Example sentences of "of state [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zollverein is historically unique because previous unions of states had been military , not economic . |
| 2 | My understanding of what what the panel said and what the what the Secretary of State agreed was that neither the panel nor the Secretary of State disagreed with the erm the general sense of the policy but felt that that sense was er embodied and and was able to be applied through the erm provisions of other policies in the plan at that time . |
| 3 | In addition , the Secretary of State could override or veto any decision of the Scottish Assembly if it affected a matter reserved to the Westminster Parliament in a way which the Secretary of State felt was contrary to the public interest . |
| 4 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 5 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 6 | Soglo emerged victorious in the second round of voting on March 24 , the first time in mainland Africa that a head of state had been removed from power through the ballot box . |