Example sentences of "hold [adj] position [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | persuading legislators is essential to the policy-making process but , in addition , non-elected officials holding pivotal positions in the bureaucracy must also be convinced of the justification of the president 's proposals . |
| 2 | Now back in Bucharest he finds the people who stifled his union at birth are still holding important positions in the film industry under the umbrella of the National Salvation Front . |
| 3 | Another recorded that some held high positions in the Ministry of War : their arrest , the report added , would be ‘ a political embarrassment ’ . |
| 4 | But it is not so generally known and acknowledged that some of them in their day held high positions in the scientific world , nor has sufficient commendation been bestowed upon the whole body for their unselfish zeal in the promotion and encouragement of the study of Natural History , and especially Botany , as an essential element of medical education . |
| 5 | He described himself as ‘ a young man of pure British descent , some of whose forefathers have held high positions in the British army . |
| 6 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 7 | He held various positions at the Ordnance Office between 1696 and 1708 . |
| 8 | Ostwald in Germany and Bancroft in the United States , who held dominant positions in the world of physical chemistry , especially as editors of the principal journals , were influential in promoting such ideas . |
| 9 | Two others , Mr Constantin Pirvulescu and Mr Gheorghe Apostol , both held senior positions in the party during the Ceausescu era , which dates from the mid-Sixties . |
| 10 | were best achieved by organisations that held secure positions inside the enterprise , and unlike their European counterparts the unions in North America insisted on establishing their presence in the plant itself and not merely outside it . |