Example sentences of "england have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries the Church of England has developed a complex set of laws to deal with internal matters , and deals with them in its own courts . |
| 2 | I have suggested in this article that an influential forum of scholars , critics and performers in England has felt a pervasive desire to direct a good deal of medieval and Renaissance music away from the ‘ medieval/Renaissance group ’ ( a tradition which has come to seem increasingly hollow , even bogus , to members of the forum ) and towards the best voices to emerge from the chapels attached to the Oxbridge colleges where , almost without exception , the members of the forum received their higher education . |
| 3 | The city of Leicester in central England has won a national energy-saving competition . |
| 4 | Freemasonry in England has negotiated a remarkable U-turn in the last three years due to the criticisms of church , state , its own embarrassed members , the police , the Press and the general public . |
| 5 | Halton council ( comprising the towns of Widnes and Runcorn ) in north-west England has signed a 20-year joint venture with a recently formed waste management company , Biomass Recycling , to reuse 98 per cent of the contents of domestic waste by 1995 . |
| 6 | Since the last time the survey was done ( 1976 ) , the south East of England has had a dreadful 82 per cent increase in the number of unfit houses . |
| 7 | Unix office software company , Uniplex Ltd , based in Hemel Hempstead , Herts , England has launched a professional services division , combining existing services and support with consultancy as well as Unix and Uniplex training for resellers and end-users . |
| 8 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 9 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 10 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 11 | As at Lord 's , it was Logie and Dujon who got the runs , but with Foster taking 5 for 64 they were all out for 183 , the first time England had taken a first-innings lead since the Lord 's game of 1984 . |
| 12 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 13 | Early check-ups in England had shown a normal pregnancy and she was looking forward to being able to indulge in her favourite French foods . |
| 14 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 15 | THE FIVE counties making up the south western corner of England have become a prime target for supermarket development . |
| 16 | The roads of England have attracted a considerable literature , and it might seem difficult to say anything very new . |
| 17 | England have taken a well-earned break after four games in the past three weeks , and with Platt proving his recovery from an ankle injury with the opening goal against Brazil on Sunday in Washington , manager Graham Taylor should be able to pick from a full squad . |