Example sentences of "[adj] position at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first , the shape into which the social formation is predisposed to settle , though contested , is obvious and is a powerful influence on the culture ; the second — despite an underlying complexity in the cultural relationships — possesses brilliant if temporary clarity arising from its historical position at the beginning of a period of great situational adjustment . |
| 2 | The evidence indicated that wing flaps were in the retracted position at the time of impact . |
| 3 | Guy Sterne glanced over from his nonchalant position at the tiller . |
| 4 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |
| 5 | The hotel occupies the premier position at the head of Regency Square . |
| 6 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 7 | Filming stopped the entire unit decamped for lunch , and then had to abandon the scene as the tide had gone out and the puffer dropped from its previous position at the pier . |
| 8 | A fat , smelly old harridan with a stick became quite offensive when Damien attempted to thrust his way to his rightful position at the front of the queue . |
| 9 | This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics . |
| 10 | Having decided that basic fact , the real problem is getting to the chosen position at the right time and without being shut out by other yachts . |
| 11 | But after Gaveston 's execution in June 1312 he returned to a more comfortable position at the king 's side . |
| 12 | Since the late 1960s , though , organised labour has been displaced from its focal position at the crux of education for social change , and a growing rift has opened up between those who work in education for trade unionists and those who work in community-based forms of radical adult education . |
| 13 | He concluded : ‘ The present position at the site is one of desecration — trees and hedgerows uprooted , ditches filled and meadows flooded . |
| 14 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 15 | If you have planned and carried out your strategy of study over the earlier laps , like the 5000-metre runner , you should be on the inside lane and in a good position at the bell for the last lap . |
| 16 | A good position at the start line will put you in the front rank on the first leg |
| 17 | Then she saw her once more , as she checked her horse in the melee before easing him through to take up their regular position at the front . |
| 18 | Before the sea can effect any further erosion at the base of the cliff it will have to reduce the cliff debris to such a size that it can be transported away from its protecting position at the base of the cliff . |
| 19 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 20 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 21 | Roman glanced over his shoulder from his laconic position at the cabin entrance , watching as Caroline , clad in white Bermudas and canary-yellow shirt , darted around in the cockpit of the yacht , efficiently dealing with the paraphernalia of setting sail . |
| 22 | We plot the south magnetic pole from its initial position at the North Geographic Pole through , for example , the Americas , to the South Geographic Pole . |
| 23 | Many things can go wrong when a nine-man teams speeds along together , constantly changing position at the front . |
| 24 | The town has much evidence of its Middle Ages importance , brought about by its strategic position at the end of the lake . |
| 25 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 26 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 27 | Fifty year old Manuela Sanchez from Cholsey near Wallingford is in a critical but stable position at the Harefield Hospital , while doctors scour the continent for a suitable donor organ . |
| 28 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 29 | If I can turn to the balance sheet , it 's a little more complicated , we 're in a rather odd position at the thirtieth of June of incorporating the Thames er , balance sheet because our offer went unconditional . |
| 30 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |