Example sentences of "of the [noun] of england " in BNC.
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| 31 | Following disestablishment in 1923 , the Church in Wales has been quite independent of the Church of England . |
| 32 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 33 | On her left sat her second son , Henry George Farrier , twenty-eight , a newly fledged parson of the Church of England . |
| 34 | ( For example , in December 1989 the Sunday Times reported that a MORI poll showed that 75% of members of the Church of England supported the idea of women priests . ) |
| 35 | The speaker is Stephen , another ordinary member of the Church of England . |
| 36 | Here it is the failure of the Church of England to ordain women that causes strains . |
| 37 | But the ever-increasing majority of church members who want women to be ordained as priests have consciences too : they are hurt by the slowness of the Church of England 's response and feel bound to follow what they see as a movement of the Holy Spirit in our time . |
| 38 | Contrast this example of Christian compassion with the recent debate of the General Synod of the Church of England meeting last July at York . |
| 39 | This Society , which later changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society , sought to make churches more worthy settings for worship and for the liturgy of the Church of England . |
| 40 | He was a fervent high-churchman but abhorred any association between the high-church wing of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 41 | The General Synod of the Church of England and the Methodist Conference were the events ; as you expect they are quite different . |
| 42 | It is a long book giving the dates and details of rulers , officers of state , archbishops and bishops , dukes and marquesses , parliaments and assemblies , and councils of the Church of England . |
| 43 | Council for the Care of Churches ( London ) Established in 1921 , the principal collection is the National Survey of Churches , including photographs and guide books on almost all the 17,000 parish churches and associated chapels of the Church of England . |
| 44 | The CLB , founded by W. M. Gee , an ex-Volunteer officer and secretary of the Junior Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society , saw itself as an Anglican institution for the ‘ care and training of lads in Religion , Morals and Physique ’ during the important years prior to manhood . |
| 45 | Mr. Ferguson conducted these meetings regularly until early 1827 when he became an ordained minister of the Church of England and left the city . |
| 46 | The match is in aid of the Church of England Urban Fund for inner city projects . |
| 47 | I accept that the vote reflects accurately enough the majority view within the Synod of the Church of England . |
| 48 | It hath been the wisdom of the church of England , ever since the first compiling of her Publick Liturgy , to keep the mean between two extremes , of too much stiffness in refusing , and of too much easiness in admitting any variation from it … |
| 49 | It shows that there are areas in the life of the Church of England where confidence is high . |
| 50 | It may be asked , if there is among Anglican church planters a hesitation about wearing robes and if there is a positive desire to adapt the liturgy of the Church of England , why and in what way can they say that they remain Anglican ? |
| 51 | No one doubted that the disqualification remained in force so far as clergymen of the Church of England were concerned but the position of clergymen of the Irish Church remained in doubt until the election of one of them , the Rev. MacManaway , in 1950 . |
| 52 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 53 | the regulation of the Church of England . |
| 54 | ( e ) Measures of the Church of England Prior to 1919 , Parliament legislated for the established Church , the Church of England . |
| 55 | ‘ Establishment ’ today means very little outside the sphere of the purely formal and ceremonial and the devotion of the time of Parliament to the tedious and time-consuming task of regulating the affairs of the Church of England has long been recognised as anachronistic . |
| 56 | Since the passing of the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919 , Parliament 's role in relation to the legislation of the Church has been largely formal . |
| 57 | A working party of the Church of England 's Board for Social Responsibility stated in 1979 : |
| 58 | One of the Church of England 's most eminent theologians criticised the Diocese for actions which suggested ‘ a positive eagerness to humiliate and exclude those whom the parish and LGCM seek to help ’ , and ‘ a readiness to follow secular fashion in harassing and rejecting homosexuals . ’ |
| 59 | For left-liberal ideas , that would guarantee a future of comic irrelevance , on a par with the doctrinal wrangles of the Church of England . |
| 60 | There were some individual exceptions but the state of the Church of England seems to have changed little in Sussex over the next ninety years . |