Example sentences of "be [prep] the same position as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students working alone with a video player are in the same position as a teacher using the machine in the classroom — they are in control of the machine and can exploit that fact in similar ways . |
| 2 | Yes and the county are in the same position as everybody else in not having been able to check it . |
| 3 | I 'm in the same position as she is and share exactly the same sentiments . |
| 4 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 5 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 6 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 7 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 8 | Fitting a new sink may seem a somewhat daunting task but it need n't be , provided the new sink is going to be in the same position as the old one . |
| 9 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 10 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |
| 11 | In many ways , he is in the same position as a husband who finds that his wife is infertile . |
| 12 | The contractor chooses one of the three who immediately becomes his responsibility and is in the same position as a domestic subcontractor . |
| 13 | It strikes me that the whole phenomenon is in the same position as the ecology movement in the early Eighties , when it was associated with people with beards and woolly jumpers who drank Real Ale . |
| 14 | The problem is this : if the accused 's intention is to rape and he is in the same position as in Brown with the top half of his body in the building , is his entry therein effective for the purposes of the rape form of burglary ? |
| 15 | But the pope was in the same position as everyone else in having no clear procedure for reaching a decision . |