Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 2 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 3 | During the hearing Michael Grade , chief executive of Channel Four , said that his company had " been placed in the invidious position of having to choose between breaking the law and putting individual lives in danger " . |
| 4 | CVC Trigrams ( 32 card set ) : The stimuli are presented in the same position on the cards , but are consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams , again 16 on the left and 16 on the right . |
| 5 | If the reason is not self-evident , it soon emerges when we imagine an appropriate part of to be placed in the verbal position . |
| 6 | They should always be placed in the same positions each time ; you should be able to put your hand on any of them at a moment 's notice : no scrabbling around ! |
| 7 | He can only be placed in the lying position for effective treatment purposes when he can balance well enough to be taken through this pattern of movements without increasing his spasticity . |
| 8 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ This point is usually proved by asking the person suspected of parking or causing the vehicle to be parked in the offending position ‘ Are you responsible for this vehicle being left in this position ? ’ |
| 9 | And by altering a few easy to undo buckles , baby can be carried in the cradling position and you can breast feed in privacy . |
| 10 | Starting at the top , carefully remove the stones or bricks , and stack them so that they can be replaced in the correct position |
| 11 | If rate switches are in use , they should be set in the low position on the cyclic controls , since difficulties are usually pilot-induced ( unintentionally ) and it helps to make the model as docile as possible . |
| 12 | As we have now seen , the latter supposition is by no means invariably true , and for this ( and other reasons which we shall come to later ) the ranges of adjectives that can be found in the two positions are actually substantially different . |
| 13 | No child should be put in the powerful position of having to tell tales on another child . |
| 14 | Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction . |
| 15 | These would include its use in emergency airway management in the field and in cervical spine injury as the neck may be maintained in the neutral position during insertion and laryngoscopy is not needed . |
| 16 | They had , however , been fixed in the wrong position , officials said , and it was this that caused one of the pipes to rupture through metal fatigue . |
| 17 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 18 | The Ford Island scenes were mainly those of destruction of the PBYs , which were placed in the exact position of the those PBYs lost in the actual attack . |
| 19 | All the patients were treated in the prone position , with the shock waves entering from the ventral side . |
| 20 | More powerful bulbs were put in the other positions . |
| 21 | They may be few and far between , but they cause worry to elderly people who fear that the gap may lead to them being put in the same position . |
| 22 | Was there any sense that er you were in fact being put in the same position as your parents had been your your grandparents , had been in in in the sense not being able to get above a certain level by having your wages your bonus cut ? |
| 23 | After this , temporary lifting and turning journals were fitted in the draw-gear position and the frame was lifted , and turned over to accept the wheels . |
| 24 | The subjects were studied in the semirecumbent position and were not allowed to eat during the study . |
| 25 | The provisions of s 3 of the UCTA apply equally in these circumstances , and the protected party is placed in the same position as a consumer , even if he is acting as a businessman . |
| 26 | The picture will only appear if it 's placed in the correct position . |
| 27 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 28 | The track is used in the front position for sailing into wind , as nearly all the length of the board is in the water and this provides greatest sideways resistance . |
| 29 | This is called in the READY position . |
| 30 | The motor is mounted in the upright position , at right angles to the blade . |