Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 2 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 3 | Given the stark position on the streets of Northern Ireland , is it not the right hon. Gentleman 's responsibility to set a date for the reconvening of talks , so that they can begin where they ended ? |
| 4 | 1988 : 47–84 ; Enloe 1978 ; Pockrass 1986 ; Weitzer 1985 , 1986 , 1987 a , b ) , this forms only part of RUC duties , given the special position of Northern Ireland among divided societies . |
| 5 | Stafford Cripps , who had occupied the leading position in the League for the past four years , was particularly enthusiastic about the proposed campaign . |
| 6 | In this sense , they may have occupied the same position in the Minoan religious system as angels and demons in the Christian belief-system in medieval Europe . |
| 7 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 8 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 9 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 10 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 11 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 12 | The Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , has adopted the same position as his predecessors , Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr John Major , insisting that the deportations are an essential deterrent against a fresh influx of Vietnamese next year . |
| 13 | ‘ If it is said the constitutional position is not affected then that is the position . |
| 14 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 15 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 16 | Ross 's view that duty is not totally determined by consequences is usually called the deontic position , and is contrasted with consequentialist positions of which hedonistic and ideal utilitarianism are the chief examples . |
| 17 | We have then reached the absurd position that nothing in the world possesses a knowable intrinsic or qualitative nature , for all properties are essentially relational . |
| 18 | Meanwhile we have reached the ridiculous position where executive homes lie empty and unsold in suburbia while the country 's rural young and inner city poor remain unhoused . ’ |
| 19 | These have occurred both within the UK and abroad in the recent period of structural change and have affected the international position of UK manufacturing . |
| 20 | Under the system of fixed exchange rates any export of capital affected the reserve position though precisely how depended on the manner in which the investment was financed . |
| 21 | The strategy which he argues for in the early nineteen thirties , and it subsequently becomes the dominant strategy of the Party and Mao becomes the er recognized leader of the Communist Party er really at the beginning of the second half of the nineteen thirties , nineteen thirty five nineteen thirty six , around that time it has become the dominant position . |
| 22 | He had obviously assessed the resulting positions before the match and it remains a mystery why Short played such a dubious line . |
| 23 | McAggott climbed over the sergeant , who had assumed the foetal position , and staggered back to his office . |
| 24 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 25 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 28 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 29 | In Sweden the negotiation of economy-wide agreements on wages by the union and employer confederations has reinforced the prominent position of the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) . |
| 30 | ‘ This has n't changed the European position . |