Example sentences of "in positions [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partners in same-sex couples and remarried divorcees were accepted in positions of church leadership . |
| 2 | Pray for the Nazareth hospital management and all those in positions of responsibility that they may receive daily guidance and strength for their tasks . |
| 3 | A vice-principal of a teachers ' university probably spoke on behalf of many party members in positions of responsibility when he said that some young comrades lacked the ‘ backbone of Marxism-Leninism ’ , especially those studying liberal arts subjects . |
| 4 | Success required dogged determination , academic ability , money , plenty of patience for dealing with the state bureaucracy and some useful contacts or ‘ guanxi ’ , i.e. connections with people in positions of responsibility who could help , which was becoming an increasingly important way of getting things done in China . |
| 5 | However it reveals some implicit discrimination especially amongst those in positions of responsibility . |
| 6 | Through its founder Molly Braithwaite , for who we held a heartfelt admiration , we feel an affectionate living bond with all those in positions of responsibility within the MEDAU SOCIETY . |
| 7 | Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters . |
| 8 | Generally indecent assault and gross indecency cases against males reported in the national press are not characterised by overt violence , but point to the dangers of the persuasive powers of people in positions of trust taking sexual advantage . |
| 9 | " On 2 November , 800 employees , inclusive of apprentices , journeymen , readers and men in positions of trust , gave two weeks notice " and the strike began on 15 November . |
| 10 | The fact that old Stasi agents are still in positions of influence , doing well financially out of reunification , has led many East Germans to fear that things have not changed . |
| 11 | However , others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state . |
| 12 | With critics and journalists in positions of influence in the worlds of culture and education and in society as a whole , art has degenerated into a mere topic of inconsequential chit-chat , and criticism , correspondingly , into the cement of a worthless social milieu . |
| 13 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 14 | but it does highlight a need and I 'm not going to tread on the Treasurer 's toes in this instant but certainly that will add to the financial burden of running the Association but if its to increasing its lobbying power and authority over those in positions of influence , then above all we do need a very large membership . |
| 15 | Power was exercised not by parliament but by the parties themselves , which had complete freedom to put their own men in positions of influence . |
| 16 | They were all in positions of heads of department , consequently I got the feeling that the secondary modern staff who could cope with it to a certain extent , withdrew labour . |
| 17 | there is no doubt that from the perspective of incumbents in positions of command or maintenance in structure , communitas — even when it becomes normative — represents a real danger , and indeed for all those , including even political leaders who spend much of their lives in structural role playing , it represents a temptation . |
| 18 | Beneath the very greatest in the land , others were ready to act in positions of command when circumstances , such as war on a number of fronts , demanded it . |
| 19 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 20 | At the socio-economic level , the traditionally powerful agricultural interests established themselves in positions of control in industry and commerce , and were remarkably successful in transferring landowner-peasant patronage relationships from the countryside to the cities . |
| 21 | The social engineering which placed them in positions of powerlessness ensured that the only female voice readily heard was that of the shrill tones of the satirised scold — a literary stereotype . |
| 22 | By and large , the same people are still in positions of power in those authorities . |
| 23 | Also in his forties — Morgan disliked older men in positions of power — Evans was a large heavily built man , simian arms hanging by his sides , with a moon-like face and dark hair . |
| 24 | And if you look around at the world and try and find the women in positions of power , you have to say , where are they ? |
| 25 | Henry started to mutter , into the duvet , the names of women in positions of power . |
| 26 | This human willingness to lay the blame for harsh and unhappy conditions of life upon some identifiable enemy , without pursuing with sufficient persistence , evidence to support the action , has frequently become a powerful tool in the hands of people in positions of power who , mindful of their own shortcomings or wrongful behaviour , direct attention elsewhere and turn wrath upon innocent people , adding still further to human dissension . |
| 27 | Overt lesbian presence , certainly at any level of decision-making or control , is almost non-existent , reflecting the general lack of women in positions of power within broadcasting . |
| 28 | It insisted that men were always in positions of power . |
| 29 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 30 | This would suggest that the study of politics and the mass media needs to take account of the relationships between the media and those in positions of power ; it also needs to focus on specific and recognizable instances of ‘ impact ’ and ‘ effects ’ as well as the deeper level of perceptions of politics and of the political system . |