Example sentences of "the state [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 2 | Two years ago — again with help from the public and the team 's dedication in raising money — they were able to build a headquarters on a piece of land donated by the state government of Kedah . |
| 3 | The state government of New South Wales on Aug. 19 imposed new curbs on military assault rifles after one such weapon was used in the killing of eight people in a Sydney shopping centre on Aug. 17 . |
| 4 | An air of crisis hung over the closing stages of the 1993-94 budget process : the rejection of Bill Clinton 's stimulus package and a last-minute shortfall in grants from the state government in Albany left a $100m hole that suddenly forced fresh cuts on City Hall ( which , unlike the federal spendthrifts , must by law balance its budget ) . |
| 5 | They have links with the state government in Albany as well as City Hall , which adds hugely to their clout . |
| 6 | The right-wing Hindu-backed Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) formed the state government in Uttar Pradesh , and BJP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh had invited an all-party delegation to visit the site after coming under criticism from nearly all political parties for allegedly violating court orders regarding the disputed plot . |
| 7 | The state government in Sacramento was no better . |
| 8 | There was criticism of the way in which the crisis was handled by the state government in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania . |
| 9 | It is , in fact , one of the longest avenues in the US : a meandering boulevard that winds from Battery Park at the tip of Manhattan straight up to the state capital of Albany , some 150 miles away . |
| 10 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 11 | On March 25 the State Committee on Defence had been abolished , and State Counsellor on defence Gen. Konstantin Kobets released from his duties . |
| 12 | The post of Chair of the State Committee on Nationalities Policy , vacated by Valery Tishkov in October [ see p. 39155 ] , was given to Sergei Shakhrai , who was also made a Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Viktor Chernomyrdin , a former chair of the state gas industry , was made Deputy Premier responsible for energy ( replacing Vladimir Lopukhin ) ; Georgy Khizha ( former Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg ) became Deputy Premier in charge of industry ( replacing Aleksandr Titkin who was named in a privatization scandal involving state-sector industry ) ; and Anatoly Chubais , chair of the State Committee on Property ( in charge of privatization ) , became in addition a Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 14 | The resignation of Valery Tishkov , Chair of the State Committee for Nationalities Policy ( with ministerial rank ) , was reported on Oct. 19 . |
| 15 | In January 1990 the State Committee for Statistics announced that it was developing a more realistic type of retail price index , based on what consumers actually paid rather than on list prices . |
| 16 | Figures released by the State Committee for Statistics on Jan. 26 showed that in 1990 gross national product ( GNP ) had fallen by 2 per cent , produced national income by 4 per cent , and labour productivity by 3 per cent . |
| 17 | The State Committee for Statistics issued figures , quoted on Russian Television on March 18 , showing that only 7 per cent of the population received what was considered to be the minimum sufficient income . |
| 18 | Choidoryn Tümendelger became Chairman of the State Committee for Information , Radio Broadcasting and Television following the death of Lhagvagyn Zantav in May 1989 . |
| 19 | Ironically , we heard through the grapevine that the Soviet government had made its own translation of the OECD report for circulation within a narrow circle of officials in the State Committee for Science and Technology ! |
| 20 | Single-sex schooling is clearly an issue within the state sector of education . |
| 21 | Bukharin mocked Preobrazhensky for his attempt to define a ‘ pure law ’ for the working of the state economy in such a transition period , by abstracting from its relations with the private sector , i.e. by examining the state sector in isolation . |
| 22 | The state treaty on unification [ see p. 37661 ] was approved by both the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament ) and the Bundestag ( West German lower house of parliament ) on Sept. 20 . |
| 23 | This unification of Germany took place as provided for under Article 23 of the FRG Basic Law or constitution and in the state treaty on unification signed on Aug. 31 , 1990 [ see pp. 37661 ; 37832-33 ] . |
| 24 | Mr Major can draft a Queen 's Speech at his leisure , The State Opening of Parliament is not until May 6 . |
| 25 | Key items in the Queen 's Speech for the State Opening of Parliament on May 6 are expected to include : Ratification of the Maastricht treaty on closer European economic and political union and a single currency . |
| 26 | The experiment began with the State Opening of Parliament on 21 November 1989 , and continued right up till the House 's decision to approve permanent televising in July 1990 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the Sex Pistols ' re-enactment of their legendary 1977 boat trip on the Thames , coinciding with the state opening of Parliament on October 17 , will go ahead with or without Steve Jones . |
| 28 | They 're also a novelty within the country , I mean , the state opening of parliament for instance , it 's just weird ! |
| 29 | President F. W. de Klerk , in a radical speech at the state opening of Parliament on Feb. 2 , surprised supporters and critics alike by announcing not only the impending release of Nelson Mandela , the long-imprisoned leader of the country 's principal liberation movement , the African National Congress ( ANC ) , but also the unbanning of the ANC , the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC — the ANC 's smaller rival ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) . |
| 30 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |