Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The latest United Nations report on the state of the environment in Africa says that virtually the whole continent is now being deforested at a rapid and accelerating pace . |
| 3 | All enterprises contributed 1 per cent of their wages fund to the State Employment Fund , established in May 1991 , to cover the cost of implementing the new law . |
| 4 | Indians ' disillusion with the state is compounded by the failure of successive governments to deliver economic growth . |
| 5 | Veterans who returned to low-paid jobs without occupational pension schemes now depend upon the state retirement pension . |
| 6 | In each case it is elderly people living alone who obtain the most support from the state , and among them men receive slightly more than women . |
| 7 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 8 | In 1920 , the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified , having reached the necessary three-quarters support among the State Legislatures : as figure 5.4 shows , however , all of the recalcitrant Legislatures were in the country 's southeast , with only Tennessee in the area of the Confederacy voting for the Amendment . |
| 9 | But the bottom line for most of BP 's 8,000 Scottish employees are the indicators which the results give about the state of the company 's ‘ core ’ exploration and production business based on operations in the North Sea and other areas where it has concentrated its upstream operating resources . |
| 10 | The initials stand for the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme . |
| 11 | However , by s 6 of the 1907 Act , a limited partner may by himself or his agent at any time inspect the books of the firm and look into the state and prospects of the partnership business , and may advise with the partners thereon . |
| 12 | Buckingham Palace said yesterday that most of the rooms normally open in the State Apartments will re-open on January 16 . |
| 13 | I was somewhat dishevelled and unshaven : ‘ Look at the state of you [ he exclaimed ] . |
| 14 | ‘ Look at the state of me. — I would n't get very far , would I ? ’ |
| 15 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 16 | Look at the state of the casing flanges , will you ? |
| 17 | Look at the state of you |
| 18 | They survive on amino acids and look at the state of them . ’ |
| 19 | Look at the state of those shoes |
| 20 | A DRINK-DRIVER who killed two young girls stumbled from his wrecked BMW and said : ‘ Look at the state of my car . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Just look at the state of this room . |
| 24 | ‘ Look at the state of this place ! |
| 25 | Look at the state of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Gawd help us all , look at the state of you ! |
| 27 | Look at the state of me now ! ’ |
| 28 | Just look at the state of the floor and those windows . |
| 29 | However , both of these look at the state of the goods upon delivery . |
| 30 | 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 . |