Example sentences of "position to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 'm not in a position to be choosy , but I ca n't cope with the idea of living there — it 's just beyond |
| 2 | You must turn until your back is nearly towards the opponent , which is not a healthy position to be in . |
| 3 | Women 's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce . |
| 4 | The dominant position these companies occupied in the economy was sufficient for their position to be questioned . |
| 5 | Living in both Manchester and Leeds , I am in the position to be able to put a few things straight . |
| 6 | I put myself in a position to be able to make these works . ’ |
| 7 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 8 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 9 | Quite a good position to be in . |
| 10 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 11 | Tiphook ends up with a lot of goodwill on the balance sheet , which can be a risky position to be in , but Montague is skilled at that sort of move . ’ |
| 12 | By September 1938 it was clear that Carl Burckhardt , the Swiss League of Nations High Commissioner , was not prepared to do anything to prevent the drive to Nazify the city , and that he saw his position to be that of ‘ observer ’ or , at most , intermediary . |
| 13 | Library co-operatives rarely require much financial outlay but a minimum resource required is some staff time , and it seems likely that authorities with designated training officers ( or teams ) , are going to be in a much stronger position to be able to utilize the considerable potential possibilities of library co-operatives . |
| 14 | These include the specialist locating devices that enable the ferret 's progress underground to be monitored and its exact position to be discovered . |
| 15 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I wo n't deny that at times it 's been a murderously pressurised position to be in , ’ Guy admits , ‘ and it 's been very difficult for the other group members . |
| 17 | I 'm not criticising guitar players — after all , I 'm one myself and not in a position to be judgmental . |
| 18 | Some Christians do meet in small groups and George is in a position to be a contact person between them . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're in no position to be giving me lectures . ’ |
| 20 | Where the time is crucial to the offence the prosecution should be in a position to be able to prove the actual times in that locality from observations , should they be so required . |
| 21 | Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers . |
| 22 | ‘ If you put yourself in the position to be fashionable , then six months later everyone 's going to take the piss out of you . |
| 23 | Never again in Anselm 's lifetime was the papal position to be stated so clearly and uncompromisingly . |
| 24 | By combining these two exercises , teachers are in a much better position to be able to say to the demanders , whether parents , government or somewhere in between : ‘ Given the resources of time , material , support and expertise , we are able to do A , B and C or C , D and E , but not A , B and E , let alone all five . |
| 25 | A large investment conglomerate replying to the survey suggested that the main advantage of employing headhunters occurred ‘ when the position to be filled is sensitive internally and externally ’ . |
| 26 | At BASW 's recent AGM , its chairman Graham Thompson said it would be scandalously wasteful for the legal position to be clarified through judicial review . |
| 27 | This is a dangerous position to be in . |
| 28 | Goldman itself expects its relatively negative position to be short-lived . |
| 29 | Satellite navigation equipment enables the boat 's position to be established with great accuracy anywhere on the surface of the globe . |
| 30 | It was a terrible position to be in . |