Example sentences of "a situation the " in BNC.

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1 In such a situation the worker is at the mercy of the capitalist and is therefore exploited .
2 When he started at Marlborough 20 years ago , the art department was almost non-existent , a situation the then headmaster , John Dancy , devoutly wished to reverse .
3 In such a situation the male can take his frustrations out on his mate , as digging is part of the natural behaviour of the fish , and it makes them feel more secure .
4 At that time about 40 per cent of production workers in assembly were non-Swedish , a situation the company found unattractive because of the costs of recruitment , training , and supervision .
5 But since then the gap between them and the banks has narrowed a situation the building societies favour
6 These negative trends were becoming more common as people ‘ looked towards money ’ rather than socialist moral values , a situation the party leaders regretted but seemed unable to control .
7 In the complexities of such a situation the International Rugby Board obviously should not rely on SARB and SARU to achieve unity before they are to announce who will host the Rugby World Cup in 1995 .
8 In such a situation the future for integration looked bleak .
9 In such a situation the possibility exists for attributions of meaning to be made to the deeds of members of the microsociety which bear little resemblance to the meanings attributed by the members themselves .
10 In such a situation the skilled care of social workers is crucial to ensuring that an unwanted by-product of success for some children is not the total destruction of self-esteem for others .
11 In such a situation the initiative lay with the attacker .
12 In such a situation the flow of spoken words does not need to be interrupted by information about who is speaking .
13 In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form .
14 But when organizations grow to a level where it is impossible for all the members to know each other , where the division of work between individuals and groups becomes more strict , where communications are restricted by physical and administrative distances and boundaries — in such a situation the need for an idea-handling system arises even in an organization where the cultural and climate conditions support creativity and innovation .
15 It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood .
16 In such a situation the true owner may have been divested of his claim against the wrongdoer under section 8(2) ( d ) but if not , he might still be entitled to sue by virtue of his title .
17 In such a situation the teacher can not choose when to use the programme , and unless it is a rebroadcast , he will only have a very general idea of what the programme will be about or what its language content will be ( vocabulary , grammar , structures , level of difficulty , appropriateness , etc ) .
18 This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him .
19 In such a situation the demand for the options would rise and , given the restrictions on the creation of option contracts , the price would rise until the profit opportunity disappeared .
20 I mean to begin with then obviously the female livelihood they depend on that primal investment it 's , it 's a situation the way that that it 's divided up
21 In such a situation the purchaser will normally be willing to take over the vendor 's liabilities up to a specified maximum or as specifically itemised in completion accounts .
22 In such a situation the vendor is left without the means to discharge the creditors and pursue the debtors .
23 In such a situation the agreement should allow for the introduction of new investors with a view to ensuring that the warranties and undertakings given , and restrictions imposed , for the benefit of the initial investor apply also for the benefit of the new investors .
24 It 's a situation the authorities ca n't begin to cope with .
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