Example sentences of "england [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's route first took him along the south coast of England during a heatwave then around the south west peninsula and Wales to Holyhead where he crossed to Dublin in November . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 5 | That companion of his undergraduate years , who obviously hoped that one day she would replace Vivien , was visiting England during the school vacation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | UK banks were subject to special and supplementary deposits at the Bank of England during the period of the ‘ corset ’ . |
| 10 | Rarely used for day sailing in New England during the summer months and ‘ winterized ’ for most of the year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Standards of agency in Northern Ireland are higher than in the south-east of England during the property boom of the 1980s . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In England during the war , she literally committed suicide by refusing her food rations , thus expressing her solidarity with the starving of Europe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most of England and Wales should then be dry although some light rain or drizzle is likely in northern England during the evening . |
| 21 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As late as the 1180s , St Hugh of Lincoln dared to tease Henry II of England about the tanner 's blood in his veins . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The appearance of Mosley before an audience of 12,000 at Olympia was intended to demonstrate to newsreel cameras and radio listeners the existence of Fascism in England as a mass , popular movement . |
| 27 | Is not that new manufacturing capacity brought here by the Government 's successes in promoting Britain and the north of England as a location for manufacturing ? |
| 28 | The briefing note which the CPC has sent to local Conservative associations gives Age Concern England as a contact point for further information . |
| 29 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 30 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |