Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] england " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1360 and more particularly in the 1370s the war went badly for England . |
| 2 | It should be stressed that even when the war was going badly for England , the partnership secured profits , which remained in England , even although the gains ultimately passed to other hands than those of the partners . |
| 3 | ROS : Are we all right for England ? |
| 4 | Luckily for England , Miandad was not given the opportunity to haunt them much longer . |
| 5 | JOHN FASHANU last night told Alan Shearer : ‘ You are still not good enough for England ! ’ |
| 6 | The old man found that amusing , but he said , ‘ Can you remember much about England ? |
| 7 | On the second morning , the innings was finished off for 265 , only for England to collapse dismally . |
| 8 | For another thing , he has restored the balance of evidence on whether the English — it is only about England that he writes — were brutal and violent people . |
| 9 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 10 | He had carried his bat through the innings , the first to do so for England at Lord 's , thus winning another campaign medal of note . |
| 11 | For Europe generally this is something of an exaggeration , but it is not so for England . |
| 12 | IAN HUNTER 'S freak injury means Tony and Rory Underwood become the first brothers to play together for England since the war tomorrow . |
| 13 | The last brothers to line up together for England were Coventry forwards Arthur and Harold Wheatley , against Scotland at Twickenham in 1938 . |
| 14 | Hobbs , Hutchings , Hardstaff and Humphries played together for England in 1908 , for example , and Hassett , Hole , Harvey and Hill played for Australia in two matches of the Coronation series , Hunte , Holford , Hendriks and Hall were all picked for West Indies in 1966 , and Hedley Howarth , two Hadlees and Hastings played for New Zealand in 1974 . |
| 15 | It happened again on Thursday , when the people not only of England but of the United Kingdom as a whole blew a resounding raspberry at all the wise men , the opinion pollsters most of all . |
| 16 | But he is unusual , he is straight , and he is entirely of England . |
| 17 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 18 | Last season 's top scorer Mark Bright returned to the attack , after being left out at the start of the season , to hit two goals in as many games and clear the way for Warhurst to finally go , especially with England Under-21 striker Chris Bart-Williams also pressing for a starting spot . |
| 19 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 20 | By the twelfth century , especially in England , juries could be used to provide information , to answer such questions as : who were the notorious criminals of the neighbourhood ? — or , who had held a particular plot of land in the recent past ? |
| 21 | Famous in his lifetime , court painter to King George III , Ramsay 's genius has subsequently remained a well-kept secret , especially in England . |
| 22 | This same period also brought , especially in England , much criticism of traditional Christian creeds and doctrines , notably that of the divinity of Jesus Christ , and the emergence of Unitarianism — a form of Christian belief which rejected Christ 's divinity and the doctrine of the Trinity , holding simply ( as its name indicates ) to the oneness of God the Father as the only God . |
| 23 | That too , as we shall see , is what some other schools would recommend , especially in England , where the main stream of Anglican theology has been strongly critical of Barth 's ‘ one-sidedness ’ . |
| 24 | Especially in England , this term traditionally refers to independent , fee-charging , but non-profit-making , secondary schools belonging to various highly prestigious associations . |
| 25 | Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the United Kingdom causing about 10000 deaths annually in England and Wales alone . |
| 26 | Of course , she had known that more unofficial arrangements were common enough in England . |
| 27 | Its impact upon the Church was considerable — especially perhaps in England ; its conclusions were chiefly to do with discipline , and its provision requiring annual confession and Communion , remains today . |
| 28 | Harthacnut was thus evidently thought to have a claim , which his housecarls ( if they were not simply inherited from his father ) were perhaps in England to safeguard . |
| 29 | At the same time it seems fair to say that until recently , writing about Proust , particularly perhaps in England , but in France , too , has concentrated too much and too exclusively on the social element in the dualism , has concentrated too much , if you like , on the nose and the beard . |
| 30 | This was particularly so in England and Wales adjacent to the dairying areas . |