Example sentences of "[prep] london [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A commune is the tumult of the people , the terror of the realm , the tepidity of the priesthood ’ — such was the cry of the chronicler Richard of Devizes , as he took shelter in the cathedral priory at Winchester , and contemplated from afar the commune of London of the 1190s . |
| 2 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 3 | It was also one of the attractions of London for the intellectually-minded tourist . |
| 4 | Paul 's Act of Faith is to be co-produced with Soho Theatre of London on the following night . |
| 5 | And now here she was , sitting meekly in the passenger-seat of his car , while he drove her out of London with the controlled aggression of a racing driver . |
| 6 | More clearly than Wheatley , he identified the gold standard policies of the Treasury and the City of London as the major obstacle to national economic recovery . |
| 7 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 8 | The condition of London during the nineteenth century was particularly bad . |
| 9 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 11 | The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a beautifully written , homoerotic novel set in the pre-AIDS gay male sub-culture of London in the early 1980s . |
| 12 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 13 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 15 | Among the published results , it is intended to produce a ‘ social atlas of London in the 1690s ’ . |
| 16 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 17 | These efforts were bolstered by the firm belief in the civilising effect of personal relations between the classes which reached their peak in the ‘ settlement houses ’ in slum areas of London in the 1880s . |
| 18 | Among the clubs frequented by the gentry of London in the eighteenth century was the Wig Club which owed its name to a wig , reputedly made of the pubic hair of the mistresses of King Charles II . |
| 19 | In Absolute Beginners he tried to explore the energy of London in the Fifties . |
| 20 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 21 | With the growth in industry there was also a significant development of trade , particularly in the early Tudor period , and with it came the increasing dominance of London in the English economy . |
| 22 | This project aims to publish an extensive listing of books and articles on most aspects of the history of London from the Dark ages to 1939 . |
| 23 | There were similar provisions in Acts providing for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire . |
| 24 | Given a merchant 's upbringing close to London 's dockland , and enrolled as a mercer , he rapidly made his mark among a group of rising ‘ outsiders ’ , prominent in colonial trades and colonizing ventures , who were challenging the politically conservative oligarchy of mainly Levant and East India Company merchants that dominated the corporation of London before the civil war . |
| 25 | Again , in Ellen Ross 's study of the East End of London before the First World War , the theme of women assisting other women comes across strongly . |
| 26 | The streets of Prague are like London in the early Sixties , an idea sustained by the old-fashioned local cars — the ubiquitous rear-engined Skodas and the chauffeur-driven Tatras . |
| 27 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 28 | June temperatures hit the south of England for a day , with London in the 70s . |
| 29 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 30 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |