Example sentences of "position in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colour you are assigned arises from your position in the draw , but this may change from round to round , so do n't go to the same position as you went to previously . |
| 2 | In fact it could be said that our position in the rankings is declining in direct proportion to the increase in the money spent . |
| 3 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |
| 4 | Consequently , after the Asian Open — which Hendry won — his No. 1 position in the world was taken over briefly by the 20-year-old Scot . |
| 5 | Unilever , in addition to gaining a strong position in the large French cheese market , sees potential for the international development of the Boursin brand name . |
| 6 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 7 | Amersham has a strong position in the European market for radiopharmaceuticals and sees the acquisition of a complementary manufacturing base in North America as improving its chances of supplying the global market for such products . |
| 8 | During its six-year life the Metrobus has established a significant position in the UK double-decker market , capturing about 30 per cent of all sales in each year between 1983 and 1986 and earning the reputation of a mobile road block among motorists in the congested capital since a driver-only policy was introduced by London Transport . |
| 9 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |
| 10 | At the same same they are using propaganda and terror to boost their position in the countryside . |
| 11 | HAWKER SIDDELEY yesterday strengthened its position in the European electric motors business by agreeing to purchase GEC Alsthom 's electromotors division in a deal worth between £35m and £40m . |
| 12 | Dr Alan Watkins , Hawker Siddeley 's chief executive , said the deal with GEC Alsthom would re-inforce its position in the fiercely competitive UK market and enable it to achieve greater exports than the two companies had separately . |
| 13 | ENGLAND earned a seeding position in the quarter-finals of the World Team Championships here with a 3-0 victory over Egypt yesterday . |
| 14 | The effervescent Scot should consolidate third position in the table by booting home Gallant Hope ( 3.0 ) and Somethingdifferent ( 3.35 ) . |
| 15 | management of such firms nearly always under-estimate the costs and lead times involved in establishing a market position in the USA |
| 16 | When the ‘ official ’ Famine struck the Volga , the Soviet press made no mention of the position in the Ukraine . |
| 17 | No major concessions were made ; in particular , no ground was given to the Liberal demand for proportional representation to give minor parties a more enhanced position in the country . |
| 18 | The electoral and sociological omens favoured the Conservatives still , with their entrenched position in the prosperous and populous southern half of Britain . |
| 19 | Under the chairmanship of Juan Trippe PAA had rapidly increased its position in the 1930s , enjoying a monopoly on US flights across the Pacific to Japan and China , into Latin America , and over to Britain . |
| 20 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 21 | In this chapter I shall write only about women in the last group and their position in the British labour market since very little has been written about them . |
| 22 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 23 | Their position in the brain is important because : |
| 24 | The £7.5m 100-bedroom project , designed by Kent-based architects Ratcliffe Stott Associates , will be one of Ghana 's premier hotels located in a prime seafront position in the capital , Accra . |
| 25 | Tricon strongly advises the Cassons to realign the hotel 's position in the marketplace to take advantage of currently untapped business . |
| 26 | Philip and Lesley Casson were strongly advised to realign the hotel 's position in the marketplace |
| 27 | Cool customer This he will do from the scrum-half position in the now customary French fashion while the nominal scrum-half , Berbizier , froze the ball in from touch . |
| 28 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 29 | To simply sit on this cushion at the BBC day after day and flip on anything they thought was moving — well , I thought that was the most sacred and powerful position in the universe . |
| 30 | My first choice of tide for this book was The Offshore Island because it reflects a return to our seventeenth-century political and military status , and our true position in the world today . |