Example sentences of "state [prep] [noun prp] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 2 | But at 11am , the Secretary of State for Scotland had congratulated RBS on the hundreds of Direct Line jobs being created in Glasgow . |
| 3 | In terms of a debate , he will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has called for debates in the Scottish Grand Committee and I hope that everyone will contribute to them . |
| 4 | The news that the Secretary of State for Scotland has asked for a feasibility study to investigate the need for a second Forth road bridge is unwelcome and merely confirms that the Scottish Office lacks a viable , long-term strategy for transport . |
| 5 | In a written answer this week , the Secretary of State for Scotland has confirmed that , in advance of the local inquiry , he and the Scottish Office have entered into a commercial contract with the designated builders of the project . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has suggested that those issues could be debated in the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 7 | On the precise matter that he raised regarding Scotland , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has set up working parties to advise on the need for early action on the Cairngorms , Loch Lomond and the Trossachs . |
| 8 | Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ? |
| 9 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 10 | The state of Florida has brought in an extra eight hundred officers to protect tourists following yesterday 's killing of a holidaymaker from Yorkshire . |
| 11 | The Youth Congress president , Maninder Singh Bitta , said that Sikh militants fighting for independence in the north Indian state of Punjab had tried to kill him 11 times previously . |
| 12 | The government of the Central American state of Honduras has pulled out of talks which would have led to the granting of a huge logging concession in the pine forests of the Mosquito coast . |
| 13 | ‘ To top it off , the state of California has slapped a £97,000 tax on the house . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform . |
| 15 | By the 1960s the State of Israel had become more secure . |
| 16 | That Palestinian Arabs did cultivate the land in the nineteenth century — as a glance at Roberts ' lithographs clearly proves — went unnoticed by Aumann , who concluded his thesis by stating that the contention that 95 per cent of the land of the state of Israel had belonged to Arabs ‘ has absolutely no foundation in fact . ’ |
| 17 | The state of Tennessee had passed a law forbidding the teaching of the theory of evolution on the ground that it " denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible " . |
| 18 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 19 | Native peoples from the US state of Alaska have formed a coalition aimed at persuading the scientific establishment to draw on their traditional methods of observing and understanding nature . |
| 20 | It was reported on Dec. 1 that the authorities in the state of Louisiana had decided to ask the Supreme Court to review the state 's stringent anti-abortion law . |