Example sentences of "state [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |
| 2 | However , in the state the structure of administration is never entirely bureaucratic . |
| 3 | Although most existing powers and responsibilities over the delivery of health services and the production of utilities , such as electricity and gas , were effectively removed by post-war nationalization , within the welfare state the role of councils was substantially increased , building on responsibilities some of them had already claimed in the inter-war period . |
| 4 | In the amorphous state the distribution of polymer chains in the matrix is completely random , with none of the strictures imposed by the ordering encountered in the crystallites of partially crystalline polymers . |
| 5 | For general theories of power and the state the book by Cox , Furlong and Page ( 1985 ) is very useful . |
| 6 | Keen to give the new government of his state a chance to work , he has politely rebuffed Mr Annuar . |
| 7 | Article 15 , in particular allows a state party to the Convention to take measures derogating from some of its obligations under the Convention ‘ In time of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation ’ to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation , whilst many of the individual articles establishing particular rights allow to a state a measure of liberty of action in order to secure the public interest . |
| 8 | I say publicly that they are mistaken in trying to push this Bill through in the face of severe and fierce opposition , not just from committed Labour supporters but from rank-and-file Conservatives and from people who have no particular political We were lucky enough to see my hon. Friend the Minister of State a couple of times , and we tried to explain to him how we in Leicestershire would lose out . |
| 9 | For reasons of national security a law of 1837 and a decree-law of 1851 conferred on the state a monopoly of transmissions by telegraph , and the policing of the airwaves . |