Example sentences of "state [prep] [noun prp] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 2 | But at 11am , the Secretary of State for Scotland had congratulated RBS on the hundreds of Direct Line jobs being created in Glasgow . |
| 3 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 4 | The Youth Congress president , Maninder Singh Bitta , said that Sikh militants fighting for independence in the north Indian state of Punjab had tried to kill him 11 times previously . |
| 5 | By the 1960s the State of Israel had become more secure . |
| 6 | That Palestinian Arabs did cultivate the land in the nineteenth century — as a glance at Roberts ' lithographs clearly proves — went unnoticed by Aumann , who concluded his thesis by stating that the contention that 95 per cent of the land of the state of Israel had belonged to Arabs ‘ has absolutely no foundation in fact . ’ |
| 7 | The state of Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution on the ground that it " denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible " . |
| 8 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 9 | It was reported on Dec. 1 that the authorities in the state of Louisiana had decided to ask the Supreme Court to review the state 's stringent anti-abortion law . |