Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Facts is able to treat the historical conditioning of Portnoy 's Complaint in a way in which the novel itself was not in a position to do . |
| 2 | I know I 'm not in a position to be choosy , but I ca n't cope with the idea of living there — it 's just beyond |
| 3 | ‘ I am informed that the Girobank is not in a position to take a decision about full ownership of the company . ’ |
| 4 | The CLR is not in a position to replace the Tory Government . |
| 5 | When work alienates , people find a sense of security , because they 're not in a position of having to really deal with something . ’ |
| 6 | The only creature who could explain what had happened was Devon Loch , and he was not in a position to give interviews . |
| 7 | Some people in Würzburg saw the raid as revenge for the pogrom against the Jews in November 1938 , and ‘ intellectual circles ’ reportedly took the view that Germany ‘ should stop the war , if one was not in a position really to prevent attacks on towns and industrial centres ’ . |
| 8 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Ukraine , at loggerheads with Russia on military issues , insists that the accord must be turned into a multilateral one and that Russia is not in a position to ratify it on behalf of the other republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The District was experiencing yet again a deficit on its Chapter III course programme and thus was not in a position to contemplate an expansionist stance in East Suffolk . |
| 11 | They are probably shocked by the news , and are not in a position to make a rational decision . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , A , he 's not in a position to give it to me , and B , I would n't stoop to that sort of thing . ’ |
| 13 | Although I am not in a position to provide any of the detailed statistics Mr Gillett calls for , I can certainly tell the sad tale of the missing books . |
| 14 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the Feldwebel was talking excitedly to the driver like a school-boy egging on an accomplice to do something which he is fortunately not in a position to do himself . |
| 16 | He is not in a position to deal effectively with the fast , short delivery bowled at his body . |
| 17 | I 'm not criticising guitar players — after all , I 'm one myself and not in a position to be judgmental . |
| 18 | Where the national audit offices are not in a position to meet the Court of Auditors ' requirements , private professional firms should be asked to do so . ’ |
| 19 | Like most Romanians , who were not in a position to exercise any discretion in the matter , the couple had an almost slavish regard for the most commercialized features of capitalist culture . |
| 20 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 21 | A police officer may see a person driving a motor vehicle , who he knows to be disqualified but is not in a position to stop the driver . |
| 22 | This election concept was introduced because the founding fathers felt the public was not in a position to make up its own mind . |
| 23 | I am not in a position to judge . ’ |
| 24 | Or if you 're not in a position to make a decision , why not suggest it to the woolly mammoth ? |
| 25 | I 'm not in a position to criticize anyone 's sexual life . ’ |
| 26 | With regret , therefore , I have to inform you that we are not in a position to offer you employment in any research division of the company . |
| 27 | Sociologists of religion are not in a position to say whether or not a particular movement is or is not ‘ really ’ a religion . |
| 28 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |
| 29 | It is not hard to see why , since we are not in a position to evaluate the merits of different population distributions in any meaningful way . |
| 30 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |