Example sentences of "[prep] [art] state [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The statement listed the members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( SCSE ) , formed " to run the country and effectively exercise the state of emergency " .
2 The post of vice-president was abolished — the former Vice-President , Gennady Yanayev , had been a member of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( SCSE ) which had seized power during the coup .
3 These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission .
4 It may be that the consul for the state of origin can serve documents only on nationals of his state , or he may be allowed to effect service on anyone in the area of his responsibility .
5 Salinas had forced the resignation of the PRI 's governor-elect for the state of Guanajuato on Aug. 29 following similar protests [ see p. 38385 ] ; both cases were seen as important victories for the country 's fledgling civil rights movement .
6 The preliminary result for the state of Para was indecisive but the election there was thought to have been won by either Jader Barbalho of PMDB or Sahid Xerfan of the PTB .
7 The government believes that the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision .
8 What is missed by those who follow Nettl 's view , is that a number of Marxists would probably agree , in the sense that the idea of the state as merely an agent distorts the observed contradictions within the bourgeoisie , and assumes a purely passive role for the state in capitalism .
9 Even these more sophisticated attempts to elaborate where power lies and to allow for some freedom of manoeuvre for the state in capitalism can between , however .
10 You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence .
11 This may seem familiar — as indeed it should , because we have discussed the particle sea in a rather different context : as the state of existence before' the Big Bang .
12 Even though biological factors such as the state of hydration of the body will indicate that some food or fluid intake is required , the size and type of meal are likely to be determined also by habit and life-style .
13 This recognition is the first child of Rachel and a function of reason , known by the mystics as the state of discretion .
14 Similarly , broad factors such as the state of morale will again only be described by negative features such as absenteeism , stoppages , strikes , low quality output and so on .
15 Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is
16 In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ .
17 Without plunging into the moral and intellectual ‘ deep end ’ of the arguments about retribution , I suspect there is a relationship of cause and effect between the state of opinion and the incidence of crime , and further , that the state of opinion and the penalties of the law are interrelated — at least to this extent , that , other things being the same , milder penalties generally imply less reprobation .
18 We are now able to understand why our information about the states of motion is so restricted in quantum mechanics .
19 It may also be evaluated more specifically in terms of : how effectively and efficiently it produced evidence about the state of Art teaching in the school ; how reliable and valid that evidence was ; how validly that evidence was interpreted in arriving at the conclusions embodied in the final report ; and the extent to which the review process was an effective means of motivating those involved to act upon its conclusions .
20 If you look at the Booker Prize for literature or the film awards , they rarely tell you much about the state of literature or film production .
21 Although the regime is over a year old , routine monitoring , which is the main source of information about the state of auditing , only started in April 1992 .
22 Those are the facts about the state of manufacturing industry , and industrial disputes are at the lowest for half a century .
23 He was by now active in Actors Equity , a member of the council , and there was a running sore in the profession — about the state of theatre green rooms .
24 The purpose of this meeting was to seek information about the state of opinion in the party and advice as to the viability of Mrs Thatcher 's staying in the leadership contest .
25 Despite a plentiful supply of money and a stable frame work , there is much depression about the state of research in Germany , particularly in the universities .
26 W HEN Callaghan returned , tanned but tired , on January 11 from a Caribbean summit he was asked about the state of crisis and his tetchy reply was paraphrased in the tabloid headlines as ‘ Crisis — What Crisis ? ’
27 Leading in with a Simon Templar-style '60s intro , it rips into a raw guitar riff part nicked from old punk chestnut ‘ Jet Boy Jet Girl ’ , Jim Bob ranting eloquently about the state of pop and the industry 's gratuitous use of glamour girl sex to prop up videos by losers like Lionel Richie and Robert Palmer .
28 Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home .
29 I recently talked with Colin Thompson and John Drury about the state of religion in Britain today .
30 Budgets , on arrival from the White House , were dismantled and considered piecemeal with little attention to overall concerns about the state of economy , the need to balance expenditures against revenue or the national interest .
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