Example sentences of "he be [adv] [prep] [art] position " in BNC.

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1 He is not in a position to deal effectively with the fast , short delivery bowled at his body .
2 Since a request for a new tenancy must specify a commencement date for the new tenancy not more than twelve months after the service of the notice , this means that at the date when the tenant must serve the break notice he is not in a position to serve a request for a new tenancy .
3 Gandalf tells him that since he is not in a position to pass judgement on everyone he should not pass it on one person .
4 What a pity he is n't in the position that I 'm in , eh ? ’
5 If , as is sometimes the case , he is actually in a position to influence the course of events , how should he then act ?
6 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food whether he is now in a position to reveal the latest survey regarding dioxin levels in milk in the Bolsover area ; and if he will make a statement .
7 Perhaps he is now in a position to be more precise .
8 So he is now in a position he can either take them to court or he 's forgetting it .
9 The company says he is now in the position of a passive investor , owning about 16% of the stock .
10 It is obviously fundamentally different in this respect , that , whereas before , he was entitled to the protection of the Act until successful proceedings were taken , he is now in the position that proceedings have been taken and that an order for possession has been made .
11 However an agent often holds no money or property for his principal unlike a trustee ; if he does receive money from or for his principal he is merely in a position of debtor to his principal in respect of it and if he receives goods he may hold them as bailee only ( see Lister v Stubbs [ 1890 ] 45 Ch 1 ) .
12 ‘ Well , A , he 's not in a position to give it to me , and B , I would n't stoop to that sort of thing . ’
13 He , he 's , he 's not in a position to say whether he knows or not .
14 He 's almost in a position to blow up the feed lines . ’
15 As the new Chancellor , he was already in a position of considerable influence .
16 Yes but my Lord d dealing also with the suggestion by the defendants that it would have been improper to advise him to serve completion notice when he was n't in a position to complete and the solicitor deals with the the expert deals also with that position as to what is the practice of a solicitor in that situation if there 's a potential er problem for that particular solicitor to what the advice should be as to how the client should deal with the that .
17 The only creature who could explain what had happened was Devon Loch , and he was not in a position to give interviews .
18 I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn .
19 The tutor-organiser was also best-placed to counsel WEA students considering full-time higher education on adult state scholarships ( of which there were two in Northamptonshire at the time ) ; he was also in a position to attend daytime meetings of local bodies , on behalf of the WEA .
20 He was thus in a position to observe closely not only the political reactions in Paris but also the establishment of the new Court .
21 And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been .
22 He was certainly in a position to know .
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