Example sentences of "[verb] [art] present state " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There is no chance of maintaining the present state of affairs , " he added . |
| 2 | ‘ The situation and the fertility of this bottom gave rise to reflections touching the present state of the labouring classes , who , in dungeon-like cellars , and bye allies , eke out a miserable existence , while with infinitely greater comfort to themselves , and honour and profit to the affluent , they might enjoy , in vast happiness , such peaceful and sequestered abodes as Gillerthwaite . ’ |
| 3 | Given the present state of understanding regarding the causes and appropriate forms of intervention for children with language difficulties , this kind of short-cut is likely to lead to inadequate assessment and ineffective treatment . |
| 4 | derating with the introduction of the poll tax and , given the present state of agriculture , there is considerable concern about what will happen under the council tax . |
| 5 | B R says such rises were inevitable given the present state of its finances . |
| 6 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 7 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 8 | Diagnosing the present state . |
| 9 | The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace 's dream of a theory of science , a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic : one certainly can not predict future events exactly if one can not even measure the present state of the universe precisely ! |
| 10 | The lack of theoretical discussion reflects the present state of our understanding : we have , on the one hand , only the rather simple philosophical approaches to indexicals ( covering just some aspects of person , time and place deixis ) , and , on the other hand , amass of complicated linguistic facts , to which some preliminary order has been brought by the work of Fillmore and Lyons in particular . |
| 11 | The answer is that if we find the present state of affairs unsatisfactory , we have an obligation to try to come up with something better . |
| 12 | Here the resulting effect is to emphatically assert a present state . |
| 13 | We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being , who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it . |
| 14 | Searching consists of trying to find a way to change the present state of affairs into some desired state . |
| 15 | Here at last was the starting point for a science that would attempt to explain the present state of the earth and its inhabitants in terms of natural processes acting over long periods of time . |
| 16 | Forbes was inspired in this direction by the work of Charles Lyell , whose uniformitarian approach to geology stressed the use of observable processes to explain the present state of the earth ( chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | The hon. Lady will know that the market value of such houses will reflect the present state of agriculture and the demand for such houses . |
| 18 | To act in the heat of passion is to perpetuate a present state , not to initiate a new one ; for something new to come in , space has to be made . |