Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] position [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Gordon Borrie , the Director General of Fair Trading , argued that the ISE had used its privileged position as the collector of information for regulatory purposes to dominate the news market through TOPIC . |
| 2 | In that case Engineering and Chemicals Supplies Limited ( ECS ) , a small producer of organic peroxides , alleged that the UK subsidiary of Akzo , a large Dutch multinational company , had abused its dominant position in the relevant market by implementing a policy of selective and below cost price-cutting designed to damage ECS 's business and to exclude it as a competitor from the specialised sub-market in the flour additives sector in the UK and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 3 | Having achieved modern technological growth in the period 1849 to 1873 , several of these countries then consolidated their competitive position during the ‘ Victorian depression ’ of the 1880s . |
| 4 | However , its midmarket rival , The Mail on Sunday , has consolidated its own position during the past six months with sales of 2,010,807 against 1,931,025 . |
| 5 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |
| 6 | In a gesture of goodwill and co-operation , the District having established its official position as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses with both the Board and the LEA , withdrew its opposition on the understanding that it was not conceding its providing powers in Essex . |
| 7 | The ‘ friendly and conspiratorial triumvirate ’ of Sir Maurice Holmes , Sir Percival Sharp and Sir Fred Mander had held their respective positions at the Board of Education , the AEC and the NUT since 1936 , 1925 and 1931 . |