Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] position as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 2 | Its importance in the fifteenth century was connected with its position as the centre of Italian trade in England , but the Florentine galleys disappeared from the port after 1478 and the Venetians after 1509 . |
| 3 | Having played on his position as the injured party , Lewis has achieved a result that , even if he 's truly aggrieved , suits both he and Bowe . |
| 4 | These arose mainly from its reliance on a rigid theoretical framework which views the urban system as an autonomous political entity — one characterized by its position as the site of collective consumption practices . |
| 5 | ‘ The survival of Rock has depended on its position as the core of Male Teen Culture . |
| 6 | Tom Clarke has been removed from his position as the Shadow Scottish Secretary . |
| 7 | As time went on , and the sultans who succeeded Mehmed II built their own medreses , the Sahn slipped from its position as the highest class of medreses , and , in the fully elaborated hierarchy , is only the sixth of twelve grades above the 40-akce level . |
| 8 | The Falangists derived what power they had from their positions as the instruments of Francoism ; they had no organizational capacity outside the framework of the regime and no international support at all . |
| 9 | Its impact drove the strongly pro-English Angus into the Arran-Beaton camp ; his lands lay in the path of oncoming English armies , and the Scottish government could capitalize on this , by appealing to his position as the great man and protector of his locality , reinforcing such sentiments with a pension . |