Example sentences of "a position [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 2 | Should it be completed before the next election , the Labour Government will be in a position to examine the full costs of cancellation . |
| 3 | The broader the array of surviving sources the more likely future historians will be in a position to see the late twentieth century as the rich and diverse world that it really was . |
| 4 | The net result of this state of affairs is that there exist citadels of private economic power ( Unger , 1983 ) — that is , relatively small groups of people who are in a position to control the basic terms of collective prosperity by making crucial decisions about investment and deployment of capital . |
| 5 | Through such relations the bureaucracy was , for Hegel , in a position to transcend the particularistic wills and interests of society . |
| 6 | The CLR is not in a position to replace the Tory Government . |
| 7 | I was in a position to give the poor fellow employment and accommodation . |
| 8 | Why should the Leader of the House be in a position to give the wrong information to the House , given that he will almost certainly be making another business statement this week ? |
| 9 | ( Room 413 , Shrubhill House ) , we will be in a position to agree the final copy ready for print . |
| 10 | Within society the agencies of law and order , and those in a position to sustain the hegemonic ideology , constitute ‘ controllers ’ . |
| 11 | They " are also in a position to explain the new methods and to communicate their virtues . |
| 12 | On the other hand , an arbitrary rule of substitution whereby two expressions are decreed to be interchangeable for each other within a given context , reveals nothing about the " sameness of meaning " unless we are in a position to explain the general rule governing such substitutions , which would ensure that the truth-value of the propositions in which such substitutions are carried out remains always and necessarily unaltered . |
| 13 | HAD anyone suggested back in December that Scotland would be in a position to win the Triple Crown by the last match of 1993 , just after the A XV had played Italy , they would probably have been led quietly away for a mental examination . |
| 14 | ( iii ) The addition of non-standard do-it-yourself devices can obviously provide a wide range of spectacular additional facilities , but ( except in the unlikely event of the program designers and programmers being in a position to market the additional hardware device with the program ) the use of such devices is impractical for any program intended for use in a range of establishments . |
| 15 | The ob the obvious answer to that would be we 'd not be in a position to make the proper recommendation in favour of I I suspect . |
| 16 | 1.3 These emphatic results have given the trade union a clear mandate to pursue a better settlement and we are therefore not in a position to accept the current offer . |
| 17 | On completion of this second GIMMS job we are in a position to begin the final task , that of producing maps based on the digitized map of the 42 countries of Africa , using one or other of the two statistical variables entered into the file PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT . |
| 18 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of the great wad of paper work which MPs get handed at the end of the Budget statement was the revelation tucked away that , even on Norman Lamont 's most optimistic financial forecast , the UK would not be in a position to meet the European Economic convergence criteria laid down in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 20 | But by the end of this series you should be in a position to find the right horse at a fair price — and that 's what every horse buyer should be aiming for . . |
| 21 | We are now in a position to find the fair price of the futures contracts trading on LIFFE . |
| 22 | We are now in a position to calculate the radial path length to the surface labelled by r : for the case when K is positive . |
| 23 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 24 | They will then be in a position to identify the additional resources that are needed for Africa , and to discuss how these should be created . |