Example sentences of "[adj] position as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The provisions of s 3 of the UCTA apply equally in these circumstances , and the protected party is placed in the same position as a consumer , even if he is acting as a businessman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Students working alone with a video player are in the same position as a teacher using the machine in the classroom — they are in control of the machine and can exploit that fact in similar ways . |
| 6 | In many ways , he is in the same position as a husband who finds that his wife is infertile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |