Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ireland is still witnessed as a state in some indefinable way opposed to England . |
| 2 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 3 | In 1940 , Lola Hahn-Warburg and Elaine Blond for the RCM joined with the Council for German Jewry to appeal for a state support for Youth Allyah . |
| 4 | On Aug. 29 , 1990 , the government announced drastic energy-saving measures to reduce fuel consumption , including the introduction of rationing vouchers to achieve a 50 and 30 per cent cut in petrol and diesel supplies for the state sector and private vehicles respectively . |
| 5 | Because of illness , Allitt 's period of training was extended but she qualified as a State Enrolled Nurse in late 1990 . |
| 6 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 7 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 8 | The two leaders attended a news conference at the close of their talks at which Assad confirmed that Syria would " adhere to the peace process " ; Israel , he contended , was eventually " bound to appear as a state which does not want peace " . |
| 9 | ‘ How do you know about the state he 's in ? ’ said Nessie . |
| 10 | And If what you say about the state of his finances is true then he 'd have every reason for faking his death to escape the music . |
| 11 | I trembled for the state of the upholstery . |
| 12 | She trained as a state registered and registered mental nurse before moving into community development with a voluntary organisation . |
| 13 | The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision . |
| 14 | The bill , which still had to pass through the state Senate , was likely to be vetoed by Governor James Blanchard . |
| 15 | In a closed system the given amount of initial free energy becomes less readily available as the system develops towards a state with maximum entropy , where entropy signifies the degree to which energy has become unable to perform work . |
| 16 | To a less immediately visible extent the institution of policing is also set up to control those who would publicly demonstrate against the state and its executive powers . |
| 17 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 18 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 19 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 20 | The facts that huissiers are appointed or licensed by the state and have a defined role in Codes of Civil Procedure in respect of service enable them to be treated as in a similar position to the competent state officials , and direct communication from huissier to huissier ( who will then act in the state of destination to involve the local parquet ) can be authorised . |
| 21 | However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat . |
| 22 | Later , a government-backed radio statement singled out alleged attempts by environmentalist to " frustrate " the timber industry in Sarawak , and deplored the fact that campaigners who had been arrested for crimes committed in the state were treated as " heroes and martyrs " by the environmental movement . |
| 23 | Mukhriddin Ashurov , commander of the force in Tajikistan , had already resigned from the State Council . |
| 24 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |
| 25 | Johnson mordantly remarked that the only propaganda for such a conference emanated from the State Department ; he endorsed the recommendations of the joint chiefs that no conference be held . |
| 26 | An increase of 51.7 per cent was forecast in the state development budget owing to increased foreign assistance contributions and project loans . |
| 27 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 28 | Just as working class girls were included in the state provision of elementary education in 1870 and provided with an education which emphasised the virtues of good housewifery and domestic management , so the increased attention paid to the education of middle class girls during the late Victorian period — by male bureaucrats as well as female pioneers — may be seen as being as much a result of the general educational reform initiative of the period as of feminist ambition . |
| 29 | Later , the company submitted provisional accounts showing forecast losses so that these could be included in the state budget . |
| 30 | The first World Summit on Children sponsored by UNICEF in September adopted a 10-point programme for children 's rights [ see p. 37732 ] based on a series of recommendations contained in the State of the World 's Children 1988 report . |