Example sentences of "to its [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affected fish had previously been swimming on its head and it spine had become deformed due to its awkward position . |
| 2 | After that , move the point cam to its correct position when the carriage is at the opposite side to the cam being moved . |
| 3 | Their line is that the CPP is in a state of shock and will eventually be reconciled to its new position . |
| 4 | Click on the edge of a cell and you can drag it to its new position . |
| 5 | As he loosed the mainsheet the sail swung across to its new position . |
| 6 | After a lengthy , but apparently fruitless , search for an owner , the Connie was auctioned in November 1972 and towed to its current position in the following January . |
| 7 | It is perhaps for these entirely practical reasons that each approximate size and shape of rug is known by a specific name which usually relates either to its traditional position on the floor or the purpose for which is was made . |
| 8 | Primarily it offers 17dB of boost or cut at 40Hz , but pull the knob to its second position and this changes to 18dB of boost/cut at 80Hz , thus offering a more mid-based sound . |
| 9 | Even worse , a major outbreak of direct action could precipitate the kind of revolutionary chaos which , as he saw it , had reduced Russia to its abject position of surrender to Prussian militarism . |
| 10 | There are a variety of methods of attachment but to ensure a tight connection ( which is essential ) the inhaul rope should be tied when the boom is parallel to the mast so that when swung down to its normal position it tightens the rope . |
| 11 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 12 | It was moved to its present position alongside the Ring Road next to St.Mary 's Parish Church during redevelopment of the town centre in 1959 . |
| 13 | It was moved to its present position between 1910 and 1912 . |
| 14 | In essence this meant : ( 1 ) lengthening the 10th by re-siting the green to its present position from its earlier one part way down the fairway ; ( 2 ) shortening the 11th to its present par 3 from its previous 4 . |
| 15 | The statue stood in Argyle Street , near Glasgow Cross , until the early years of this century , at which time the volume of traffic in the city centre necessitated its removal to its present position in Cathedral Square . |
| 16 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 17 | As part of the project , offshore buried late-Glacial and Holocene peat deposits are being studied in an attempt to trace the retreat of the north European coastline from the central North Sea to its present position following the Flandrian rise in sea-level . |
| 18 | The 500-year-old building was moved to its present position by Canadian Army engineers , who floated it on cement and rolled it a quarter of a mile because it obstructed a planned runway ! |
| 19 | It commented in the same year that , ‘ while recognizing the considerable contribution that Mr Hornby has made in building up the Council to its present position of eminence within the colleges , it was now time for the CNAA 's influence to be more widely felt ’ . |
| 20 | Concrete actions and new initiatives are recommended to restore the human dimension to its central position in development policy-making and planning . |
| 21 | The town was not liable to attack owing to its geographical position and extensive fortifications and it was situated near the Fens from which the word ‘ Mercia ’ originated . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position . |
| 24 | On impact the ARC flares out and springs back into shape as the foot comes back to its original position and shape . |
| 25 | After removing ten to fifteen worms from the upturned roots the piece of lawn is returned to its original position , patted down firmly and is none the worse within a week or two . |
| 26 | The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack . |
| 27 | The tape should be returned to its original position in the rack . |
| 28 | An improvement on this basic design was to use a lightweight but rigid rotating rod on which to mount the magnet and mirror , and attach a coil spring at one end , so that once any change in potential difference had been registered the mirror would swing back to its original position . |
| 29 | To pursue the analogy with the sprung mirror galvanometer , the more powerful the spring , the faster the mirror will swing back to its original position . |
| 30 | Now the screen has been moved back to its original position , a new loft formed and the balustrade reunited with the lower part . |