Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] position " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past did people really deny support to relatives who were in no position to reciprocate , or at least who seemed unlikely to be able to do so ? |
| 2 | The membership was to include appropriate volunteers who had knowledge of ‘ education and of other conditions affecting young persons ’ , and who were in a position to advise the exchanges . |
| 3 | that the defendant took care to inform himself , from others who were in a position to provide the information , as to whether the deposit would constitute an offence and had no reason to suppose that the information given to him was false or misleading ; |
| 4 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 5 | Being concerned with gentlemen or noble persons , in other words those within the society who were in a position to act , Spenser directs his poem to make them aware both of dangers and responsibilities . |
| 6 | Quantitative limits were also thought to restrict competition as they hampered efficient banks who were in a position to create new deposits . |
| 7 | ‘ Life is going to be stark , elemental , brutal , filthy and miserable ’ for the survivors , admitted Mr Petersen , who was in a position to know . |
| 8 | The relevant passage in the judgment indicated that where a rape was committed by a person who was in a position of trust towards the victim , the starting point for consideration of the appropriate sentence should be eight years . |
| 9 | There were cited to your Lordships a number of cases involving the abstraction of moneys from a limited company by a person who was in a position to give the consent of the company to the abstraction . |
| 10 | Yet , it was asked , was it possible to exclude him by treaty , so manifestly an arrangement between the king of England and the Burgundians ( the dauphin 's political rivals ) , and then imposed upon a sick king who was in no position to resist ? |