Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | believe that Labour policies would make the economic position dramatically worse . |
| 2 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map , and mark the distance ( see fig 39 ) . |
| 3 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map and mark the distance . |
| 4 | A failure to recognise the implications of demographic change for the labour market as a whole is a further factor which could seriously affect the competitive position of smaller businesses . |
| 5 | On new office accommodation the Council will explain the latest position regarding the new building at South Gyle . |
| 6 | It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position . |
| 7 | Thus , in order to understand an attitudinal position , one must know the counter-attitudinal position . |
| 8 | The astronomer , who can predict the exact position of a planet in the heavens one thousand years hence , knows not what may be his own state of health tomorrow … ’ |
| 9 | 4.1 Let us now consider the fourth position for adjectives : predicate qualifying occurrence , seen in : ( 1 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong the jury found Ernest guilty she buys her dresses ready-made |
| 10 | Care must be taken , however , to ensure that a broader-based policy does not simply confirm the subordinate position of women as the primary domestic workers . |
| 11 | Through the autobiographies we can identify the economic position of 72 grand-parents . |
| 12 | She might suspect the exact position ; with her knowledge , she probably did , but much better not to say . |
| 13 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 14 | Concern has been voiced that an unregulated internal labour market will undermine the competitive position of those member states who have relatively high wages and social security without a more comprehensive approach . |
| 15 | Finally , labour costs ; differences in labour productivity are often greater than differences in wage levels , and the levelling up of wage levels with economic integration may undermine the competitive position of some regions . |
| 16 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 17 | I would say you could defend the British position because what it seems to me to be based on is first of all the idea that the institution itself should make the decision , and that surely is a democratic start , that you do n't lay down a rule from Newcastle to John O'Groats , or wherever , and that the people in the institution have a certain chemistry together . |
| 18 | There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item . |
| 19 | He groped his way back towards her , and Cassie laughed again as she watched his stumbling progress around the bottom of the bed he gave it a wide berth , so perhaps the nineteen forties bed , which must occupy the same position as her own , was longer or wider than hers . |
| 20 | The central problem is that you could never measure the original position of the page with sufficient accuracy . |
| 21 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 22 | To take the particular case of relevance to this book , adjectives in English are , broadly , those words which can instantiate the P in both patterns of : Verbs can instantiate the latter position but not the former ; the lexical meaning expressed by a given verb must , exactly , undergo a change of syntactic class in order to do this , this usually being marked by an overt morphological change . |
| 23 | It is suggested that she did not appreciate the legal position , although she was in receipt of legal advice at the time . |
| 24 | As Dr J. A. Glover put it , ‘ though I fear the findings would be disquieting it seems to me wiser for the Board itself to discover and publish the true position rather than that others should do so ’ . |
| 25 | A difficult aspect between Mars and Saturn could jeopardise the enviable position you are in now . |
| 26 | Now imagine we lift a marble above the table ( Fig. 1b ) we can call the raised-up position state A and table level , state B. Here , the object is only stable when it is on the table . |
| 27 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 28 | So we all know that Benn is black and yet at the same time the Guardian can maintain the implicit position : ‘ Black ? |
| 29 | In this chapter we shall outline the present position in each country and consider the response to the reorganisation of the early 1970s. first , however , we need to consider further the principles which informed the debates about local government structure . |
| 30 | Keep the rudder where it is and allow the speed to increase a few knots so that both you and the student can observe the exact position of the rudder pedals . |