Example sentences of "[verb] at the state " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second of his special reports into the crime debate , Bernard Ponsonby looks at the state of Scotland 's police and their ability to combat crime . |
| 2 | The two 15-feet-high statues were manufactured at the state plant in St Petersburg but , following the soviet collapse , were never claimed by those who commissioned them . |
| 3 | Looking at the state of tax law in the UK , one might be forgiven for concluding that the effect is extremely limited . |
| 4 | Tomorrow Ronnie Convery will have the last of his special reports looking at the state of Christianity in Scotland . |
| 5 | ‘ Looking at the state of the pitch on television , ’ he adds , ‘ they could easily argue that such an application would be an environmental improvement . ’ |
| 6 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 7 | I was somewhat dishevelled and unshaven : ‘ Look at the state of you [ he exclaimed ] . |
| 8 | ‘ Look at the state of me. — I would n't get very far , would I ? ’ |
| 9 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 10 | Look at the state of the casing flanges , will you ? |
| 11 | Look at the state of you |
| 12 | They survive on amino acids and look at the state of them . ’ |
| 13 | Look at the state of those shoes |
| 14 | A DRINK-DRIVER who killed two young girls stumbled from his wrecked BMW and said : ‘ Look at the state of my car . ’ |
| 15 | If we look at the state of our imaginative literature , we must observe in it a grossness , even an indecency of conception , and an inflowing tide of slang and vulgarity and other forms of ugliness which tend to corrupt imagination and barbarize language . |
| 16 | He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework . |
| 17 | Just look at the state of this room . |
| 18 | ‘ Look at the state of this place ! |
| 19 | Look at the state of it . |
| 20 | ‘ Gawd help us all , look at the state of you ! |
| 21 | Look at the state of me now ! ’ |
| 22 | Just look at the state of the floor and those windows . |
| 23 | However , both of these look at the state of the goods upon delivery . |
| 24 | You go into various parts of the er south west , where their labour control and you look at the state of their buildings , and you think , my God , what on earth have the elected members been doing when you actually see the level of rates that they have set . |
| 25 | Look at the state of the path , it 's all wet mud . |
| 26 | Look at the state of you ! |
| 27 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 28 | Look at the state of the , the woodwork looks tatty and |
| 29 | Look at the state of your hands . |
| 30 | oh sugar that 's on my school jumper , look at the state of that |