Example sentences of "england [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura Levine has pointed to an interesting relationship in early modern England between fears of sodomy and fears of the theatre . |
| 2 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 3 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My parents were Italians who came to England as children . |
| 5 | By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle . |
| 6 | Agincourt faces , Jo had called them ; the bony , resolute features of a dynasty which led the people of England for centuries . |
| 7 | Though Cranmer drew from many sources , it was his own touch which gave the Prayer Book the charm , perfection of form and expression which were to endow the Church of England for centuries with unity , strength and a way to the hearts of men . |
| 8 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
| 9 | ‘ Been exporting it to England for years , my firm . ’ |
| 10 | Hire-purchase was used in England for pianos , furniture , and sewing machines ; after a slight hiccup , the courts gave their imprimatur . |
| 11 | Bishop Lesslie Newbigin ( 1983 ) describes the effect of coming back to England after years in the mission field as one of shock : a realisation that there was little hope . |
| 12 | Dorahy , previously No 2 in charge at Aussie outfit Newcastle Knights , is no stranger to England after spells with Leigh , Hull KR and Halifax , where he also had 12 months as coach . |
| 13 | ANCIENT festival rituals , such as Shrove Tuesday football , horn dancing , bull-running , pace-egging and pancake racing , have persisted in England despite attempts by Puritans of all periods to suppress them . |
| 14 | There is no system in England of precepts being levied by the Central Government upon local authorities by other bodies . |
| 15 | The headline over her letter stated : ’ An England of regions is the way forward in a Europe of regions ’ . |
| 16 | I have done ten flights to England against ships . ’ |
| 17 | A wealth of fascinating history lies within the very name of the Hundred House Hotel which refers to the ancient subdivisions of the shires of England into areas known as ‘ hundreds ’ . |
| 18 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 19 | In June 1788 Charles Vial , the Frenchman who was to become the first Professor of the London Veterinary College in 1791 , arrived in England with letters of introduction from Pierre-Marie Auguste Broussonet ( 1761–1807 ) to Sir Joseph Banks PRS ( 1743–1820 ) , Samuel Foart Simmons MD , FRS ( 1750–1813 ) and Dr P.D . |
| 20 | Why else publish his own guide in 1822 and 1835 — Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England with Views , as it was first entitled ? |
| 21 | In 1774 smallpox was widespread throughout England with epidemics in countless towns and villages , including Yetminster . |
| 22 | course in Education at Southampton University while waiting for the divorce to come through , but while I like Oman , I do not feel ‘ stretched ’ in this post and also ( now I have reached the age of fifty ) miss being in England with children and family . |
| 23 | National Provincial Bank of England v. Games ( 1886 ) 31 Ch.D. 582 , C.A. |
| 24 | In National Provincial Bank of England v. Games ( 1886 ) 31 Ch.D. 582 an issue arose in a foreclosure action as to the sum to be paid by the mortgagor in order to avoid foreclosure . |
| 25 | ( This is illustrated for England in Figures 5.3 and 5.4 . ) |
| 26 | The French tract , while not primarily concerned with the sea and the exercise of sea power , none the less tried to show not merely France 's equality but its superiority over England in matters maritime . |
| 27 | Thus early in the war , Bletchley became the intellectual centre of England in terms other than the purely geographical . |
| 28 | In the light of the division between Kent and the rest of England in terms of some luxury imports , it is interesting that Evison ( ibid. ) observed that the wheel-thrown vessels found outside Kent , and which are widely scattered , have originated from different and often distinct parts of north-west Europe . |
| 29 | The strain of conducting frontier warfare against the French and their Indian allies , without assistance from the south , forced the Massachusetts assembly to ask for help from England in terms that showed a reasonable willingness to co-operate with policy laid down in London . |
| 30 | He drew attention to the size of England in terms of population and geography . |