Example sentences of "[noun] of england [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , Kalli was soon out for 158 , but his contribution helped West Indies to a decisive first-innings lead of 261 and , ultimately , an easy seven-wicket victory — their first defeat of England in the Caribbean for 20 years . |
| 2 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |
| 3 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |
| 4 | The incident of the Karin B , a ship carrying toxic wastes from Europe , illegally imported to Nigeria , which could not find a home and landed up on the south coast of England in the summer of 1987 , demonstrated that millions of tonnes of highly toxic waste are being shipped around the globe . |
| 5 | ’ It is most important that the French should be aware of the united action of England with the other powers , the knowledge of it will have a most wholesome influence on the French government . ’ |
| 6 | the continuation of Oxford Street ( now Bayswater Road , west London ) was the main highway from London to the west of England in the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Commentators such as Brockway ( 1932 ) found appalling rural housing conditions in many areas of England between the wars : dwellings were in physically poor condition and insanitary , lacking water , electricity , ventilation or light . |
| 8 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 9 | Overall there appears to have been very little exchange between Kent and other areas of England in the sixth and seventh centuries , but where there is a potential link it may indicate the direction of alliances between groups . |
| 10 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 11 | It has a steady , auto-nomous source of money ( the social therapy business ) , and its followers are far better integrated into the mainstream of American life , with no Moonie-like flower sales , no Charlie Manson eyes , no anti-Semitism loosely cloaked in ravings about the Queen of England in the style of LaRouche . |
| 12 | Massive forces were assembled in the south of England under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower , and on 6 June — D-Day — landings took place on the beaches of Normandy ( CORE , pp. 66–7 ) . |
| 13 | He bore greetings from the Chancellor of England to the Lord Bruce and sought an audience with him . |
| 14 | On they came , ever more appearing over the crest of the ridge , the might of England on the move , the first major and full-scale invasion of Scotland since Bannockburn . |
| 15 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 16 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 17 | The third question is so closely related to changes in the forms of rural settlement and to the growth and decline of towns that it is best considered in these contexts ; the present chapter will concentrate on the scale of mortality and the fluctuations in the total population of England in the century and a half before 1529 . |
| 18 | For studying the economy it matters little whether the population of England in the 1520s had recovered to the level it had reached before the Black Death . |
| 19 | Well I I want to have a big picture of England on the wall on which I can start to tick off bits as we get them . |
| 20 | The economic development of England between the mid fourteenth and the early sixteenth century was determined by changes in the country 's population more than by any other single factor . |
| 21 | So great were the variations that no student of medieval agriculture would nowadays dare to assemble all the medieval agrarian institutions into a portmanteau model capable of accommodating the whole of England during the whole of the Middle Ages . |
| 22 | Stephen of Blois , the son of William I youngest daughter , was favoured by the Barons and was crowned King of England by the end of 1133 , but for a number of years he was imprisoned by the Barons during civil war . |
| 23 | His eldest son — also John Sich — was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Chiswick Volunteers formed at the time of the threatened invasion of England by the forces of Napoleon . |
| 24 | Thus , damply and noisily , ended the invasion of England by the Young pretender ; the whole campaign south of the Border had lasted less than six weeks . |
| 25 | Along the British leg of the journey Richard Groom , Richard Lang Burns and Shaun Williamson collected signatures from mayors and other civic dignitaries for a scroll sending a message of goodwill from the people of England to the other European countries . |
| 26 | At least he is able , so long as the money holds out , to preserve his own patch of England against the depredations of progress . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 28 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |
| 29 | He had no doubt that his own recognition of Urban II was irreversible ; but he could not commit the kingdom of England to the choice which he had made in common with the rest of Normandy . |
| 30 | It would not be surprising if Malcolm renewed his efforts c.1016-18 , considering the likely state of England at the time , and Cnut could well have acted against him once free to do so . |