Example sentences of "position from that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This distinction will have some importance when we consider the grounds on which the attitudinist distinguishes his position from that of ethical subjectivism . |
| 2 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 3 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 4 | The fact that the state is the guarantor of these undertakings puts them in a totally different trading position from that of their genuinely independent British counterparts . |
| 5 | The power enjoyed in every sense by , for instance , the state-owned Electricité de France puts it into a completely different position from that of the British National Power or of Powergen . |
| 6 | This distinguishes the position from that in Expenses where it was more difficult for isolated protesting States to remain aloof from the actions of the Organisation . |