Example sentences of "[to-vb] the state of [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 They also agreed to relax the state of readiness of their forces and to reduce military exercises .
2 Try to assess the state of repair of the outside of the property on a scale of one to 10 .
3 The attempt is deliberately to alter the state of consciousness of the viewer .
4 An important factor was the need of the administrators to ascertain the state of knowledge of the employees of BCCI in order to show whether or not the Bank had knowingly participated in the fraud .
5 The restrictive nature of the domicile requirement was increased by the fact that under the Act of 1988 the burden of proof was borne by the applicant for registration ; however , evidence of a subjective intention was not easy to find especially since , where the applicant was a company , it would also be necessary to prove the state of mind of hundreds or thousands of shareholders .
6 It lives on as a reality which the poet seeks to ‘ revive within ’ him , to reconstruct the state of mind of the removed passion of the last four lines and the effortless delight of the first two stanzas .
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