Example sentences of "[noun sg] of state [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 2 | In what was interpreted by the CIA and the Department of State as a post-missile crisis concession , the Soviet Union agreed to turn over control of all weapons systems within Cuba ( including surface-to-air installations which could be used to shoot down US overflights ) . |
| 3 | He ran a Department of State with the detailed application which he had devoted to making his way in Glasgow business . |
| 4 | For all their grandeur , the chancellors in Germany , France and England in this period were still essentially officials of the household : even in England the royal chancery did not become a quasi-independent department of state until the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 5 | In this case Friedman , Ipser , and Parker ( 1984 ) , using the stiffest plausible equation of state for a star , obtain a maximum stable mass of 3.5 . |
| 6 | Sometimes a change of state of the substrate results in formation of soil . |
| 7 | We may now eliminate the kinetic energy from our energy equation giving , per unit of time , Under an adiabatic change of state of the body from which we deduce that is an exact differential and there exists a function W , the strain energy function , such that and , in this case , W = U. |
| 8 | Thus wiping and licking do not seem to require a change of state as a matter of their essential meaning , but it is quite accepted that one may be involved , so that we can have : ( 34 ) Rover licked his plate clean Wendy wiped the floor dry |
| 9 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |
| 10 | Such operations have the advantage of removing the pollutants entirely from the waste stream ie the compounds do not merely undergo a change of state within the environment — and can exhibit beneficial interactions with microorganisms ( eg the so-called powdered activated carbon ( PACT ) process , in which powdered carbon is added to activated sludge and ‘ biological activated carbon ’ , in which microorganisms extend the life of carbon filters before regeneration is required ) . |
| 11 | The point of his advice is not just to authorise " medeled liyf " which the lord is anyhow pursuing : He can cut from one kind of state to the other with joy ; this is for him precisely how love is to be ordained . |
| 12 | This meant that the subject was developing in a specific type of state with a specific view of the main features of international society . |
| 13 | On 2 February 1654 the council of state of the Protectorate recommended that Mackworth be added to its number . |
| 14 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |
| 15 | The slim Sceptre with its elaborate finial and the magnificent Sword of State were created in Renaissance Italy and gifted by two Popes to King James IV — the Sceptre probably by the Borgia Pope Alexander VI in 1494 , and the Sword of State by the ‘ Warrior Pope ’ Julius II in 1507 . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union , with Cuban assistance , experimented with the idea of a left-leaning confederation of states in the Horn of Africa in spring 1977 . |
| 17 | The importance of this image in the history of western political thought has long been recognized ; indeed it has been hailed as the rebirth of the concept of state in the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | Linked to this persistent emphasis on the head of state as a quasi-mystical individual has been a countervailing disregard for the opinions and practices of village communities , except as the means of export revenue and , where tribal links justify it , as a source of political support . |
| 19 | AN AUSTRALIAN state has proposed the country adopt a bill of rights and replace the Queen as head of state with an Australian president . |
| 20 | ‘ Look at the hair on this one , ’ says Clint , inspecting the frizzy head of state on a Finnish note . |
| 21 | Constitutionally , the prime minister may assume the functions of head of state for a fortnight . |
| 22 | The fourth congress of the PCT on July 30 , 1989 , re-elected him as central committee chairman and thus as head of state for a further five years . |
| 23 | As the incumbent President of the NSC Evren continued as head of state for an " interim " seven-year term . |
| 24 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 25 | He it was who ushered in the new head of state to the dais in Prague Castle where the oath was sworn . |
| 26 | On Oct. 23-24 he visited the Netherlands , the EC 's strongest opponent of apartheid ; this was the first visit by a South African head of state to the Netherlands since 1948 . |
| 27 | Col. Idriss Déby , head of state since the overthrow in December 1990 of Hissène Habré , on March 4 announced that he had appointed Jean Alingue Bawoyeu as Prime Minister . |
| 28 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 29 | Sam Nujoma , President of Namibia , which became a Commonwealth member at independence in March 1990 , said that he hoped that Mandela would attend the next CHOGM , in 1993 , " as head of state of a non-racial , democratic South Africa " . |
| 30 | East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany . |