Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [prep] [art] state " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 2 | But if we ca n't then we take him out of Saint Christopher 's next year and put him in a state school . |
| 3 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 4 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 5 | I visit many manufacturing companies and ask them about the state of their order books . |