Example sentences of "england [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 9 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 20 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 21 | DAVID PLATT , the Juventus midfielder , will captain England for the first time in the World Cup clash with San Marino at Wembley tonight . |
| 22 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 23 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 24 | The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches . |
| 25 | NEIL FOSTER , recalled by England for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's this week , was today fined £250 by his county Essex for his ‘ stump kicking ’ outburst . |
| 26 | His partnership of 322 with captain Javed Miandad set a new Pakistan record against England for the fourth wicket . |
| 27 | Richard Hannon fields two of the nine runners in the ‘ Heinz 57 ’ Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown and his Son Pardo can bring the prize back to England for the eighth time in nine years . |
| 28 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 29 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 30 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |