Example sentences of "england [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 4 | The situation is not dissimilar to that in England during the years of austerity in the Forties , when a number of First Division players were tempted to play in Bogota . |
| 5 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Henry also sent north those men who had fallen foul of James V and been in exile in England during his personal rule , Archibald earl of Angus , his brother Sir George Douglas , and Patrick earl of Bothwell . |
| 8 | The absence of Hugh Despenser from England during his Forest Justiceship has already been mentioned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This had already become a subject of crucial significance in England during the course of the seventh century . |
| 13 | It was exported to England during the 1880s and an English herdbook was opened in 1900 . |
| 14 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 15 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 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 | The radical changes which had taken place in England during the previous fifty years meant that something new must be tried . |
| 18 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 19 | Although Ronnie Allen was only 5ft 8 inches tall , he played equally effectively as centre-forward or at outside-right , and he had appeared in both positions for England during his time with West Bromwich Albion . |
| 20 | Equipped with Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters , the unit was composed of battle-hardened veterans who had seen much action during the fighting over England during the previous summer . |
| 21 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 22 | The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In England during the war , she literally committed suicide by refusing her food rations , thus expressing her solidarity with the starving of Europe . |
| 25 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Most of England and Wales should then be dry although some light rain or drizzle is likely in northern England during the evening . |