Example sentences of "in a [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 2 | ‘ Sinn Fein is not the IRA and is not involved in any violence , a position which even the British Government now accepts , so we are not in a position to call on the IRA to end its campaign . |
| 3 | Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so . |
| 4 | Those responsible for agricultural education and training do not aim , in the main , at the less productive farm but the Agricultural Training Board is in a position to respond to the training needs of any section of agriculture and could play an important part here if the need is established . |
| 5 | In two closely argued and provocative essays Alfred Rieber claimed that the object of the emancipation was not even to benefit the gentry ( let alone the peasantry ) , but rather to put the principal institutions of the autocracy , the treasury and the army , in a position to recover from the ravages of the Crimean War . |
| 6 | A landed proprietor himself — he inherited 27000 acres on Cranborne Chase , in Dorset — he was in a position to talk to the gentry as an equal , and he certainly had ample force of personality . |
| 7 | As I am anxious to progress discussions on the two projects as soon as possible , and may be in a position to report to the Economic Development Committee before then , I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the above at your earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | President Reagan 's claim that ‘ No other nation is in a position to deal with the key parties to the conflict on the basis of trust and reliability' jarred with assessments in early 1982 that no more than 0.5 per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank considered the United States was ‘ helpful ’ to the Palestinians in the search for a solution , and only approximately 2 per cent in the territories believed the United States was serious about a peaceful solution to the Middle East . |
| 9 | The European Parliament on June 10 passed a resolution by 238 votes to 55 with 10 abstentions expressing its determination " that the process of establishing European Union should proceed without delay " , and the hope that " Denmark will be in a position to return to the fold as soon as possible " . |
| 10 | However now that we have a theory of communication ( Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) embedded within an overall theory of mind ( Fodor 1983 ) , and the beginnings of a model of grammar devised to reflect the assumptions about language implicit in these theories ( Kempson forthcoming ) , we are at last in a position to work towards the formal articulation of theories of linguistic knowledge and reasoning within an overall theory of mind . |
| 11 | I have not undertaken a review of NIE plc 's purchases of generation and I am not in a position to comment on the relative costs of the various options . |
| 12 | Well he 's got to be in a position to complete by the time the notice runs out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I told him he was n't really in a position to look after the dog properly , and he finally agreed . |
| 15 | On the other hand , other regions may well be in a position to benefit from the discovery of natural resource stocks such as oil and gas . |
| 16 | The six month run there will be costly for Jenny , who had to sacrifice the opportunity of a starring role in a film to stay with the play . |
| 17 | Anyone for croquet … it 's the latest popular sport ORMSEBY Hall , on Teesside , is among croquet clubs nationwide which open their doors and lawns to the public this weekend in a bid to put over the message that this is a sport for all . |
| 18 | LENNIE Lawrence has promised to be ruthless in his Middlesbrough team selection in a bid to live with the best in the Premier League next season . |
| 19 | It is believed that the UDA could now change its name in a bid to get round the law . |
| 20 | A WARNING that the Church of Scotland 's parish structure could collapse in the face of threatened cuts in funding has been made in a report to go to the General Assembly in May . |
| 21 | ASK/Ingres and Sybase Corp have reportedly undergone management shake-outs and implemented restructuring initiatives in a move to respond to the changing nature of the software industry . |
| 22 | The group to jump , known as a stick , hooked up and shuffled in a line to exit from the side door . |
| 23 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |