Example sentences of "[art] [adj] position at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence indicated that wing flaps were in the retracted position at the time of impact . |
| 2 | The hotel occupies the premier position at the head of Regency Square . |
| 3 | Having decided that basic fact , the real problem is getting to the chosen position at the right time and without being shut out by other yachts . |
| 4 | He concluded : ‘ The present position at the site is one of desecration — trees and hedgerows uprooted , ditches filled and meadows flooded . |
| 5 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 6 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 7 | Tory legal-constitutionalism was nothing new in the early eighteenth century — it is in evidence during the years of the Exclusion Crisis and Tory reaction , and its roots can be traced back to the Clarendonian position at the Restoration . |
| 8 | The needles are selected and returned to the working position on every row , whereas on Brother and Toyota the needles are in the selected position at the start of every row . |
| 9 | Correct forearm rotation takes the club to the correct position at the top every time . |
| 10 | If your are n't , ask how to get the club into the correct position at the start of the backswing . |
| 11 | I will go one step further and say that without the correct position at the top of the backswing , other parts of the swing can not function correctly during the forward swing . |
| 12 | Simply because , without the correct position at the top of the backswing , the legs can not co-ordinate with the upper body during the forward swing . |
| 13 | The clearing banks keep operational balances at the Bank which are used for settling the final position at the end of the day between the Bank and the banking system , and their drawing down of money from the discount houses will be designed to keep these balances at a " target " level considered appropriate given the uncertainty of the daily cash flows to the Bank . |
| 14 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 15 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 16 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
| 17 | If you have planned and carried out your strategy of study over the earlier laps , like the 5000-metre runner , you should be on the inside lane and in a good position at the bell for the last lap . |
| 18 | A good position at the start line will put you in the front rank on the first leg |
| 19 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 20 | But his efforts to bring more women into his administration suffered an unexpected setback when Mrs Edwina Currie , who resigned over the salmonella-in-eggs controversy in 1988 , turned down a senior position at the Home Office . |
| 21 | He was initially given a senior position at the Command Centre in the United Nations but when the head of the European operation died in a car crash … which was subsequently proved to have been an accident and not sabotage as originally thought … |
| 22 | Any view which gives speech precedence over writing must be basing its preference on this sort of hierarchical model , which implicitly places ideas in a commanding position at the top , and writing as a degraded form of representation at the bottom . |
| 23 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |