Example sentences of "[verb] its position [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 2 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 3 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 4 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 5 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 6 | Owners , whose holiday brands include Sovereign , Enterprise and Falcon , had sought an alliance with German-owned Thomas Cook to cement its position in the competitive UK market , but fast-growing and highly-profitable Airtours came in with a rival bid to spark off weeks of rhetoric and activity which finally ended yesterday . |
| 7 | The picture also served as a useful summary or overview of the whole EPH situation , reflecting its position in the surrounding community , liaison links with social workers and relatives of the clients , and its relationship with the area office and the department headquarters . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum . |
| 9 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 10 | The Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , which represented the bulk of the former Communist Party , with 16.1 per cent of the vote and 107 seats , confirmed its position as the leading opposition party and therefore figured prominently in the discussions on the formation of a new governing coalition . |
| 11 | CADBURY Schweppes stepped up its efforts to strengthen its position in the continental chocolate market with the purchase of a 70 p.c. stake and an option to buy the balance in privately owned Piasten , one of the biggest companies in the German boxed chocolate market . |
| 12 | Though Ford UK lost £274 million in the UK in 1990 — its first taxable loss since 1972 — Ford Credit , its finance and leasing arm , made pre-tax profits of £56 million , up 37 per cent on the previous year , confirming its position among the top 10 UK finance houses . |
| 13 | How often has America used its position within the United Nations to prevent even an investigation into Israeli massacres in occupied Palestine ? |
| 14 | While the Communists were engaged in manoeuvres on the fringe of labour politics , the Independent Labour Party was about to abandon its position within the Labour Party and to give up its effective role as an alternative Left party . |
| 15 | IBM also strengthened its position in the booming peripherals sector ; it developed various different networking systems . |
| 16 | HAWKER SIDDELEY yesterday strengthened its position in the European electric motors business by agreeing to purchase GEC Alsthom 's electromotors division in a deal worth between £35m and £40m . |
| 17 | When a lion gets close enough to strike , it usually does so with great skill and confidence and does not appear to be miscalculating its position to the slightest degree . |
| 18 | The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party — PCI ) to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope . |
| 19 | A word such as ‘ moribund ’ , used by Annan to describe its position in the late 1950s , was no longer remotely appropriate . |
| 20 | Under the chairmanship of Juan Trippe PAA had rapidly increased its position in the 1930s , enjoying a monopoly on US flights across the Pacific to Japan and China , into Latin America , and over to Britain . |
| 21 | It is a fine , Medieval bridge , guarded at each end and fortified as befitted its position as the sole river crossing and approach to the castle . |
| 22 | The M19-Democratic Alliance ( ADM-19 ) of former left-wing guerrillas , which ran a single slate of candidates , consolidated its position as the third political force in the country , winning nine Senate seats and 15 in the lower house , although its support dropped dramatically from 27 to 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 23 | THE Renfrew-based engineer , Howden Group , yesterday consolidated its position in the international industrial fan market with the acquisition of a Danish-based fan manufacturer , Novenco Industries for £22 million . |
| 24 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | The system works by emitting a series of signals to orbiting satellites , timing the return signal and computing its position from the resulting ‘ fixes ’ . |
| 26 | The British Medical Association is currently reviewing its position on the permanent vegetative state . |
| 27 | MORGAN Grenfell has maintained its position as the top financial adviser for British public takeovers . |
| 28 | The fact is , however , that it is Anglo-Welsh which needs Palatine , to improve its position in the on-trade sector . |
| 29 | The Mexican environmentalist organisation , Group of 100 , has attacked an article in the newspaper , Excelsior , which claimed that the group had changed its position on the international embargo on Mexican tuna . |
| 30 | The Top-selling hardback in the British book trade leading up to Christmas 1991 was Pauline Cockrill 's The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book and it had held its position among the top ten hardbacks for over two months . |