Example sentences of "[prep] a state [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He travelled abroad incessantly , making at least two major foreign visits a year : in 1989 , for instance , he carried out official visits to Britain , France , Finland and West Germany , visited Cuba , East Germany and China , took part in the first-ever summit between the Soviet Union and Ireland during a stop-over at Shannon airport , and still found time to meet the new US President George Bush in December after a state visit to Italy and a first-ever meeting with the Pope . |
| 2 | Using the milk/newspapers context has made them seen trivial : few people would find sensible the idea of a state monolith in milk supply or rigorous persecution of small-time dealers in newspapers by some all-seeing agency . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , the pluralism of programme companies , the coexistence of private and public radio stations — in the 1930S as in the 1980S — has led some to observe : perhaps the period 1945–81 , of a state monopoly of transmission networks and of programming , was a hiatus , an aberration in the tradition of French broadcasting . |
| 4 | The 1930s also saw a vigorous campaign for better pensions for women , which led to the introduction of a state pension for women at the age of sixty in 1940 . |
| 5 | In 1940 , Lola Hahn-Warburg and Elaine Blond for the RCM joined with the Council for German Jewry to appeal for a state support for Youth Allyah . |
| 6 | Over those years he produced another serenata , Il rè pastore ( King as Shepherd ) , to a text by the famous Italian poet Pietro Metastasio ( whose texts were set to music countless times all over Europe by the best composers of the time ) for a state visit by Archduke Maximilian Franz ; another serenade ( K.204 ) written for the traditional end-of-term jollities at the university ; and several violin concertos , of which the last three ( in G , D and A major ) are standard repertoire today . |
| 7 | During a state visit to France on April 9-11 Walesa and French President Mitterrand signed a 10-year treaty of friendship and solidarity , the first of its kind to be signed by the Third Polish Republic with a Western country . |
| 8 | A bilateral economic agreement with China was signed in Beijing on June 30 during a state visit by Ershad . |
| 9 | Having no wish to repeat the experience we had had with our son at Liphook Junior School , our daughter , having left Liphook Infants School last summer , now goes to a state school in Haslemere . |
| 10 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 11 | Prisoners in Nebraska are paid 17.5 per cent commission — the same as outside employees — but the inmates have to pay $1.25 an hour back to the prison and another five per cent of their wages to a state fund for crime victims . |
| 12 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 13 | When President Shagari went on a state visit to Britain in March 1981 , the large press corps accompanying him included no representative of any ‘ opposition ’ newspaper or broadcasting organisation . |
| 14 | The Sultan who 's thought to be the richest man in the world , is on a state visit to Britain . |
| 15 | With this hope , he and Eugénie set out in August 1867 on a state visit to Austria to meet the Emperor Franz-Joseph at Salzburg . |
| 16 | When Lugard arrived in October 1912 on a state visit to Zungeru , Temple not only failed to vacate his headquarters for Lugard 's use , as Lugardian protocol apparently demanded , but left the Governor-General to remain on his official train and bake in the African sun . |
| 17 | When the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League was formed by Ho in 1925 its nucleus consisted of Vietnamese terrorists , the Tam Tam Xa , who had already attempted the assassination of a French Governor-General on a state visit to Canton , and Canton became a staging-post for the return of young Vietnamese revolutionaries who might now declare themselves to be Marxists as well . |
| 18 | President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani arrived in Islamabad on Sept. 6 on a state visit to Pakistan where it was reported that protocols were signed providing for increased political , economic and defence co-operation . |
| 19 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 20 | Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University . |
| 21 | In addition to his failure to secure major deficit-reducing trade measures , Bush 's visit to Japan was marred by his spectacular collapse at a state banquet on Jan. 8 . |
| 22 | This did not prevent him falling off his chair and being sick on the Japanese premier at a state dinner in Japan earlier this year , an embarrassing incident captured by the TV cameras . |
| 23 | This scheme was replaced in 1946 by a state scheme for victims of industrial accidents and prescribed industrial diseases . |
| 24 | The announcement was preceded on Feb. 6-8 , 1989 , by a state visit to Morocco by the Algerian President , Chadli Bendjedid , when an agreement was signed enabling the transportation of Algerian natural gas to Europe by pipeline through Morocco ( see p. 36507 for September 1988 discussions ) ; 1,500 km of the 2,000-km pipeline would cross Morocco to Tangier , 225 km north-east of Rabat ; in return Morocco would receive subsidized oil and natural gas from Algeria . |
| 25 | Years of struggle for legitimation and equal status with West Germany were crowned by a state visit to Paris and a historic official visit to West Germany . |