Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] position as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process and this work represent my own attempts to acknowledge my position as a feminist artist and seriously to consider my responsibility and accountability as such . |
| 2 | Tattersalls will consider its position as soon as the Chancellor 's decision is definite . |
| 3 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 4 | Those of use who have worked so hard to ensure that the UK retained its position as one of the world 's leaders in fast reactor technology must register disappointment following the Government 's decision to cease funding our participation in the European Fast Reactor R&D programme . |
| 5 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 6 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 7 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 8 | Only the Foreign Ministry , still occupied by Serrano Suñer , retained its position as a pro-Falangist stronghold , for the continued dominance of the Axis in the European war advised maintaining a pro-Axis stance in external affairs . |
| 9 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 10 | In the 20 years between 1919 and 1939 British town planning , while still resting firmly on public-sector housing-led initiatives undertaken before 1914 , proceeded both to consolidate its position as a tool of government and to widen its disciplinary and professional scope . |
| 11 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 12 | Tranmere Rovers .... 3 Leyton Orient ...... 0 TRANMERE ROVERS , who in recent years have survived a threat of extinction as well as only just preserving League membership , reinforced their position as Third Division leaders by overcoming Leyton Orient , thereby stretching the margin to four points . |
| 13 | Although the renewal appeared to secure her position as tutor-organiser into the mid-thirties , Miss Green 's personal relationships with the District and Pateman became formal rather than enthusiastic after 1931 , but her commitment to her students continued undiminished . |
| 14 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |
| 15 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 16 | In 1164 , Rainald was deprived of the chancellery , but retained his position as Arch-chancellor for Italy . |
| 17 | Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo retained his position as the Front 's secretary in charge of political affairs , while Capt. Gilbert Diendere was reappointed secretary in charge of defence and security . |
| 18 | While Kim retained his position as DLP executive chairman ( a position which he elevated above his co-chairman Kim Jong Pil and Park Tae Jun ) , Park Chul Un was removed from the Cabinet ( although he was reappointed to the Cabinet in December as Minister for Sports and Youth ) . |
| 19 | Responsibility for Housing and Works was taken on by Adriaan Vlok , who retained his position as Minister of Correctional Services but relinquished the Ministry for the Budget to Org Marais . |
| 20 | Since the mid-1980s he has produced some thirteen books of aerial photography , consolidating his position as the world 's leading exponent of such work . |
| 21 | The representational theory of mind treats the explanation of mental life as a kind of engineering problem ; it starts from the inside , from the representational state , and asks how mental states interact with one another to produce something that we would call ‘ knowledge ’ ; the representational theorist proceeds like a sceptical philosopher who thinks that what figures in our mental life is not reality but our mental representations of it ( recall my saying the Fodor described his position as ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ) . |
| 22 | The result on March 14 could well hinge on the boots of Stabler and his Newcastle rival David Johnson , whose 28 points on Saturday maintained his position as the country 's leading points scorer . |
| 23 | Lee 's new political role was said to compromise his position as senior member in liaising between Legco and the government . |
| 24 | According to the findings of investigators of the Mexican General Civil Aeronautics Administration , the pilot last reported his position as 35 DME miles from the ACA VOR at 14,000 ft . |
| 25 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 26 | John Ellis , basically a trader like Peter Collinson , found his position as Agent for West Florida and Dominica helpful in furthering his interest in botany . |
| 27 | Mr Stokoe , who was at Hillsborough to witness one of the finest hours in the declining club 's recent history , used his position as a television analyst to canvas on behalf of Mr Crosby 's permanent promotion to the manager 's chair . |
| 28 | He used his position as a doctor to gain their trust and then committed hideous crimes against them . |
| 29 | He was a member of the embassies to France in 1325–6 , 1331 and 1336 and he used his position as envoy and representative of Edward III to further his book-collecting activities . |
| 30 | Sometimes the choice of non-English knights , without lands in England , might be troublesome — the Savoyard Jean de Grilly , for example , used his position as lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine to build up a considerable territorial holding in the Bordelais . |