Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] england [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 3 | He had sentenced the entire General Synod of the Church of England to death . |
| 4 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
| 5 | During his time as Bishop of Woolwich , responsible for an area stretching from the inner-city boroughs of South London to the Surrey commuter belt , David Sheppard conducted a survey of 150 parishes to show the electoral roll members of the Church of England as a percentage of the total population . |
| 6 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 7 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
| 8 | The General Synod of the Church of England on Nov. 11 approved , with the necessary two-thirds majority in each of its three houses , a measure to permit the ordination of women priests . |
| 9 | He took a far more realistic approach to the revival and certainly did not share their conviction that the Oxford Movement would lead to the reunion of the Church of England with the Church of Rome . |
| 10 | East Anglia University Additional Sponsors : Norwich Diocese of the Church of England via Norvicase ( Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility ) Norwich Industrial Mission ; |
| 11 | Neo-Gothic in turrets and corridors and battlements , it was founded by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Oxford opposite the front gate of his palace , and then developed by two of the leaders of the Church of England in Queen Victoria 's days into the foremost training college of that Catholic tradition . |
| 12 | Ken was educated at Winchester School and then at New College , Oxford , where , together with senior and junior members of the university , he worshipped according to the liturgy of the Church of England in defiance of the laws of the Cromwellian regime . |
| 13 | Such an understanding of reality on the part of a Catholic conservative was well expressed by the Anglican bishop Graham Leonard , in his speech against the ordination of women to the General Synod of the Church of England in 1978 . |
| 14 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 15 | The poems appealed to members of the Church of England by their reverence for holy places , holy offices and seasons ; but they were also admired by Puritans and Nonconformists for their praise of the Scriptures and for their portrayal of a soul reasoning with , and even wrestling with , its Maker . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the efforts of conservative historians , although they have done much to restore the image of the Church of England after 1830 , have done little to qualify the depiction of the period from the early eighteenth century to that date as a " phase of prolonged , rapid , and disastrous decline " . |
| 17 | Then take Leonard 's speech to the General Synod of the Church of England before the crucial vote on the ordination of women to the priesthood in 1978 . |
| 18 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 19 | The union of the comté to England in 1279 gave Ponthieu an administration in which Englishmen served , as they served in the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 20 | , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre . |
| 21 | A wealth of fascinating history lies within the very name of the Hundred House Hotel which refers to the ancient subdivisions of the shires of England into areas known as ‘ hundreds ’ . |
| 22 | It is important to remember the political position of the monarchy in England at the time . |
| 23 | No reported appeal by a patient in Scotland has exactly mirrored the circumstances of the case in England to which Bluglass refers . |
| 24 | The history of the convention in England since the 1770s , however , more frequently indicated its possibilities for focusing ‘ pressure from without ’ on the political class than it pointed to a fully fledged anti-parliament . |
| 25 | One gentleman who braved the bumps and pitfalls of the post-coach from England in 1846 was Thomas de Quincey , the son of a Manchester merchant . |
| 26 | Once William and his wife Mary ( who had a better claim to the throne than her husband ) were established as joint rulers in England they had , like the Republic thirty years earlier , to bring the rest of the territories of the King of England into obedience to the new authority . |
| 27 | In fact the murder of Thomas Becket by four knights of the king of England in his own cathedral in 1170 , sealed the fate of the royal position . |
| 28 | An exhibition of watercolours , which opens tomorrow at Abbot Hall Art Gallery , Kendal , will emphasise the love of the North of England of two noted artists , Norman Adams and the late Basil Rocke ( writes a correspondent ) . |
| 29 | However , the son of the Duke of Lancaster landed forces from France , whilst Richard I was in Ireland , and raised the people of the north of England against the ‘ tyranny ’ of Richard II . |
| 30 | Better known , however , and models for the country , were those established in the Nottingham hosiery trade in 1860 and by the ironmaster David Dale in the iron trade of the North of England in 1869 . |