Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] position [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was to demonstrate the solidarity of the NATO alliance with a view to ensuring that negotiations with the Eastern bloc would be from a position of strength . |
| 2 | So that Dunbar would be in no position to hand it over to the enemy . |
| 3 | ( 5 ) ( b ) states : ‘ While the scrummage is taking place , players in each front row must have their weight firmly on at least one foot and be in a position for an effective forward shove . |
| 4 | I 'd say , whenever possible , you should always try to be in a position of strength . ’ |
| 5 | These considerations explain why to say of someone that he is entitled to have authority means that he should be in a position of real power and then he will have legitimate authority . |
| 6 | The authors see the requirement for the nurse to re-register every three years ( periodic licensing ) , as an important step forward in ensuring ‘ that all patients receive the highest level of care and that the qualified nurse can really be seen to be in a position of accountability ’ . |
| 7 | Awareness that others often younger and less experienced will be in a position of authority at work . |
| 8 | If the Labour Party are going to be in a position of ‘ determining ’ the future then I believe they must put the Westminster culture in order and so spread the ownership of that future . |
| 9 | The officer is perceived to be in a position of authority ; the suspect may be intimidated or undermined . |
| 10 | Richard Ledes was considered to be in a position of trust and was recommended as a fit person to be consulted in any investigation to be made by Scrope . |
| 11 | You will be in a position of trust , both of you . |
| 12 | If the answer is no , and here this is linked to the question of should the policy include specific guidance for the location of the settlement , and by specific guidance , it implies , should it be allocated to a particular district , then in order to do that , the panel feel that we would have to be in a position of having sufficient information to make an objective and logical decision on that . |
| 13 | Erm , we , we , we really er , like to be in a position of control in any of the acquisitions er , that we make er , where we are associates rather than , than having a hundred percent or a least erm , over fifty . |
| 14 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 15 | A couple , okay , after the six months when it stops , presumably we 're going to be in a position of , on State Benefits . |
| 16 | cos the client might be in a position of saying , well , after six months , I 'm down to half salary , so you might have sold this plan , to pick up the other half , |
| 17 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |
| 18 | But do you envisage the employers should be in a position of the minority on the scheme ? |
| 19 | is preceded by silence and is followed by silence , and so and are said to be in a position of external open juncture . |
| 20 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 21 | But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly . |
| 22 | Where the time is crucial to the offence the prosecution should be in a position to be able to prove the actual times in that locality from observations , should they be so required . |
| 23 | Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers . |
| 24 | This additional property , Minsky believes , could have a functional or evolutionary explanation , of the sort suggested for the property of modularity itself by Simon , in that the ‘ conscious ’ supreme organizing module would ipso facto be in a position to ‘ debug ’ or repair the connections of the lower modules amongst themselves or to itself . |
| 25 | If the state is to prevent the class struggle from destroying an existing set of structures it must be in a position to further class interests which are not too damaging to the formation as a whole , and to prevent classes from realising interests which would have gravely divisive consequences . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister ensured at Maastricht that the British proposals on this matter were passed : first , all countries committed themselves to improving animal welfare , which was a major step forward never agreed between those countries before ; and , secondly , in future , the European Court of Justice will be in a position to fine countries that fail to keep their obligations under Community rules . |
| 27 | You will then be in a position to either exit from the option and re-enter the data ( by pressing RETURN ) or , alternatively , you may press BACKSPACE to access the input data fields again and alter the data . |
| 28 | So hopefully by the erm , I should be in a position by the next Council meeting , to report that we should be in a position to be up and running on the seventeenth of January . |
| 29 | Presumably we would only be in a position to be considering an investigator if both , we had a erm a greater number of complaints from around the Commission coming into York , and i and further members of staff were to leave . |
| 30 | As the moratorium on takeovers within the industry ceases at the end of 1993 the combined group will be in a position to be a predator and former hunter Manchester-based Granada could turn into the hunted . |