Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the same position [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students working alone with a video player are in the same position as a teacher using the machine in the classroom — they are in control of the machine and can exploit that fact in similar ways . |
| 2 | Yes and the county are in the same position as everybody else in not having been able to check it . |
| 3 | I 'm in the same position as she is and share exactly the same sentiments . |
| 4 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 5 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 6 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 7 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 8 | Fitting a new sink may seem a somewhat daunting task but it need n't be , provided the new sink is going to be in the same position as the old one . |
| 9 | ‘ Stress related injuries caused by the nature of the league programme are a new phenomenon and who is to say that all of those who have had to call off from this match will not still be in the same position when we go to play Portugal in our next World Cup qualifying tie ? ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 10 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 11 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |
| 12 | In many ways , he is in the same position as a husband who finds that his wife is infertile . |
| 13 | The contractor chooses one of the three who immediately becomes his responsibility and is in the same position as a domestic subcontractor . |
| 14 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 15 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 16 | But the pope was in the same position as everyone else in having no clear procedure for reaching a decision . |