Example sentences of "position at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His orders were obeyed by more than 450 competitors but about 30 — they were apparently reluctant to lose their position at the head of the race - steeplechased over the two closed barriers and carried on running . |
| 2 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 3 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 4 | Burbling with a low , sonorous suggestion of vast latent power , the Bentley 's bluff nose inched into position at the beginning of Millbrook 's acceleration straight . |
| 5 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 6 | Many dolphins and porpoises are particularly vulnerable to these poisons , because of both their coastal habitat and their position at the top of the food chain . |
| 7 | They can see that the UN gives them a position at the bargaining table . |
| 8 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 9 | This meant very little to me apart from a salary increase and a move from my position at the extreme right of the Cabinet table to the extreme left . |
| 10 | Many critics of the Orange state suppose that unionists followed the politics they did in order to maintain and increase their material position at the expense of the Catholic nationalist population . |
| 11 | The conservative Wesleyan leader , J. H. Rigg , helped his son get a position at the Historical Manuscripts Commission by contacting the Prime Minister , Arthur Balfour . |
| 12 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When a tank is in position at the top of the incline , its end faces exactly on to the end of its matching channel , with the two portcullis gates , one on the tank , the other on the channel , exactly opposite to one another . |
| 15 | Quite imperceptibly , arrest has moved from a position at the end of the investigative process to a new niche right at the start . |
| 16 | He concluded : ‘ The present position at the site is one of desecration — trees and hedgerows uprooted , ditches filled and meadows flooded . |
| 17 | Bristol 's position at the mouths of the Avon and Severn , facing the Atlantic Ocean , gave it importance as a port many centuries ago , and Bristol mariners were in the forefront of maritime commerce . |
| 18 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 19 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 20 | Many things can go wrong when a nine-man teams speeds along together , constantly changing position at the front . |
| 21 | Having made his eccentric gesture , John returned to his position at the bow of the boat and to the strains of a rousing strathspey he was rowed back to the shore . |
| 22 | Had I met you sooner I doubt I would have entered into it , but Maud 's father is influential and I hope to gain a better position at the hospital on his recommendation . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Correct forearm rotation takes the club to the correct position at the top every time . |
| 25 | It creates power , it cocks your wrists to the swing plane , puts you into the same position at the top every time , and stretches the big muscles of the back . |
| 26 | If your are n't , ask how to get the club into the correct position at the start of the backswing . |
| 27 | A Hawaiian at low level , holding position at the edge of the window . |
| 28 | On Brother machines the recommendation is that the edge needles should always be in the working position at the start of every row . |
| 29 | The sharks seemed less intimidating , so I gulped a lung-full of air and flapped like crazy in an effort to regain my position at the bottom of the tank , clutching my hair-brush and trying to control miles of floating red chiffon . |
| 30 | ( Its position at the front of the volume was later regretted by Wordsworth as some readers were put off . ) |