Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by altering a few easy to undo buckles , baby can be carried in the cradling position and you can breast feed in privacy . |
| 2 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ This point is usually proved by asking the person suspected of parking or causing the vehicle to be parked in the offending position ‘ Are you responsible for this vehicle being left in this position ? ’ |
| 3 | The principles of justice adopted in the original position are neutral between different conceptions of the good . |
| 4 | Uncle and nephew knelt shoulder to shoulder , hands cupped , heads bowed in the simple position of submission . |
| 5 | The track is used in the front position for sailing into wind , as nearly all the length of the board is in the water and this provides greatest sideways resistance . |
| 6 | Starting at the top , carefully remove the stones or bricks , and stack them so that they can be replaced in the correct position |
| 7 | This is called in the READY position . |
| 8 | The motor is mounted in the upright position , at right angles to the blade . |
| 9 | After removal of the guidewire the lithotrite was introduced in its collapsed form through the sheath and once within the gall bladder the lithotrite basket was opened and locked in the open position . |
| 10 | Immediately the whole stage is lit up , revealing , upstage , arranged in the approximate positions last held by the dead TRAGEDIANS , the tableau of court and corpses which is the last scene of Hamlet . |
| 11 | All the patients were treated in the prone position , with the shock waves entering from the ventral side . |
| 12 | Notice the 120mm gun remains stabilised in the horizontal position whatever the angle of the chassis of the tank |
| 13 | If the reason is not self-evident , it soon emerges when we imagine an appropriate part of to be placed in the verbal position . |
| 14 | The picture will only appear if it 's placed in the correct position . |
| 15 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 16 | A paper cup , empty coke can or washing-up liquid container placed in the right position will explain to even the most ardent disbeliever that their swing really is out-to-in and not the most beautiful inside one they thought it was ! |
| 17 | In this way the UKCC not only keeps a ‘ live ’ register of practising professionals , but ensures that they are not placed in the vulnerable position of attempting to give care without sufficient up to date theoretical and practical knowledge . |
| 18 | He can only be placed in the lying position for effective treatment purposes when he can balance well enough to be taken through this pattern of movements without increasing his spasticity . |
| 19 | The Ford Island scenes were mainly those of destruction of the PBYs , which were placed in the exact position of the those PBYs lost in the actual attack . |
| 20 | During the hearing Michael Grade , chief executive of Channel Four , said that his company had " been placed in the invidious position of having to choose between breaking the law and putting individual lives in danger " . |
| 21 | On completion of this operation , the assembly was lifted by overhead crane and placed in the inverted position of carriers . |
| 22 | The patient would have to have an almost normal trunk , without any associated reactions or increased spasticity as he was placed in the prone position on the plinth . |
| 23 | If rate switches are in use , they should be set in the low position on the cyclic controls , since difficulties are usually pilot-induced ( unintentionally ) and it helps to make the model as docile as possible . |
| 24 | The US abortion debate , long entrenched in the absolute positions of the opposing activist camps , is moving toward the more moderate that reflect the broad plains of US public opinion . |
| 25 | They are mosaics , a cluster of separate components , each with its own lens of crystalline calcite orientated in the precise position in which it transmits light most efficiently . |
| 26 | They had , however , been fixed in the wrong position , officials said , and it was this that caused one of the pipes to rupture through metal fatigue . |
| 27 | If locations with the same addresses as the record keys are available , then each record is stored in the appropriate position , and a record can be retrieved by the use of the relationship : |
| 28 | It was stuffy but bearable and , despite his length , large enough , provided he remained crouched in the foetal position ; which meant he nearly gagged from the smell of almonds . |
| 29 | More powerful bulbs were put in the other positions . |
| 30 | No child should be put in the powerful position of having to tell tales on another child . |