Example sentences of "position [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second weakness in the Government 's position is that in an important respect it is ambiguous . |
| 2 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the NHS chief executive , told the Guardian yesterday that the Government 's negotiating position is that it wants to split the service so crews with medical skills can earn extra money and non-emergency services can be contracted out . |
| 3 | Mr Duncan Nichol , the NHS chief executive , told the Guardian that the Government 's negotiating position is that it wants to split the service so crews with medical skills can earn extra money and non-emergency services can be contracted out . |
| 4 | ‘ My position is that an embryo should only be created for insertion into a specified woman and should receive the maximum protection from the moment of its creation and no non-therapeutic research should be allowed , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government . |
| 6 | A break with this doctrine was made by the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , now replaced by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , as amended in 1984 , and the present position is that the sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 7 | My own position is that the first finding of the judge , that April Ashley was a male , was in the light of available information unfortunate and unnecessarily conservative . |
| 8 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
| 9 | The present position is that the local education authorities are accountable to the local electorate for the condition of the education service in their area but , some would say , are effectively denied the powers necessary to deal with those responsibilities . |
| 10 | The position is that a trust has been set up in favour of the family . |
| 11 | Yeldall 's position is that ‘ The best means of achieving true freedom from dependency is rehabilitation through discipleship to Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 12 | The present position is that 26 bishops may sit . |
| 13 | Where , as is usually the case , an instrument is laid subject to negative resolution , the position is that it will obtain or , more commonly , retain the force of law unless , within the stipulated time , the House rejects it . |
| 14 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 15 | But the irony of the current position is that the Conservatives have all the same problems — but with a policy mix that will make them worse ! |
| 16 | The strict position is that the company secretary or the liquidator ( see s 108 , TMA 1970 ) should sign the claim . |
| 17 | It read : The position is that an investigation file relating to the occurrence referred to in your letter has been submitted by the Chief Constable to the Director of public prosecutions . |
| 18 | ‘ I think Bowe 's position is that he does not want to fight me because he thinks he 'll get beaten . |
| 19 | The stronger , less compromising , position is that it is enough to have a problem , possibly due to lack of data or thrown up by another 's findings , and plausible ways of solving it . |
| 20 | ( Stevenson 1975 ) The position is that the members of this association view with deep dismay the continuing spread in area and operations relating to criminal litigation of all London neighbourhood law centres … |
| 21 | The reductionist position is that , within a system spared down to minimal size , prisons can sometimes , at least for a while , be made reasonably decent places . |
| 22 | Devlin has , however , been defended against such a charge by several commentators , and one of these , Basil Mitchell , argues that it would be fairer to suggest that Devlin 's position is that there are no types of immorality which are not in some way capable of threatening society , and which could therefore be considered to be ‘ outside ’ the scope of the law : |
| 23 | The Canadian position is that the board of directors , provided it is acting in what it considers to be the best interests of the company , must have the discretion to take defensive measures against an imminent take-over . |
| 24 | In Beyond the Pleasure Principle the position is that the pleasure principle may be serving the death instincts , which would imply that the Nirvana principle is basic to mental functioning alongside the reality principle . |
| 25 | But if Trible 's position is that she is a literary critic , pursuing rhetorical criticism without commitment to the text , then it must be said that the impression she gives is often very different . |
| 26 | If one 's position is that one is a literary critic , there can be no reason to wrestle with the text that one may appropriate it . |
| 27 | A trinitarian position is that God is one ( it is monotheistic ) , and that that one God exists in three ways , as Father , as Son and as Spirit . |
| 28 | The current position is that the language of the Convention suggests one conclusion , while the intentions of the parties another ; it is also possible that those intentions changed after the negotiations precisely because of the changed stance of the United States . |
| 29 | Moderator the convenor in his introduction and in the deliverance says that the church 's position is that it offers baptism to parents who are not er who , who is seeking to explain the church 's position to parents who are not communicant members or intending members of the church . |
| 30 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |