Example sentences of "england a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times were troubled , and England a rich source of plunder . |
| 2 | The attack on Warrington may simply mean that there remains intact in that area of England a small cell of perhaps no more than two activists who escaped detection and arrest in operations following the gasometer explosion . |
| 3 | A POWERFUL low drive by Nick Summerbee earned England a 1–0 win over Scotland and eased them into the final of the Under-21 tournament in Toulon last night . |
| 4 | The proportion in work had begun to fall , however , and from the 1930s dropped rapidly : according to official figures , today in England a mere 7 per cent of men over 65 remain employed . |
| 5 | TREVOR GORDON sunk two free throws two seconds from time to give England a 75–71 triumph over Russia at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre last night . |
| 6 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 7 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 8 | Beefy has been recalled for the resumed Texaco Trophy series in a bid to give England a clean-sweep revenge for their World Cup final beating by Pakistan . |
| 9 | At the same time in England a similar union of king and Church was maintained by Edgar , by Ethelred the Unready when he was his own master , and by Cnut . |
| 10 | A firm is not in England a legal personality distinct from its members , though in Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed ( partnership Act 1890 , s. 4 ) . |
| 11 | The ambiguities and contradictions in Spencer 's theory gradually became apparent and , as Hawthorn comments : ‘ Towards the end of the century he became in England a living monument to vanished assumptions . ’ |
| 12 | The pitch at Devonport was of more interest to bowlers than batsmen , and only a steady 76 from Broad , with some support from Lamb , gave England a reasonable total of 177 . |
| 13 | Walker played a sloppy square-pass , selling his centre-back partner Mark Wright short and costing England a 12th-minute goal . |
| 14 | He brought with him from England a legendary reputation as an actor manager and his dream was to build the most modern theatre ever seen in Belfast . |
| 15 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 16 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 17 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 18 | He retired to England a broken man , his wife and children dead of tropical disease . |
| 19 | For example , in many accents of the Midlands and North-Western England a particular set of words contains a vowel ( represented by ‘ o ’ in the spelling ) which is pronounced as in RP but as in these other accents ; the list of words includes ‘ one ’ , ‘ none ’ , ‘ nothing ’ , ‘ tongue ’ , ‘ mongrel ’ and ‘ constable ’ . |
| 20 | She had found England a cold place . |
| 21 | 474 set England a stiff target but the pitch was less malicious than the earlier ones and Gooch and Slack put on 127 for the first wicket . |
| 22 | In the face of excellent bowling , wickets fell steadily , and with 31 from Richards the top score they were all out for 139 , giving England a 47-run victory . |
| 23 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 24 | Crooks converted magnificently from the touchline to give England a commanding 12–0 lead . |
| 25 | So , in England a whole part of her personality remained buried . |
| 26 | The guile of Phil Tufnell and the experience of John Emburey gives England a clear advantage in the spin department and the pace of Phil DeFreitas , Devon Malcolm and Chris Lewis should exploit any life in the pitches . |
| 27 | In 1987 in sixteen counties across south-east England an estimated 15 million trees were blown down ; from the Trust 's estate alone the figure was at least 250,000 . |
| 28 | Escoffier gives a couple , and in England an eight-volume Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery , published in 1899 , gives a formula for candied tomatoes , several for jam , and another for green tomatoes to be stewed in a sugar syrup and eaten cold with cream . |
| 29 | In southwest England an early paper by Waters ( 1957 ) demonstrated the significance of differential weathering in oldlands and gave the basis for a new way of regarding the earlier stages of landscape evolution . |
| 30 | In England an associated group was later to help form the Socialist League . |