Example sentences of "this state of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
| 2 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 3 | As a nation , however , we acquiesced in this state of things . |
| 4 | This state of gens promiscuity is , however , imaginary and so the reasoning is irrelevant . |
| 5 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 6 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 7 | This state of affairs is not , I think , an aberration , but is inevitable in the structures of higher education . |
| 8 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 9 | Perhaps no one would deny this ; but as each generation of students arrives more defiantly or hopelessly monoglot , as a whole new discipline ( called ‘ Comparative Literature ’ ) has come into being to cater for those exceptional persons who can read more languages than one , the need for a classroom manual to redress this state of affairs becomes ever more urgent . |
| 10 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 11 | However , in order to show the ‘ historical ’ nature of this state of affairs they had to stress the existence of previous stages when private property was absent . |
| 12 | Given this state of affairs , everyone should , in theory , be able to relax with a tranquil mind , secured by the logical impossibility of anyone winning a nuclear war . |
| 13 | Having flouted the people 's wishes , they even have the cheek to call this state of affairs ‘ democratic ’ . |
| 14 | It is this state of affairs which Labour and the Liberal Democrats would have continue . |
| 15 | Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important , this state of affairs has not come to the fore . |
| 16 | It would have taken something of a miracle to attract the capital investment which might have begun to change this state of affairs . |
| 17 | The general opinion was that the court was ‘ vulgar and in bad taste ’ , but interestingly enough it was not the King who was held responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 18 | It was ridiculous to blame the Court , and by implication the sovereigns themselves , for this state of affairs , but the opponents of the regime were not selective in their targets . |
| 19 | This state of affairs is inherited , consuming an awful lot of the nation 's gross domestic product , with no manufacturing output . |
| 20 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 21 | He liked Donald a great deal ; and the prospect of the man 's imminent death did nothing to dispel this feeling , since he was the person directly responsible for this state of affairs . |
| 22 | This state of affairs is an example of discrimination against the needs of older people ; it not only causes great suffering but unnecessary economic costs . |
| 23 | There is no virtue in several injections of insulin if the patient is well controlled on a single injection each day , but this state of affairs is unlikely to be the case in a patient who has had diabetes for a number of years and has little residual β-cell function . |
| 24 | This state of affairs has resulted in long periods of civil war beginning soon after independence . |
| 25 | Schools and colleges are businesses , and the Education Reform Act has confirmed this state of affairs , not created it . |
| 26 | This was the prerogerative reg=prerogative of the Met Officer and I for one was quite happy with this state of affairs . |
| 27 | Technology and Innovation is therefore to be welcomed as a first step towards changing this state of affairs . |
| 28 | In an effort to improve on this state of affairs , some museums have tried to regale the visitor with assorted snippets of information in ordinary English . |
| 29 | It is important to realize that this state of affairs is only temporary and that sex may become even more exciting and rewarding once the menopause has passed . |
| 30 | The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal . |