Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in [art] [adj] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 2 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 3 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 4 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 5 | We find ourselves in an impossible position . |
| 6 | After the The Lancaster House agreement , Mike had found himself in a similar position to the rest of the Rhodesian Army — overqualified , over-trained , and unemployed . |
| 7 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 8 | Charles also found himself in a difficult position . |
| 9 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 10 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 11 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 12 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 13 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 14 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |
| 15 | It gives fine views of the worried faces to your left and is itself in a splendid position . |
| 16 | The defense Department , a major user of At and T services , found itself in a new position yet still charged with statutory requirements regarding national security , emergency preparedness and defence of national interests . |
| 17 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |
| 18 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 19 | The memorandum at the front of the Bill refers to ministerial orders in England and Wales , but schedule 4 shows that the whole of the Light Railways Acts 1896 and 1912 are to be repealed ; so Scotland will find itself in an invidious position . |
| 20 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 21 | Where Macbeth had been concealed or opaque to Duncan , and was thus in a superior position , manipulating him by pretence , we now see Lady Macbeth putting herself in the dominant position , planning to manipulate her husband : Macbeth is now transparent to her , and she to us . |
| 22 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 23 | ‘ You see , I find myself in a similar position . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 25 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 26 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 27 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 28 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 29 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 30 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |