Example sentences of "[prep] state [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A draft protocol on environmental protection for Antarctica was discussed during a meeting in Chile of states party to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty . |
| 2 | A Franco-Australian proposal [ see p. 37878 ] to ban mineral exploitation and designate the continent a " world park " , met with resistance from Japan , the United Kingdom and the USA at a meeting in Viva del Mar , Chile , in December of states party to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 3 | It would send proposals from its biannual meetings to the Supreme Soviets of states party to the agreement and to the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) Councils of Heads of State and of Heads of Government . |
| 4 | The 10th heads of states conference of the Permanent Inter-state Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel ( CILSS ) was held on April 10-11 in Ouagadougou , Burkina . |
| 5 | Many argue that there is a major trend away from family-centred care towards state provision throughout the western world , and even in the more traditional oriental societies of Japan and China , and that state provision further enables families to opt out of their former caring functions . |
| 6 | The withdrawal of state protection for the marginal workforce makes adherence to that principle problematic . |
| 7 | Earlier , following requests made by both the government and ANC [ see p. 38705 ] , the commission began to investigate allegations of state complicity in the township violence . |
| 8 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |
| 9 | They see the output of state policies in the USA as the result of interagency negotiation , rather than central or local direction . |
| 10 | The evolution of state education during the nineteenth century provides a good example of a series of ad hoc responses . |
| 11 | With the massive expansion of state education in the aftermath of the Second World War , teachers , freed from the constraints of imparting the Catholic texts , tended to propagate the Church 's rival ideology . |
| 12 | The rise in the importance of state benefits in the financial status of elderly people over the course of this century is something noted by virtually all commentators , though it should be remembered that many elderly people relied on Poor Law support before the payment of state old-age pensions in 1909 . |
| 13 | The decision , which many commentators suggested could transform the racial complexion of state courts throughout the country , was welcomed by the Bush administration . |
| 14 | Is the reason that the Secretary of State objects to the leak that the document tells the truth about those hospitals and exposes his cover-up ? |
| 15 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 16 | Will the Secretary of State name to the House any allegedly independent gas-fired generating projects which do not involve investment from regional electricity companies ? |
| 17 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
| 18 | This Company was not only the largest of the four groups , it was actually the largest railway system with the exception of state systems in the whole world , with a route mileage of 7,790 , ( excluding Irish Lines ) . |
| 19 | He mentioned the Home Office-led investigation of state funding of the voluntary sector ; the Department of Education 's investigation of educational support grants , about £650m worth , given to local education authorities for tasks deemed especially important ; and the Department of Social Security 's review of the shortfall of contributions to contributory benefits , amounting to nearly £500m a year . |
| 20 | The book , which is fierce , elegant and utterly unsparing is bound to enrage anyone who takes for granted the necessity of State funding for the arts . |
| 21 | Significant budget measures included a 26 per cent increase in foreign exchange made available at auction , a measure expected to stabilize the naira ; the end of state funding for the two political parties ( the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention ) ; and a doubling of the minimum wage ( from the level of N125 per month set in 1981 ) for public-sector employees . |
| 22 | Indeed , it may be argued that the current wave of ethnic or mini-ethnic agitations is a response to the overwhelmingly non-national and non-nationalist principles of state formation in the greater part of the 20th-century world . |
| 23 | Will the Secretary of State call on the Roman Catholic Church — many of whose members have suffered at the hands of the IRA — to excommunicate those members of the IRA whose hands are dripping with the blood of innocent victims ? |
| 24 | The history of the inter-war pub stems from the beginning of state interference under the Central Control Board ( Liquor Traffic ) set up in 1915 . |
| 25 | The ill-effects of state interference in the economy take several forms . |
| 26 | The constitutional and organizational arrangements filter the interests of state personnel towards the long-run interests of the capitalists . |
| 27 | He used the columns of the Irish Times to inform Roman catholic consciences of permitted interpretations of state divorce on the grounds of religious liberty , interpretations which were diametrically opposed to that of the Irish bishops . |
| 28 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 29 | As a result there are areas of ambiguity in determining the value of state support for the railways . |
| 30 | Again it seems that the radical critique has confused form and content , and so has directed valuable criticisms about the level of state support towards the form of state support itself . |