Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] state of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of the problems of the emperorship and of the political state of kingdoms , such as England , and comtés , such as Toulouse , showed the pope as a world leader in a novel way . |
| 2 | He told the delegates that he was " tired of the impossible state of affairs in which I suffer bitter attacks from the outside … while I am also attacked by colleagues at home who sing the daily chorus of slander and besmirching " . |
| 3 | And so , in spite of our nostalgia for the days when Premier Harold Macmillan declared that Britain had ‘ never had it so good ’ , there was nothing at all unusual in the BMA 's diagnosis of the appalling state of morals in 1961 : |
| 4 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 5 | In this way Engels shows , through this complex history of human marriage , the historical basis of the present state of affairs . |
| 6 | From the point of view of the behavioural scientist , however , conflict may seem to be part of the steady state of organisations , so that cooperation , order and stability are more interesting phenomena to study . |
| 7 | The difference between Figures 2 and 3 is probably not important , each being just a different representation of what can only be a pale reflection of the true state of affairs , just as any illustration of the body 's organs is but a poor reflection of its true inner workings . |
| 8 | A certain Lieutenant-Colonel Driant , the Deputy ( parliamentary representative ) for Nancy , who in 1916 was serving in the Verdun sector , took the opportunity , when on leave in Paris , to inform the Army Commission and his brothel deputies of the true state of affairs . |
| 9 | The relations of capitalists and workers were therefore the product of a specific state of affairs , the ownership which had arisen in history and was not inevitable , or given in the laws of logic . |
| 10 | If ideas sound good and meet the needs of a current state of affairs , they will tend to be accepted in some simple assimilable form without being subjected to scrutiny . |
| 11 | We also have to interpret A's remark not only as a description of a particular state of affairs , but as a request for help , for instance . |