Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the tension persists between the liberal position , which advocates non-regulation or delegalization of matters identified as personal or private , and the absolutist position which advocates regulation on the outbreak of moral panic . |
| 2 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 3 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 4 | The defender stands in the ready position ( yoi ) , awaiting the impending attack . |
| 5 | Eventually the scarp will retreat from the original position of faulting and it may be buried by sediment . |
| 6 | And by altering a few easy to undo buckles , baby can be carried in the cradling position and you can breast feed in privacy . |
| 7 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ This point is usually proved by asking the person suspected of parking or causing the vehicle to be parked in the offending position ‘ Are you responsible for this vehicle being left in this position ? ’ |
| 8 | Triceps extension — slowly lower the dumb-bell to the back of the head and then press to the vertical position |
| 9 | 6 The exercise is completed by landing and returning to the crouched position . |
| 10 | Repeat 5 times to each side , returning to the lying position between sides . |
| 11 | This study thus confirmed our theory that the proliferating compartment of the background colonic crypts is confined to the normal position , even when the crypts affect the initial stage of development of adenomas . |
| 12 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 13 | At the same time , the editor fails to remark that when dealing with military servomechanisms , you can speak of the future position of the gun and compare that with ‘ future ’ human purposes . |
| 14 | She took a step nearer , and her ears moved into the forward position . |
| 15 | CVC Trigrams ( 32 card set ) : The stimuli are presented in the same position on the cards , but are consonant-vowel-consonant trigrams , again 16 on the left and 16 on the right . |
| 16 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 17 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 18 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 19 | The Royalbion Hospitality Unit was the biggest of them all and was sited in the best position . |
| 20 | If these complex changes over time in the relationship between general improvements in attainment , social bases of recruitment and expanded further educational opportunities are not taken into account , the general improvement can appear from the fixed position of an employer as a decline in standards . |
| 21 | To some extent the choice of booksellers depends upon the geographical position of the library and its proximity to a large city . |
| 22 | The principles of justice adopted in the original position are neutral between different conceptions of the good . |
| 23 | Uncle and nephew knelt shoulder to shoulder , hands cupped , heads bowed in the simple position of submission . |
| 24 | An obvious case is that of food , which may be graded according to the social position of the consumer . |
| 25 | The programme will be worth 380 MECU of Community funds and , according to the Common Position , the breakdown between the different application areas will be : |
| 26 | According to the Popperian position , the observation statements that form the basis with respect to which the merit of a scientific theory is to be assessed are themselves fallible . |
| 27 | The needles for the stitches in contrast colour will be selected to the upper position as the carriage crosses the needlebed and picks up colour two from the second yarn feed ( the ‘ butterfly ’ . |
| 28 | Figure 5.11 shows how the value stored at one pixel position in a memory bank is mapped to the corresponding position on the TV monitor display . |
| 29 | However , events have only moved to the present position as a result of the intransigence of the school 's management , and the reluctance to listen and respond to the concerns of a large number of parents . |
| 30 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |