Example sentences of "[adj] position [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comedy king Dave Allen returns for a series of six half-hour performances starting on January 5 and Margi Clarke looks at the ins and outs of sex from every conceivable position in The Good Sex Guide ( Jan 11 ) . |
| 2 | Breach of the peace is no longer an essential element : all that is required is a defamatory statement of some seriousness , and " seriousness " may be inferred from the public position of the person about whom it is made . |
| 3 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 4 | Once the new growth has started to emerge , pot them on into new compost , water well and place in a light position on the greenhouse bench . |
| 5 | I had set a personal best of 10.5 seconds in my semi-final , and was running into silver-medal position in the final when my hamstring went . |
| 6 | At the beginning of 1547 , therefore , the doctrinal position of the English church was unequivocally orthodox . |
| 7 | According to Bernard , as there was a long and well-established tradition of acceptability of anti-predestinarian theology going back to 1559 and beyond , the events of the 1630s did not represent any sea-change in the doctrinal position of the English church . |
| 8 | But what was the doctrinal position of the Celtic Church ? |
| 9 | When this is combined with the fact that the Republic was an overwhelmingly Catholic country whose constitution recognized the special superordinate position of the Catholic Church , it is easy to see how any state recognition of the Pope or the Catholic hierarchy could be seen as a ‘ constitutional ’ issue . |
| 10 | Besides emphasising the fact that certain behaviour was unacceptable , this ritual reaffirmed senior staff 's superordinate position in the system . |
| 11 | It seems obvious that the time is now ripe for a completely new approach to our commercial position in the present and future world , by using our new natural resources , creating new jobs and new industries , and utilising our known talents , facilities and advantages to the best possible effect . |
| 12 | For slip stitch the main carriage is set to slip so the cam lever is on S on Silver and Knitmaster machines , both Part buttons are in on Brother and the selection lever or dial is set to the central empty position on the Toyota models 901 and 950 . |
| 13 | The first correspondent holds a distinguished position in the highest ranks of the nursing profession ; the second is the author of books on social work with children . |
| 14 | The great landowners , such as the Bedfords , Derbys and Sutherlands kept their high position in the realms of the landed rich , despite the decline of inter-war agriculture , and the Rothschilds and the Sterns consolidated their financial position through their work in the City of London . |
| 15 | The regimental signallers belonged to the Wolverton company and always obtained a high position among the home district signallers at the annual official examinations . |
| 16 | The patient would have to have an almost normal trunk , without any associated reactions or increased spasticity as he was placed in the prone position on the plinth . |
| 17 | The Bank 's forecast of the daily position of the money markets is designed to help this process . |
| 18 | You' 11 find that after a few accumulated hours of stunting , one handle will have to be held back a little from the other to hold the overhead soaring position of the kite . |
| 19 | The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love . |
| 20 | This is associated with the anomalous position of the G10 5' phosphate , which is displaced by 2 from its expected position in regular B-form DNA ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 21 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 22 | She became worried about the appearance of the place , about her cooking , and about her anomalous position in the household . |
| 23 | Since they were working with coordinators whose jobs were — at LEA insistence — properly specified , their anomalous position in the school could be severely aggravated by PNP . |
| 24 | With their increased membership and improved position on the Volkstag the NSDAP felt confident enough to begin behaving badly in public . |
| 25 | As overhauled cars returned from Hendon , route boards were fitted just below the saloon windows , where they were more accessible than in the old position on the upper deck . |
| 26 | Current research is focused on the examination of changes in household structure , with particular attention to the residential position of the elderly , within thirteen contrasting communities in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Each time the game is played the animals are in a different position on the screen . |
| 28 | These include a different position for the face of the nude woman ; a different colour for the drapery of the clothed woman ( originally red , now white ) and less of it ; and more figures — now difficult to read precisely — at the left hand side of the composition . |
| 29 | No , I was just thinking , we we 're , we 're debating the in the Commons at the moment , changing the parole board from having part-time members , to having salaried full-time ones , which are on limited contracts and that clearly puts those parole board members in a different position to the Home Secretary and one it 's ju you just do it because it 's a part-time activity , you may get some expenses that you think is important , and I just wanted to get clear whether the Chairman on a limited contract a large part of their work appointed by the employer . |
| 30 | The President and his advisers are in a completely different position vis-a-vis the legislature compared with the Cabinet in Britain . |