Example sentences of "england [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Although it might be construed in England as a joint papal and royal dissolution of a religious order and its houses , the statute of 1324 in waiving the king 's rights over the forfeited property omitted all mention of a papal grant to the Hospitallers and thus left on the statute book an impression of autonomous royal action . |
2 | Coming to England as a political refugee , he had originally worked for Thomas Gray , the poet , who , as Professor of History , was responsible for modern languages in the University . |
3 | Another notable Catholic , Peter Philips ( c. 1560–1628 ) , left England as a young man . |
4 | Flushed with success after his appearance on the Indie panel at the recent CMJ seminar in New York , new skid on the block SHITMAN could soon be coming to England as a new face on yoof TV . |
5 | As David Norbrook has shown , the Faerie Queene had another guise in sixteenth-century England as a mischievous black-faced trickster , who at least some peasant rebels claimed to be led by . |
6 | Overall , in the 1970s the main areas of rapid population growth tended to lie just beyond the traditional suburban counties : in southern England as a broad arc to the north of the Home Counties from Norfolk to Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire . |
7 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
8 | To his credit he , along with most Nonconformists , was among those who insisted that England as a Christian nation had an obligation to rescue fellow Christians from brutal death at the hands of fanatical Mohammedans . |
9 | The Minister must recognise that the concept of England as a unitary nation may make much sense in the south of England , but there is a much greater feeling of distance among people in the north . |
10 | To the still ardent John Kemp the old Don is a romantic figure , while Don Baltasar for his part dreams of England as a glamorous country , free from the political pressures of his own adopted land . |
11 | 127 , Sir Charles Hall V.-C. referred to the jurisdiction over the Inns of the judges of the superior courts of England as a peculiar jurisdiction which has always been recognised . |
12 | Clearly , one can not take price movements in southern England as a precise indication of population change even there , let alone over the country as a whole , but it would be extraordinary if variations in population were not an important factor affecting them , even taking into account the vagaries of individual harvests . |
13 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
14 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
15 | In 1952 a scheme ( known as ROBOT ) was devised by the Treasury and the Bank of England for a floating rate of exchange for sterling and for the full convertibility of the currency subject to the funding of 80 per cent of the sterling balances held by non-dollar countries . |
16 | With characteristically bad judgement , Charles now turned back to the Scots , with whom he made a secret treaty under which the Solemn League and Covenant would be confirmed by King and Parliament , and presbyterianism would be established in England for a limited period . |
17 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
18 | To lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators . |
19 | Anglo-Welsh have stated that one of their principal objectives is ‘ to lay the foundations in North West England for a regional business of sufficient scale , depth of resources and range of products to compete effectively against larger operators ’ . |
20 | Their devastated father Garry — a computer company executive who left England for a new life in Ireland 20 years ago -said : ‘ I am so numb at the loss of my two beautiful children . |
21 | Dallas-based BancTec Inc has won a $1.7m order from the Bank of England for a stand-alone check clearing system : the Old Lady will use three BancTec 5500 document transports and the associated peripherals in its London clearing centre . |
22 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
23 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
24 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
25 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
26 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
27 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
28 | He returned to England for a short holiday in May 1929 . |
29 | Orphan Bogdan Ursu , ( above ) brought to England for a vital operation by Middlesbroughbased Convoy Aid Romania , will join the NSPCC 's Jail and Bail appeal . |
30 | However , Barbarossa was still suspicious of the leader of the Guelphs , and when he resolved to go on crusade he ordered that Henry must either follow him to the Holy Land or return to exile in England for a further three years . |