Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 2 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 3 | Laxton , in Nottinghamshire , is the only surviving example of the open field farming system which was common to much of Midland England between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Graham Gooch has been given the go-ahead to lead England through the entire Ashes series |
| 5 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 6 | Dropped by England for the recent Tests against Canada and South Africa , Probyn has responded by helping Wasps to the top of the Courage League and impressing colleagues and opponents alike . |
| 7 | Making all decisions and directing all developments through his estate and colliery stewards , Lowther vigorously expanded his collieries , selling their produce to ships freighting to Dublin , and planned and developed the port town of Whitehaven , the first planned town built in England after the middle ages . |
| 8 | The shock waves of this political explosion engulfed the whole of Europe , so that by 1848 only England of the major nations had not experienced a revolution . |
| 9 | ‘ This was , of course , the true England of the industrial provinces , of blood-black brick and scurrying wind and workers ’ faces clenched tight against the adversity of short-time working and the memory of last month 's narrow miss on the pools . ’ |
| 10 | Reynolds may have admired and borrowed from Michelangelo , and while this could be said to represent , perhaps , a long-standing tradition of cultural domination — or the domination in England of the Italianate tastes of the English upper classes — it would be a mistake to make too much of this . |
| 11 | He was often aware of the which defended the realm of England against the Scottish raiders and then back to the Celtic saints coming out of Scotland into Northumbria . |
| 12 | Irving and Hilgendorf 's ( 1975 ) data ( table 5.6 ) broadly support Gasson , who found , using a rather finer regionalization , that the parts of England with the highest proportions of full-time agricultural workers in tied accommodation were the South West and the South East . |
| 13 | ’ It is most important that the French should be aware of the united action of England with the other powers , the knowledge of it will have a most wholesome influence on the French government . ’ |
| 14 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 15 | Today at Kenilworth Road , Luton , Argentina will again provide the opposition for England in the Four Nations Lada Classic . |
| 16 | Indeed , the cathedral monastery , like Canterbury or Durham , was something peculiar to England in the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | These are found generally over England in the Middle Ages , although surviving examples are now found only in Wales and the West Country . |
| 18 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 19 | The " ceremonious stomachs " of Russian ambassadors " whose Nation stands so much on Ceremony " were the subject of comment in England in the early years of the century , as they had already been in the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 20 | England call : Mark Reppion , a member of the Speke Gemini Boxing Club , will compete for England in the Golden Gloves tournament in Glasgow tomorrow . |
| 21 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 22 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 23 | As long ago as 1940 , Mannheim produced a report on the social aspects of crime in England in the inter-war years . |
| 24 | The movement had had an enormous impact on Christian leaders throughout England in the previous years — few churches have not benefited from the faith and New Testament life of the movement . |
| 25 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It was the fastest hundred in a Test match in England since the heady days of 1981 , and as a gambler 's last throw , it was in the same class as Botham 's 149 . |
| 28 | CHEN XINHUA , the England champion from Yorkshire , played a crucial role for England at the European championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 29 | Of all the forests established in England by the Norman kings , some remnants of the ancient Forest system still survive in three . |