Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] no position " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 2 | As for the white kids on the estate , they experience the immediate effects — unemployment , bad housing , but they 're in no position to understand or tackle the actual underlying causes . |
| 3 | And you remember that they 're in no position to dictate because they 're there for you and me . |
| 4 | Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it . |
| 5 | Even if the authorities had wanted to rule the countryside with a rod of iron they were in no position to do so . |
| 6 | Other Whigs had gone into exile , as too had some Nonconformists ; those who remained in England were either in jail or under such close government surveillance that they were in no position to offer a serious challenge to the new King . |
| 7 | We informed the committee that regardless to the fact that they were trustees , they were in no position to challenge Mr Maxwell and under those conditions then they felt that the the law should be changed that the Trust Law was n't sufficient to er look after pensions , because they felt that in certain circumstances in fact gave evidence to the committee , various people gave evidence along those lines , that they were almost powerless against Mr Maxwell and that 's . |