Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control panel is sited very sensibly in a line-of-sight position , on the upper edge of the body , toward the neck joint . |
| 2 | The reason for this is straightforward , since if the established firm is in the position of already having sunk its fixed costs then it is naturally in a better position than the potential entrant , because the cost of the equipment is irrelevant to the decision as to whether to produce . |
| 3 | I believe that my account of events is a good deal nearer the truth than some that have since been published : but then I was perhaps in a better position than some other observers to know what was going on . |
| 4 | On the first issue , teachers are obviously in a crucial position to detect cases of abuse of children in their care . |
| 5 | While Danzigers were most definitely on the sharp end of Polish-German relations they were also historically and personally in a unique position to give the lie to Nazi manipulation and simplification . |
| 6 | These skirmishes are rarely any more than two males approaching each other and lowering their heads until they are pointing head down in a vertical position . |
| 7 | I wish I could be doing something , moving , he thought , with an infantryman 's loathing of being pinned down in a known position . |
| 8 | But last night Taylor said : ‘ Our case was that the video showed evidence of contact between the players and that the referee was not in a good position to judge . ’ |
| 9 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 10 | To a certain extent you are not in a good position to know what you want until you have some experience . |
| 11 | Locate the ceiling joists , and if not in a suitable position fit noggins in between the joists . |
| 12 | Flying erase is a system in which the erase heads are located , not in a fixed position , but mounted instead on the rotating head-drum alongside the video heads . |
| 13 | Monolingual British course members wishing to teach EFL or ESOL are certainly not better students , they do not achieve higher grades and are not in a dominant position within the group . |
| 14 | Religion had to be integrated with its surrounding society , not in a subservient position , but forming the vital heart of the culture . |
| 15 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | Best J. appeared to consider that the payment was involuntary inasmuch as the attorney , being in ignorance of the true situation , both parties were not in an equal position . |
| 17 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 18 | They were not in an easy position . |
| 19 | The strings here play a melodic line including the major 3rd of E7 ( G£ ) , while the bass gets away with a low G natural ( as it is only a sixteenth note long and not in an exposed position ! ) . |
| 20 | I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot . |
| 21 | They are thus in a good position to forecast potential needs as well . |
| 22 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 23 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 24 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 25 | Professionals who are already in a powerful position over their patients or clients because of their superior knowledge can also induce a feeling of deference because the client has not paid for the service . |
| 26 | We asked her mother who , in spite of being Jewish and already in a precarious position , did not hesitate for a moment . |
| 27 | ( ante 1248– c. 1313 ) , administrator , first appears in surviving records , but already in a responsible position , in 1269 . |
| 28 | Member States are generally in a good position to protect their own interests through the organisation . |
| 29 | Experience in the United States shows that suppliers can evade or manipulate regulations through collusion between managers and clinicians and purchasers are usually in a weaker position to verify the claims suppliers make ( Light 1990 ) Effective enforcement is difficult and costly . |
| 30 | My mother was once more in a difficult position . |