Example sentences of "[adj] position [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore said : ‘ If people get into wrong positions inadvertently , there will be such a desperate desire to get out of them because they need the ball , I think it could increase violence . ’ |
| 2 | After the fall of Calais , when war ceased for some years , the king had to persuade the commons that direct taxes should continue in order to finance the defence of English positions abroad , notably Calais itself , and to maintain English forces in a state of readiness in case the enemy broke the truce and resumed the war . |
| 3 | ‘ And we 're consolidating along prepared positions here . ’ |
| 4 | Up until now the naval salvoes are landing in the German positions somewhere in front of No. 6 Commando , at the other end of the village . |
| 5 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 6 | This is an important point to make , since many theoretical positions both before and after the work of Grice have assumed that omniscience in analysis is a possible option , and analyses are produced that claim to speak for the general reader while also using biographical information on the author from an asserted privileged position ( much of the methodology and work of F.R. Leavis ( e.g. 1936 , 1967 ) and his followers is characterised by this approach ) . |
| 7 | Problems in pronouncing the sounds of a new language generally fall into the following categories : a. unfamiliar sounds b. familiar sounds in unfamiliar positions c. familiar sounds in unfamiliar combinations d. sounds which are similar to your own but not identical e. pairs of familiar sounds which contrast in the new language but not in your own f. familiar phonemes but with a different set of variants , or familiar variants in unfamiliar environments g. different transition and juncture features between sounds h. different morphophonemic changes when two sounds come together at morpheme or word boundaries . |
| 8 | In addition , it throws up a syntactic-semantic distinction which is important in its own right and which will make its presence felt in the other adjectival positions also . |
| 9 | However , as is often the case in wartime , women have stepped into some positions previously held by men . |
| 10 | Government troops seem to have abandoned some positions quickly , while the KPNLF has avoided key garrisons . |
| 11 | The English-language feature film came of age in the 1930s first because of its singularity as a piece of entertainment and then because it prompted responses which were important in defining cultural positions generally . |
| 12 | These are not demanding plants , preferring a light position out of scorching sunlight . |
| 13 | Yet their cultural position both for contemporaries and subsequent historians was complex and again is directly relevant to any understanding of the movies . |
| 14 | It is worth making an important demand early on in the negotiations and sticking close to this position thus making the other party have to work hard to squeeze concessions out of you . |
| 15 | It 'll be years before you 're in this position again , so do n't give it up until you 're absolutely certain you 've found the place you want . |
| 16 | Many women in this position today , sharing childcare and social support with other women , meeting in mother and toddler groups , in each other 's houses , at the school gates , at the shops , are engaged in a kind of separatism . |
| 17 | They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view . |
| 18 | From the beginning and maintained this position rigorously to the end despite very heavy pressures . |
| 19 | Now , however , they are finding this position increasingly difficult to maintain . |
| 20 | Fig12 Your feet should be adjusted to this position immediately before you set off . |
| 21 | I have argued against this position elsewhere ( Widdowson 1979 , 1984a ) . |
| 22 | Peace with France in 1713 , the accession of George I in the following year , and the easy suppression of a revolt in Scotland of the Jacobites ( the partisans of the exiled Stuarts ) in 1715 , changed this position completely . |
| 23 | He does , however , modify this position slightly in his later writings as we shall see shortly . |
| 24 | Studies of actual usage seem to show that items placed in this position really do correlate with discourse topic , or what the participants are talking " about " , although not always in simple ways ( Duranti & Ochs , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns . |
| 26 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 27 | One branch of the cartilaginous fish has adopted this position more or less permanently , abandoning the energy-consuming labour of perpetually beating their tail to maintain themselves in mid-water . |
| 28 | Maybe just a few more seconds and they would have fired him and he would n't be in this position now . |
| 29 | We are not plucking this position out of the air , it 's already there . |
| 30 | But it is no disrespect to enquire into the possibility that some teachers may , through no fault of their own , have reached this position prematurely , and that other , more positive options still remain open . |