Example sentences of "[was/were] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |
| 2 | For they could still buy the best players through club transfers and were in a position to provide small additional incentives to players without increasing their wage-bill . |
| 3 | Yet the polls show that most voters want inflation stopped , and the main opposition , the Workers ' party , while formally denouncing the plan as ‘ authoritarian , demagogic , privatising and favourable to foreign capital ’ , may merely wish it were in a position to do likewise . |
| 4 | Leaseholds were in a position very much like debts . |
| 5 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
| 6 | By the end of 1987 , they felt they were in a position to become more than just learned advisors , and actually released records on their own Reception Records . |
| 7 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 8 | Adeniyi said that in a survey of 93 scientists and engineers from Nigeria who attended overseas courses on remote sensing , only 22 were in a position to apply the knowledge that they had obtained . |
| 9 | If the ownership of rivers and lakes were as well de fined as houses and factories , then the law of tort and contract would ensure that their owners were in a position to take legal action against any company which pumped effluent into them . |
| 10 | Admirals , and those with influence over such officers , were in a position to patronise persons recommended by their friends . |
| 11 | Lentricchia and Eagleton , by contrast , invoke history rather like ‘ the political ’ : an outside , a concrete , that somehow remains exterior to ‘ theory ’ , unaffected by it , capable of enclosing it and even swallowing it up — as if history were in a position to consume theory . |
| 12 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 13 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 14 | The Royal Commission did not believe that the existing local authorities were in a position to meet the challenges they had identified . |
| 15 | The pro-English party must have realised , however , that neither they nor their masters in London were in a position to hold out for long . |
| 16 | It has questioned how far they were in a position to ‘ smuggle in ’ alien dogmas and indoctrinate the masses , and how far they were responsible for the development of class consciousness among workers . |
| 17 | Professionals were in a position in which the interventions they engaged in denied young disabled people the very control over their own lives and education they were intended to promote . |
| 18 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 19 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 20 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 21 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 22 | Please , first , advise me how you were in a position to recommend the allocation and development of housing at Colt Hill without first consulting the Regional Council on a proposal which is inconsistent with approved Structure Plan policy . |
| 23 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 24 | They had access to the schedule to be used ( Document 2 ) and thus were in a position to know what criteria would be used to observe and evaluate them . |
| 25 | Given their prior , distinctive relationship with industry and commerce , the polytechnics were in a position to provide courses ‘ that are more relevant to industrial and commercial needs than the traditional academic courses at universities ’ . |
| 26 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 27 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 28 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 29 | Both East Coker and London were in a sense ‘ home ’ for Eliot , but , as he reminds us ‘ Home is where one starts from ’ . |
| 30 | For the keys — often made of thick grey iron , sometimes with decorated handles — were in a sense a promise of return , a promise that history inevitably broke . |