Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a state [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | Everything would then be crowded together in a state of infinite density : the end of the universe . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , the Chou believed that Heaven and Earth were once inextricably mixed together in a state of undifferentiated chaos , like a chicken 's egg . |
| 5 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 6 | An individual in doubt about his/her true nature is constantly in a state of distress . ’ |
| 7 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 8 | It is alive and ever changing , constantly in a state of flux — and often flowing away from us . |
| 9 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
| 10 | The surface of a liquid is thus in a state of tension — it is always trying to contract . |
| 11 | Then he gets low and is already in a state of anxiety which tends to make him make poor judgements . |
| 12 | The area to the south of Saville Street which had been the commercial centre for the port was already in a state of decay with banks , etc. moving north towards residential areas . |
| 13 | ‘ T is already in a state of uproar , ready for that ambitious husband of hers to pluck it like an over-ripe plum , rotting and falling from the tree , and — ’ |
| 14 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 15 | ‘ Now Jason 's just in a state of shock . |
| 16 | A few days ago an unco-operative van would have sent him back indoors in a state of deep despair . |
| 17 | The person may pass gradually into a state of unconsciousness . |
| 18 | One is always in a state of learning — if you stop learning it 's hopeless , I feel . |
| 19 | Rather than being a finished product , we are always in a state of dynamic change : becoming more or less ‘ human ’ , or ‘ personal ’ , or indeed ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 20 | Thus the upper class shows no sign of weakening culturally or politically , even if its economic base is once more in a state of change . |
| 21 | Haverford came home in a state of nervous excitement . |
| 22 | Although the two Korean states remained technically in a state of war ( the hostilities having been ended in 1953 by an armistice but not a peace treaty ) , many commentators felt that the December agreements laid a realistic foundation for the negotiation of a full peace treaty . |
| 23 | Chapman said later that Cleese , his writing partner at Cambridge and afterwards on the Frost , Marty Feldman and At Last the 1948 shows , ‘ was still in a state of shock ’ . |
| 24 | Victim Support 's trained volunteers offer an immediate response when people are still in a state of shock , giving encouragement , support and information . |
| 25 | The whole town was still in a state of shock . |
| 26 | Unlike Hobbes , Locke believes that people under an absolute authority are not really in civil society ; effectively they are still in a state of nature , for they may need to defend their rights against that authority . |
| 27 | PC Golby , still in a state of shock and incredulity , ran the few yards to the turnpike cottage . |
| 28 | Howard , still in a state of shock , stared at Newman . |
| 29 | The minds of the legislators were still in a state of confusion . |
| 30 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |