Example sentences of "state [prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 2 | On Jan. 14 , on the basis of assessments by diplomats based in Albania 's capital , Tirana , the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug retracted a report broadcast by the Yugoslav media three days earlier , which had claimed that a state of emergency had been declared in Shkodër and security stepped up around key installations throughout the country . |
| 3 | The new Council was established hours after a state of emergency had been declared and was described as the country 's " supreme military and political organ " [ see p. 36449 ] . |
| 4 | The first news of the coup was a statement signed by Yanayev , Pavlov and Baklanov and distributed bythe official news agency Tass on the morning of Aug. 19 , saying that , in keeping with the Constitution , presidential power had been transferred to Vice-President Gennady Yanayev " due to Mikhail Gorbachev 's inability to perform his duties for health reasons " , and that a state of emergency had been introduced in ( unspecified ) parts of the Soviet Union for six months to overcome " the profound crisis , political , ethnic and civil strife , chaos and anarchy that threaten the lives and security of the Soviet Union 's citizens " . |
| 5 | A state of emergency had been declared , followed by a general mobilization on Dec. 23 , in response to the massing of Georgian government troops near Tskhinvali , prompting fears of an imminent assault . |
| 6 | The state of emergency had been in force since 1987 and covered the 10 predominantly Kurdish provinces . |
| 7 | A state of emergency had been imposed in October-November of that year , however , amid ANC accusations of repression . ) |
| 8 | And since that state of stability had been calculated so that it would not commence deterioration until the next inspection had been completed , Rostov had delegated command of the bridge to Yuan , and had elected to watch the performance of his technical officers at close quarters . |
| 9 | Two generations before the Paris Academy was founded , a Protestant crusader for educational reform had already conceded that the state of learning had been ‘ much quickened and strengthened ’ by Jesuit schools . |