Example sentences of "[verb] the same position " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe . |
| 2 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 3 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 4 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 5 | This contrast is used to explain why the Japanese are said to feel less class conscious than Westerners because vertical loyalties within companies , say , are more important than horizontal relations with other people who occupy the same position but who work for different companies . |
| 6 | The Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , has adopted the same position as his predecessors , Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr John Major , insisting that the deportations are an essential deterrent against a fresh influx of Vietnamese next year . |
| 7 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |
| 8 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 9 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 10 | Commentary or criticism of such art within the country concerned necessarily takes the same position . |
| 11 | ‘ And they get told their riding positions , ’ says Haig who , as Station Officer , is the only one who takes the same position on the fire engine each time it goes out . |
| 12 | The minister , whose evidence led to the collapse of the Matrix Churchill court case this week , took the same position in writing . |
| 13 | Their holders would adopt the same position of relative irrelevance that they hold in the republican democracies of Europe . |
| 14 | That 's why you can have two people who are going to occupy the same position and you 'll treat them quite differently , because of the different characters . |
| 15 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 16 | Blake Morrison will be literary editor ; he also leaves the Observer , where he held the same position . |
| 17 | Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide 's new chairman and chief executive is Charlotte Beers , who previously held the same position at US agency Tatham/RSCG . |