Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 2 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to advise that you have been selected for interview . |
| 3 | I refer to my letter of 13th August 1993 inviting you to an interview for the above position to which you were unable to attend . |
| 4 | I refer to your recent application and interview for the above position and regret to inform you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 5 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to inform you that you have been selected for interview . |
| 6 | Would the Secretary of State consider short-termism among investors as a suitable excuse for the rocky position of sterling on the foreign exchange markets ? |
| 7 | A number of American cases ruled that reassignment need not be made where the disabled employee had insufficient seniority under local union agreements or where collective bargaining had established job-related standards for the reassigned position which the disabled employee could not meet . |
| 8 | It may be confused by parts of the shell , for the mean position 17h06min05.27s , -44°25'20.2 is displaced 5.51.1 at PA 160° from the pulsar timing position . |
| 9 | There could be no explanation for his victory other than that there was considerable support in Unionist circles for the traditionalist positions represented by Paisley and Beattie . |
| 10 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 11 | The statement that ‘ the parties that contended in turn for domination regarded the possession of this huge state edifice as the principal spoils of the victor ’ is nowhere more true than in the immediate pre- and post-colonial competition among indigenous interests for the administrative positions hitherto reserved for the imperialists . |
| 12 | The convention also chose Don Johnston , likewise an opponent of the Accord , for the administrative position of party president . |
| 13 | You could say this for the new position : it took us back a way from the medical cut and thrust . |
| 14 | Vorontsov was an unlikely choice for the new position . |
| 15 | Strong support for the Iranian position came from Algeria , Indonesia , Libya and Venezuela . |
| 16 | The students in this respect were merely showing support for the official position and expressing their patriotism , but they went too far in their protest action . |
| 17 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 18 | At BASW 's recent AGM , its chairman Graham Thompson said it would be scandalously wasteful for the legal position to be clarified through judicial review . |
| 19 | ‘ As for the legal position , ’ he continued , ‘ I gather that Yorick died intestate . |
| 20 | Town is on everyone 's lips today , and for the proud position which it occupies in public esteem it has very largely Mr Chapman to thank . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 22 | In some parts of African game reserves , such as the Masai Mara , it is not unusual to come across dozens of tourist trucks jostling for the best position to view game . |
| 23 | For a moment she lost her mother in the crowd of horses and riders and foot followers , as people jostled for the best position , or to ride alongside their fancy . |
| 24 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 25 | He continued walking , past a queue of people filing aboard a sight-seeing bus , jostling for the best positions as they reached the open upper deck . |
| 26 | l9 Moreover , the kairos approach can not speak to the fact of an all-male priesthood ( which God is supposed to have given to His church and to have been adequate in past ages ) precisely having been one of the factors making for the secondary position of women in society . |
| 27 | But in world judo at present , there is a group of young fighters all jockeying for the top positions — and in the first day of the World Championships here yesterday , they began to sort themselves out . |
| 28 | Lawrence spent his final days in the company of Mabel Dodge Luhan — the heiress whose home in Greenwich Village had been the spawning ground of some of America 's most famous pre-World War I radical and literary figures — and , thus , provided an oddly suitable setting for the desolate position in which Hopper found himself . |
| 29 | They played a leading part in the organization of the war after 1369 ; they both had considerable experience of Breton affairs , and their influence at court may be one reason for the important position occupied by Brittany in English strategy from 1372 to 1375 . |
| 30 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |