Example sentences of "the same position as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colour you are assigned arises from your position in the draw , but this may change from round to round , so do n't go to the same position as you went to previously . |
| 2 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By part I of the Law Reform ( Married Women and Tortfeasors ) Act 1935 , a married woman was put into the same position as a man with respect to her proprietary and contractual capacity , and , except in relation to her husband , with respect to her liability for torts . |
| 5 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 6 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 7 | In many ways , he is in the same position as a husband who finds that his wife is infertile . |
| 8 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
| 9 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 10 | Positive regulations requiring the developer to install equipment to prevent , and or abate odour pollution would probably be unenforceable as s.52(2) , which overcomes the limitations of privity of contract , does so by the fiction of placing the local authority in the same position as a landowner entitled to enforce a convenant against an adjoining landowner . |
| 11 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 12 | The contractor chooses one of the three who immediately becomes his responsibility and is in the same position as a domestic subcontractor . |
| 13 | If , at first , she is able to continue with her career , she is in some respects in the same position as the working wife and mother , who has the strain of two heavy areas of responsibility : her home and her job , but with several important differences . |
| 14 | Industrial members , who constitute over half the Institute 's membership , are effectively in the same position as the public as far as the Caparo decision is concerned , since they are involved with other companies ' audited accounts in their capacity of investor or creditor , but their voice is rarely heard and , even then , is ignored . |
| 15 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 16 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 17 | Let us not forget that players such as Wade Dooley have found themselves in much the same position as the Frenchmen described ! |
| 18 | But the pope was in the same position as everyone else in having no clear procedure for reaching a decision . |
| 19 | We are conscious , in general , of some of our memory , and the results of speech generation , though in the latter case we are in much the same position as any other observer ( cf. |
| 20 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 21 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |
| 22 | But it will go back to the same position as that ? |
| 23 | He dies lying across his brother 's body , a complicated split screen effect in which Irons was first Elliot , sprawled half-sitting against the wall with a stand-in across his lap , and then Beverly lying in exactly the same position as the stand-in for a matte shot to be inserted in the first image . |
| 24 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 25 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 26 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 27 | Thus a member of Lautro upon whom an intervention notice is served is in much the same position as a defendant to an action at law against whom an ex parte injunction is obtained . |
| 28 | If it is a possible view that section 8 is intended to put a 16- or 17-year-old in exactly the same position as an adult and there is thus some ambiguity , although I do not think that there is , it is a permissible aid to construction to seek to ascertain the mischief at which the section is directed . |
| 29 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 30 | " The Session find that there is no suitable person to undertake the duties of precentor , and that they are now in the same position as they were two years ago , when Mrs McIver took up the work . |