where it had been planted , according to Miller , in a wilderness with other trees allowed to overhang it for protection . |
| 27 | The fourth day became one of intense frustration for England as the ground staff , with little of the equipment of their English counterparts , did not fall over themselves to get play started . |
| 28 | The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization . |
| 29 | Section 86 provides that section 82 also applies to information which has been supplied to the Bank of England for the purpose of its functions under the Act by a relevant supervisory authority in a foreign country . |
| 30 | There was a tendency in the later Greek world or in Merovingian Gaul and Anglo-Saxon or Norman England for the name of the moneyer or responsible official to appear prominently in the legend . |