Example sentences of "the state [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections were also held to all 11 peninsular state assemblies ; the BN formed governments in all the states except Kelantan where the APU coalition won all 39 seats . |
| 2 | By mid-1991 the ALP remained deeply unpopular at federal level and in all the states except Queensland , where the party continued to benefit from reaction to the corruption of the former National Party government [ see above ] . |
| 3 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 4 | This is the president who has this wonderful rhetoric about states and federalism and , you know , the rights of states , but he was , he himself was not afraid to use the power of the federal government to try and lever the states into line and it worked , you know , we 're talking serious money here . |
| 5 | Since more than half the states at present existing are less than 40 years old , this seriously limits the incidence of the traditional ‘ principle of nationality ’ . |
| 6 | In early July the new cruzado was again devalued from $1.00=1.512 cruzados to $1.00=1.693 cruzados following protests against low prices due to the overvalued currency by soyabean farmers which had spread through the states of Mato Grosso and Paraná . |
| 7 | Soviet writers tended to stress rather that , although this was not specified in the ZOPFAN declaration , it was clear from its ‘ context ’ that ‘ the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality should be extended to all the states of Southeast Asia and not only to the members of ASEAN ’ . |
| 8 | The author noted that the zone should be extended to all the states of Southeast Asia and raised the question of its full demilitarisation . |
| 9 | On Nov. 29 the Air Force announced that it had selected six new bases for the mobile MX missile in the states of Arkansas , Louisiana , Michigan , North Dakota , Texas and Washington . |
| 10 | The Columbia Plateau , which covers 130 000 km 2 of the states of Washington and Oregon in the north-west USA , is composed of hundreds of separate basalt flows of Miocene age which in places reach a total thickness of 2000 m and have buried a pre-existing relief of more than 1500 m . |
| 11 | Six people were killed on July 20 in communal rioting sparked by the dispute in the states of Kerala and Maharashtra . |
| 12 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 13 | In particular three forms are prescribed , which to minimise translation problems are required to be printed either in all four official languages of the Organization of American States ( English , French , Portuguese and Spanish ) or at least in the languages of the states of origin and destination . |
| 14 | Lumumba appealed to the UN and then , failing a response , to the states of Africa . |
| 15 | In France , at the accession of Henry II in 1547 , each of the four secrétaires des finances was given the task of overseeing the administration of a group of French provinces and also of relations with the foreign states which bordered on these ; thus for example the secretary who supervised Burgundy and Champagne was normally also responsible for relations with the Swiss cantons and the states of west Germany . |
| 16 | Voting took place on Aug. 2 to elect governors , state legislators and mayors in the states of Durango , Veracruz , Oaxaca , Aguascalientes , Zacatecas and Baja California . |
| 17 | Continued agitation , some of it violent , by Jharkhand tribes for a separate Jharkhand homeland , covering the tribasl regions of the states of Bihar , Orissa , West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh , led to talks on May 31 , 1989 , between the Jharkhand Co-ordination Committee and the Bihar state government . |
| 18 | Or a back sweeping around the states of Holland with your boyfriend or girlfriend ? |
| 19 | The latter was in the hands of Motamid 's younger brother , who at once made an alliance with most of the states of Catalonia , including Barcelona , where El Cid had recently offered his services and been turned away . |
| 20 | Whilst the orgiastic dancers may have been stimulated by alcohol , it is likely that opium was used to heighten the states of meditation during long vigils and bouts of prayer , the curious seclusions which the ancients called ‘ incubation ’ . |
| 21 | At the bottom there 's America and America is divided up into states , the states of America , right ? |
| 22 | Hodgskin concluded that if Britain was better governed than the states of Germany this was principally because of the greater freedom of expression in Britain and because the political education of the working classes had progressed further in Britain than in Germany . |
| 23 | They have made no impression on the Yugoslavian tragedy — so much so that I wish we had developed our own foreign policy towards the future of Yugoslavia in general and to the states of Slovenia and Croatia in particular . |
| 24 | Every day the chemist makes use of such concepts as resonance electronegativity , hybridisation , zero point energies and classification of the states of molecules according to symmetry and angular momentum . |
| 25 | IBM Corp 's Technology Products unit — IBMspeak for the chip business — has finally nailed down some US distributors for the chips , subsystems and packaging products it wants to offer on the merchant market : the national distributors are Bell Industries Inc , Los Angeles , Bell Microproducts Inc , San Jose and Marshall Industries Inc , El Monte , California ; regional manufacturer 's representatives appointed include Bonser-Philhower Sales of Richardson , Texas , for Texas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and Arkansas ; S J Associates of Rockville Centre , New York for the Mid-Atlantic , Metro and Upstate New York regions , Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania ; Nexus of Mountain View , for Northern California ; Centaur Corp of Irvine for Southern California ; and Mill-Bern Associates of Woburn , Massachusetts for the states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Maine . |
| 26 | Floods in late December in the states of Minas Gerais , Bahia , Pará , Pernambuco and Goiás left 200,000 people homeless . |
| 27 | Weaving region : northern India , primarily the states of Punjab , Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh . |
| 28 | In mid-April 1987 , the Indian Government passed a death sentence on the Narmada River by granting the states of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat permission to build 3,000 major and minor dams . |
| 29 | In Australia , the states of South Australia and Victoria have redefined rape so that it covers the introduction of the penis of a person into the anus or mouth of another person as well as penile penetration of the vagina . |
| 30 | Certainly the slave trade was expanding in the early eighteenth century ; more slaves were being bought in Africa than before , and the wars among Africans to provide captives to sell had more of a disturbing effect on the states of West Africa . |