Example sentences of "[prep] a state [prep] collapse " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 2 | He had n't expected either that the Mess would be in a château , that the furniture would be impressively of its period — no worn armchairs or bits of junk in a state of collapse from subalterns ' games , as so often to be found in the messes of his experience , or indeed that his welcome would be so unaffectedly cordial . |
| 3 | According to Houghton 's controller , Crabb had been brought on board the cruiser in a state of collapse from oxygen poisoning and later died in the sick-bay . |
| 4 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 5 | In 1975 there were only about forty university graduates in the country and the departure of the Portuguese settlers who had monopolized skilled and white-collar jobs left the economy in a state of collapse . |
| 6 | He paused a moment to let his words sink in , and then added : " Perhaps he 'll explain away the case , reported officially to the Royal College of Physicians , of a dispenser who accidentally swallowed some of the so-called " rice-water " matter voided by a patient in a state of collapse from cholera … but who suffered no ill-effects whatsoever ! " |
| 7 | Everything about them was in a state of collapse , because everything was cheap and badly constructed — the low-grade chunki-crete of the frameworks , the corroded metal that trimmed or braced . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 9 | And is it , as some writers have suggested , in a state of collapse ? |
| 10 | He was in a state of collapse . |
| 11 | The mistake of allied strategists was in imagining that such a regime could possibly be brought to a state of collapse by a decline in popular morale . |