Example sentences of "position is [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The true position is not that the directors must take account of the interests of future shareholders , but rather that they have a discretion concerning the time-scale over which existing members may be benefited . |
| 2 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 3 | The correct position is thus that the corporate entity is a vehicle for benefiting the interests of a specified group or groups . |
| 4 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 5 | Stone & Dobinson 's test of " obvious risk to health or welfare " would broaden manslaughter perhaps unacceptably , and the position is now that accepted by the Privy Council and Court of Appeal . |