Example sentences of "in a [adj] position at " in BNC.

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1 A MOTORIST , who needed a stick to help him walk , left his car parked in a dangerous position at Alton High Street .
2 If you have planned and carried out your strategy of study over the earlier laps , like the 5000-metre runner , you should be on the inside lane and in a good position at the bell for the last lap .
3 The team felt that , despite the scoreline , they were in a good position at this point but they had reckoned without the depth and strength of the Borders batting .
4 He is in a unique position at this moment .
5 PACEMAN Merv Hughes blasted away the West Indies top order to put Australia in a commanding position at stumps on the second day of the second Test in Melbourne .
6 Any view which gives speech precedence over writing must be basing its preference on this sort of hierarchical model , which implicitly places ideas in a commanding position at the top , and writing as a degraded form of representation at the bottom .
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