Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] position [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I wo n't take up long , much of your time , I just did n't want anyone to think that I had er given up in my old position not to be a no doubt , I believe other measures could have been taken . |
| 2 | Searchlights combed the skies as I switched London over to the new system and said , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , this is the second biggest turn-on I 've had all week — the first was undoubtedly my precarious position up here with Mr Aspel . ’ |
| 3 | But if space and time are merely " forms of our intuition " , then the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity presents no difficulty , for in that case any two things can be numerically distinguished in virtue of their spatial position alone . |
| 4 | Yet their cultural position both for contemporaries and subsequent historians was complex and again is directly relevant to any understanding of the movies . |
| 5 | Their social position also appeared to suffer a decline as education entered a period of crisis . |
| 6 | The West Indians were alert to any erosion of their parliamentary position even at a time when the principle of maintaining slavery was virtually lost . |
| 7 | Rather than a follow-up to Nevermind , it is a prequel which shows how the band got to their current position where rock critics and industry moguls divide music into two categories : pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana . |
| 8 | Well aware that before their present position both she and the Emperor would have been officially designated by the sclerotic European courts as ‘ other persons who might be invited ’ , Eugénie had no hesitation in squashing what she considered to be behaviour unsuitable for the Court of Napoleon III , where ‘ other persons ’ were to be received with dignity and no hint of condescension . |
| 9 | About 100 million years ago there was a big break-up of the land masses , and the continents have been slowly moving towards their present positions ever since ( they will , of course , continue to move in the future ) . |
| 10 | Many cases could be settled far quicker , and probably far cheaper , if an early Williamson Tender had forced the defenders to consider their respective positions rather earlier in a case . |
| 11 | More generally in relation to external dealings , the advantages which the City of London possesses as a major international financial centre were listed by the Wilson Committee : its historical role as centre of the pax Britannica economica ; its geographical position close to Europe and between America and Asia ; the overlap of its working day with those of both Europe and Asia ; political stability ; a high degree of integrity ; a flexible regulatory system ; a concentration of ancillary and cognate services ; and the universality of the English language . |
| 12 | If their terminal positions still retain too much emphasis , then the line can be continued beyond them . |
| 13 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 14 | He may not have won a championship , but he had taken Leeds from bottom of the table to fourth , their highest position ever , in a much stiffer competition than the Southern League . |
| 15 | try to redefine the way that the opposition sees its own position so as to enable it to shift away from that position to your benefit |
| 16 | Why not display it in its new position permanently , balancing it with the Northern Ireland banner on the other side of the dome ? |
| 17 | Copying , moving and inserting numbers is a straightforward process , and formulae are updated to reflect their new positions automatically . |
| 18 | Their new position also places them closer to their existing warehouse with its dual purposes of storage and manufacture of patterned bordered rugs . |
| 19 | Plant fruit trees and bushes in their permanent positions as soon as possible . |
| 20 | If Britain wished to retain some semblance of leadership in Europe or even to maintain what it regarded as its special position there vis-à-vis the United States , some new arrangement would have to be found . |
| 21 | Use pliers or a small spanner to turn the spindle to full on , noting how many turns this took so you can then restore it to its original position later . |
| 22 | Erected in the third or second century B.C. , the circle now sits in its original position once again . |
| 23 | As Hamilton points out , ‘ very little attention is paid to the conflicts of interest between groups which may relate to their structural position either in an organization or in the wider society ’ ( Hamilton 1980 , p. 49 ) . |
| 24 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |
| 25 | He got up from his crouching position slowly , as if his body was hampered by a heavy weight , and came towards her . |
| 26 | His personal position almost certainly mirrors that of numerous others who gravitated from James to Paul , from a form of Judaism to the increasingly autonomous new religion subsequently called Christianity . |
| 27 | He had said that he regarded all-round cancellation as the only fair solution to inter-Allied debts , and this remained his basic position throughout . |
| 28 | Although Mubarak clearly set out his anti-Iraqi position early on in the crisis , he also openly expressed his wish to " contain " the conflict within the Arab nation . |
| 29 | At Southampton he made his own position devastatingly clear to the waiting journalists . |
| 30 | With his opening salvos the anti-pluralist has , if anything , merely forced his opponent to modify his own position somewhat , not to abandon it . |