Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [art] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 2 | Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary . |
| 3 | Although still in a state of shock , Mr Singh has now appointed himself to the full chairmanship and , along with myself , represented the club at the funeral . |
| 4 | He would find her under sedation — a bit dopey and drowsy , and still in a state of some disorientation and shock . |
| 5 | Yet , despite an increase of spending on health in the UK from 3¼ per cent of national income in 1948 to over 6 per cent ( of a much larger national income ) forty years later , it is alleged that the NHS is underfunded and periodically in a state of near collapse . |
| 6 | What made Hiss significant was his impeccable background , his WASP family , his Harvard Law School education , his career on President Roosevelt 's wartime staff and then in the State Department Far Eastern section , his acquaintance with Dean Acheson , Adlai Stevenson and John Foster Dulles . |
| 7 | She was also flushed and evidently in a state of unrest , which made him feel chivalrous and sympathetic . |
| 8 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 9 | These remarks show Nietzsche 's attitude a stage further on , but still in a state of transition . |
| 10 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |