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

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1 Even where State protection of individuals is supposedly guaranteed by treaty , the prime motivation has been the furtherance of international order through the preservation of international peace and security rather than a direct intention to provide international legal protection for individuals .
2 Ironically , the international political changes that shifted the focus to private practice were also inimical to regulation and state funding of health care .
3 Under the forceful guidance of Rebecca Cheetham and Edith Kerrison , both guildswomen , the society sought to strengthen links with the Public Health Committee as part of a longer-term aim to secure local authority and state responsibility for maternity services ( for the context see Rowan 1985 ) .
4 Dr Gysi , who has worked as a lawyer since 1971 , and is divorced with two children , is the son of Dr Klaus Gysi , a former East German minister of culture , ambassador to Rome , and state secretary for church affairs .
5 This was the legacy on the one hand , of state control of print media — books , pamphlets , journals , etc. — via the licensing of printers and publishers , censorship and other means ( 1631–1789 ) , and state control of telecommunications ( telegraphy ) and sound broadcasting ( laws of 1837 , 1851 and 1923 ; ordinance of March 1945 , etc . ) .
6 Mazowiecki 's government had earlier vowed to end monopolistic practices and state subsidies for parties .
7 The meeting also withdrew the vote of thanks given to Mr Zhivkov when he was forced to resign as Communist Party and state leader on November 10 .
8 Federal and state governments in Australia have embarked on a series of national initiatives which show a firm commitment to tackling social inequalities in health .
9 All in all , state ownership and state intervention with prices has come out with a generally , but not totally , bad record .
10 Mr Heath 's U-turn in 1972 , shifting from free-market policies to a statutory prices and incomes policy and state intervention in industry , is a negative example for her .
11 nationalization and state planning of coal production , rail transport and other industries
12 Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property .
13 Since state provision of retirement pensions is included on the expenditure side under transfer payments , the pension contributions under the National Insurance Scheme must be included on the revenue side .
14 In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions .
15 The law was welcomed by leading Soviet journalists , but it was widely assessed that true press freedom would only be achieved when state control of paper production and of distribution and ownership of print works was ended .
16 This is a view shared by the Educational Publishers ' Council which claims that independent schools spend twice as much as state schools on books and equipment per pupil .
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