Example sentences of "[noun sg] of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 2 | He ran a Department of State with the detailed application which he had devoted to making his way in Glasgow business . |
| 3 | For all their grandeur , the chancellors in Germany , France and England in this period were still essentially officials of the household : even in England the royal chancery did not become a quasi-independent department of state until the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 4 | Sometimes a change of state of the substrate results in formation of soil . |
| 5 | We may now eliminate the kinetic energy from our energy equation giving , per unit of time , Under an adiabatic change of state of the body from which we deduce that is an exact differential and there exists a function W , the strain energy function , such that and , in this case , W = U. |
| 6 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |
| 7 | Such operations have the advantage of removing the pollutants entirely from the waste stream ie the compounds do not merely undergo a change of state within the environment — and can exhibit beneficial interactions with microorganisms ( eg the so-called powdered activated carbon ( PACT ) process , in which powdered carbon is added to activated sludge and ‘ biological activated carbon ’ , in which microorganisms extend the life of carbon filters before regeneration is required ) . |
| 8 | The point of his advice is not just to authorise " medeled liyf " which the lord is anyhow pursuing : He can cut from one kind of state to the other with joy ; this is for him precisely how love is to be ordained . |
| 9 | On 2 February 1654 the council of state of the Protectorate recommended that Mackworth be added to its number . |
| 10 | The slim Sceptre with its elaborate finial and the magnificent Sword of State were created in Renaissance Italy and gifted by two Popes to King James IV — the Sceptre probably by the Borgia Pope Alexander VI in 1494 , and the Sword of State by the ‘ Warrior Pope ’ Julius II in 1507 . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union , with Cuban assistance , experimented with the idea of a left-leaning confederation of states in the Horn of Africa in spring 1977 . |
| 12 | The importance of this image in the history of western political thought has long been recognized ; indeed it has been hailed as the rebirth of the concept of state in the Middle Ages . |
| 13 | He it was who ushered in the new head of state to the dais in Prague Castle where the oath was sworn . |
| 14 | On Oct. 23-24 he visited the Netherlands , the EC 's strongest opponent of apartheid ; this was the first visit by a South African head of state to the Netherlands since 1948 . |
| 15 | Col. Idriss Déby , head of state since the overthrow in December 1990 of Hissène Habré , on March 4 announced that he had appointed Jean Alingue Bawoyeu as Prime Minister . |
| 16 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 17 | East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany . |
| 18 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand , the first head of state of the wartime Allies to visit East Germany , said yesterday that the existence of two sovereign German states could not be ‘ abolished at a stroke ’ . |
| 19 | Different considerations would arise if it did , since it would be contrary to public policy for the court not to recognise as a qualified representative of the head of state of the foreign state the diplomatic representative recognised by Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 20 | The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the British sovereign , represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir Henry Taylor in an acting capacity ) . |
| 21 | The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the British sovereign represented by a Governor General ( currently Sir George Lepping ) . |
| 22 | The head of state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1973 , is the United Kingdom sovereign , represented by a Governor-General . |
| 23 | The head of state of the Solomon Islands , an independent member of the Commonwealth since July 1978 , is the United Kingdom sovereign represented by a Governor-General . |
| 24 | Mujjaddedi , who had travelled overland from Peshawar along with 20 other IJC members , was formally appointed as head of state of the new Islamic State of Afghanistan . |
| 25 | Kerekou was to remain head of state during the transitional period , but with the defence portfolio removed from his responsibilities . |
| 26 | On Oct. 26 the national conference elected Amadou Cheffou as Prime Minister for a 15-month transitional period ( Nov. 1 , 1991-Jan. 31 , 1993 ) ; on Oct. 11 the conference had confirmed that President Ali Saibou would remain head of state during the transition . |
| 27 | On Aug. 5 Gen. Amadou Toumani Touré , head of state during the period of transition to democracy from March 1991 to June 1992 , was granted personal immunity from prosecution in recognition of " his role in the restoration of the Third Republic " . |
| 28 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 29 | AUSTRALIA will replace the Queen as head of state by the end of the century , premier Paul Keating forecast yesterday . |
| 30 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |