Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe I am in the perfect position to write it , as I have spent the last week slumped on the sofa , watching the war . |
| 2 | I 'm in the same position as she is and share exactly the same sentiments . |
| 3 | I 'm in the luxurious position of not just saying that one person comes in here for one job . |
| 4 | Because Joe and I were in the same position of being scolded by Mrs Joe , we were good friends , and Joe protected me from her anger whenever he could . |
| 5 | From Becher 's second-time I was always just struggling , though jumping the third-last I was in the right position and had every chance . |
| 6 | I felt them , if I was in the same position , I would probably drink heavily as well . |
| 7 | As Mager has truthfully ( and unnervingly ) said : " If you are teaching skills that can not be evaluated , you are in the awkward position of being unable to demonstrate that you are teaching anything at all . " |
| 8 | Never bounce up and down once you are in the squatting position . |
| 9 | If you are in the unfortunate position where you do not get your expenses reimbursed , my best advice is go get a job where they are , er , because this is one of the few good things going , er , in terms of tax efficiency and all the rest of it . |
| 10 | If you are in the happy position of being able to plan your kitchen from scratch , rather than attempting to revamp existing layouts and equipment , it is worth giving the matter considerable thought . |
| 11 | I can report back from Jenny and she 's in the same position . |
| 12 | As someone who knew Gedge in both Middleton and Leeds , she was in the perfect position to notice the personality changes brought on by university life . |
| 13 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
| 14 | We are in the wrong position to see the flash of light as the sun erupts again , settling instead for seeing it emerge from behind the northward island as we paddle slowly in . |
| 15 | We are in the unique position of having privileged access to information from their workers in almost every region where refugees are concerned . |
| 16 | Now I would see as one of the erm powerful reasons for being in the leading position that if we are in the leading position , and we know that the right solution from a technical , and probably from an overall cost point of view is the sixteen double O three , or a six eight O seven , come to that , and we know it far enough ahead , |
| 17 | We 're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental . |
| 18 | We 're in the happy position of not needing any more money , so for the first time the bosses are n't in it for the profit . |
| 19 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 20 | Well now , because we were in the Ipswich Borough Police , we were in the fortunate position of knowing that we would serve our full thirty years in Ipswich , which enabled us to buy our own houses through building society . |
| 21 | We were in the happy position of being able to pass the buck . |
| 22 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 23 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 24 | If the Latin Americans had their nationalist sensibilities ruffled by the refusal of the Comintern to recognise that they were in the best position to analyse the situation in their own countries , and were disappointed by the level of support received from Moscow , Comintern officials in their turn were unenthusiastic about the evolution of the Latin American Communist parties and their approach to revolutionary politics . |
| 25 | Other cabinet members made sure they were in the same position . |
| 26 | 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. |
| 27 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |
| 28 | You can feel how the child is positioned with your hands and if it 's not well , I turn it round until it 's in the right position . |
| 29 | What is more , it is in the pleasant position of operating in what is now the fourth most important UK application software market after word processing , spreadsheets and graphics . |
| 30 | It could mean that no stimulus is present or it could mean that it is in the wrong position . |