Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Thomas ( 1963 ) wrote , people were affected by trains to some extent even in the most remote parts of England during the latter half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ZEPPELINS of World War One by Wilbur Cross , tells of the little-known aerial battles that took place over England during the Great War , when Germany attempted to paralyse the British by dropping tons of bombs from a fleet of super-Zeppelins . |
| 6 | Some histories say he returned to England during the Great War , but most comment that he spent the war years in Australia and New Zealand before returning to Surrey in 1919 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a Jumièges monk , some of his information may have derived from its former abbot , Robert , who became bishop of London and then in 1051 archbishop of Canterbury , but fled England during the political crisis of 1052 , subsequently returning to Jumièges , where he died . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | He scored 189 runs in three undefeated innings against England during the past week . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The Dutch Souterliedekens with tunes only were published at Antwerp in 1540 and in England during the same period Miles Coverdale brought out his Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes , also with tunes only ( c. 1543 ) , while Francis Seagar 's selection of 19 Certayne Psalmes ( London , 1553 ) are all accommodated to two four-part compositions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 18 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 23 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 24 | The survey examines the industrial espionage practiced by the French in England through the eighteenth century , almost invariably directed and organised by the French state , and the many important French administrators , technologists , scientists and industrialists involved . |
| 25 | This provides for service , directly upon the addressee and without the use of any form of compulsion , by consular agents and also for the use of the indirect consular channel , service being effected in France through the procureur de la République within whose area the addressee was to be found , and in England through the Senior Master of the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 27 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 28 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 29 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 30 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |