Example sentences of "state of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Even if the nature of these qualities of pleasure and pain are themselves unproblematic , it is said that what people want ( or want to avoid ) is not necessarily any kind of private experience , but just as often objective states of affairs in the public world , and it is thought no less reasonable to take account of wants of this sort than those for private experiences . |
| 2 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 3 | These different ‘ levels ’ of knowledge in turn involve different states of mind in the knower : conjecture , belief , understanding and pure reason . |
| 4 | Chicago was in a state of siege in the aftermath of the Haymarket trial . |
| 5 | When a conquest is made , the oneness of the individual is often superseded by a state of oneness in the partnership . |
| 6 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 7 | Moreover , as these demands have grown , so have the commercial pressures on companies to present their results and state of affairs in the best light , and this in turn has sometimes led to difficulties for auditors in standing up to directors who fix their remuneration and who , in practice , have the power to dismiss them . |
| 8 | To criticise language for being ‘ misleading ’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills , because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology . |
| 9 | Whatever the LWP 's future reliability , the weight of its contribution is bound to suffer if ‘ emergency ’ becomes a permanent state of affairs in the country . |
| 10 | The general consensus of opinion among sociologists is that , compared with the state of affairs in the nineteenth century , the modern marriage relationship is happier more egalitarian , more important , and therefore certainly more stressful . |
| 11 | In February 1949 MacArthur told Max W. Bishop , head of the division of North-East Asian Affairs , that the fluid state of affairs in the Far East rendered it impossible to achieve a peace treaty . |
| 12 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |
| 13 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 14 | After all , he voted with his Government for the privatisation Bill which caused the sorry state of affairs in the first place . |
| 15 | It is no good anyone complaining about the state of affairs in the world if they can not get their own town into some semblance of order . |
| 16 | In recognition of the tremendous effort that the London Area Supervisory team had put into achieving the best State of Service in the U.K. in 1990 and the best so far in 1991 , and as thanks for their contribution to the servicing of the local authority work over the summer , Paul Stearn Area Manager for Pest Control London organised a meeting with a difference . |
| 17 | These included a multiparty system , the resignation of the provincial LC leadership , equal rights for Kosovar Albanians , the release of political prisoners and an end to political trials , and the lifting of the state of emergency in the province ( imposed during the last serious disturbances in Kosovo in February-March 1989 — see pp. 36470 ; 36514-15 ) . |
| 18 | On March 15 the Commissioner of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and Controller of the State of Emergency in the country 's North Solomons Province , Paul Tohian , was dismissed by the government following an attempted coup the previous night . |
| 19 | On Aug. 8 the Senate approved an economic emergency bill which declared a state of emergency in the public sector for 180 days . |
| 20 | Amid continuing disturbances the government imposed a state of emergency in the region on July 20 . |
| 21 | The Moldavian Supreme Soviet declared a state of emergency in the Gagauz districts on Oct. 26 , suspending local government and banning public meetings . |
| 22 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 23 | The state of emergency in the city remained in force . |
| 24 | It also adopted four constitutional amendments , one of which specified that only the Macedonian Assembly could proclaim a state of emergency in the republic . |
| 25 | The Warsaw daily Sztandar Mlodych quoted Zalewski as saying that the President might introduce a state of emergency in the event of economic collapse . |
| 26 | Despite opposition reservations , the Assembly had then passed a motion on Dec. 10 extending the state of emergency in the country , due to expire that evening , to June 10 , 1992 . |
| 27 | On Jan. 2 , after meetings with representatives of all major opposition parties , Iosseliani and Kitovani declared that a military council had taken power , and announced a state of emergency in the Georgian capital . |
| 28 | Despite the declaration on March 9 of a state of emergency in the region and the imposition of a dusk-to-dawn curfew , by March 20 the official death toll was 152 . |
| 29 | A state of emergency in the Dnestr Republic had been extended for a further two months . |
| 30 | On Aug. 13 , the Nagorny Karabakh Supreme Soviet , prompted by " aggression on the part of Azerbaijan and the occupation of a considerable part of [ Nagorny Karabakh ] territory " , introduced a six-month state of emergency in the enclave , and ordered a general mobilization . |