Example sentences of "be in [art] state of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm trying to say is , when you 're in the state of consciousness triggered by sexual stimulation , you should be able to breach time and space . |
| 2 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 3 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 4 | I think she must have been in a state of shock . |
| 5 | And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well . |
| 6 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 7 | Thereafter , with its circulation collapsing , it had been in a state of crisis . |
| 8 | Bowe represents the new order in heavyweight boxing , which has been in a state of confusion and flux since the day Buster Douglas shocked the world by knocking out Tyson in Tokyo two years ago . |
| 9 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 10 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 11 | Union competition for membership reflects the relatively unstable condition of union organization in Spain , which has been in a state of flux and development since the restoration of trade union rights . |
| 12 | For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear . |
| 13 | Whereas both vertical and horizontal lines have stability , sloping lines are in a state of change from one condition to the other . |
| 14 | Inside their families , too , their roles are in a state of flux , with the past , the peasant past , the tribal past , the colonial past each with its own particular prescription for the woman 's role constantly intruding into the present . |
| 15 | Back in the world of conventional spreadsheets , the fact that many organisations are in a state of flux between the DOS operating system and Windows is posing a marketing problem for software vendors . |
| 16 | In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time . |
| 17 | Lucas maintains that , in an economy in which all nominal prices are rising , workers face a twofold ‘ signal extraction ’ problem ( see Sheffrin , 1983 ) : ( a ) ascertaining whether the real supply price of labour is changing when all other prices are in a state of flux ; ( b ) evaluating the temporary and permanent components of a change in real wages which , in the light of ( a ) , may accompany across the board changes in prices . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ The letter suggests the employers have got a spy network in place , indicating they are in a state of war with their own workers . |
| 19 | When we are in a state of disease then the smooth calm surface is disrupted by ripples ( or even waves ! ) spreading out from the site of disturbance . |
| 20 | We are in a state of perplexity . |
| 21 | If it is not , then they are asked to leave for a year and are in a state of limbo , unable to play on the Tour and unable to play in amateur events . ’ |
| 22 | He stared at her in amazement , then again mocked , ‘ My goodness — we are in a state of tizziness . ’ |
| 23 | In its 1988 survey , the Commission found that ‘ the condition of trees is poor ’ but ‘ no trend can be established ’ , so it was ‘ not possible to determine … whether the trees in the United Kingdom are in a state of decline ’ . |
| 24 | When we have allowed this state to dominate us we are in the state of apathy . |
| 25 | I 'm in a state of shock . ’ |
| 26 | When I get ‘ taken out to lunch ’ I 'm in a state of shock for a week . |
| 27 | Navarro Wolff declared AD/M-19 to be in a state of emergency and it was reported that its leaders had been concentrated in one place to resist arrest . |
| 28 | The confused horse will be in a state of conflict , torn between two or more courses of action . |
| 29 | Woil stared round at him and seemed to be in a state of shock . |
| 30 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |