Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] in the position " in BNC.
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1 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
2 | I say , just put yourself in the position of one of those chimps living in concentration-camp conditions . ’ |
3 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
4 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
5 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
6 | Advisers are therefore more often finding themselves in the position of having to tell the client that they can not help in any material way . |
7 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
8 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |
9 | Chapter Four covers all the points so you should never find yourself in the position of having an accident and being helpless . |