Example sentences of "in a position [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are n't in a position to harass you as the British on their home ground would be . |
| 2 | It is a common good defined by those who have been in a position to define it as such ( through their access to the processes that determine the nature of legal rules ) . |
| 3 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |
| 4 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 5 | ‘ My human sympathies ’ , said Lord Diplock , ‘ are with Mr Cheall , but I am not in a position to indulge them ; for I am left in no doubt that upon all the points that have been so ingeniously argued , the law is against him . ’ |
| 6 | And in a year or two perhaps I might be in a position to take you up on it . " |
| 7 | Of course I was not in a position to contradict her . ’ |
| 8 | True , Alfred was not now in a position to contradict her , but why should she lie ? |
| 9 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 10 | Mugabe and ( Minister of Foreign Affairs Nathan ) Shamuyarira are for it and they are in a position to effect it . ’ |
| 11 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 12 | When we have resolved the matter we shall be in a position to give them all the reassurance they can ask . |
| 13 | In this regard , the teacher will know the pupils who need more help , and , as in all classes , will be in a position to give them any extra help needed in order to achieve the learning outcomes . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , A , he 's not in a position to give it to me , and B , I would n't stoop to that sort of thing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But the Secretary of State is not in a position to give it the go-ahead at the moment and the companies involved will be worried . |
| 16 | Your supplier should be in a position to give you information on the bigger ones . |
| 17 | Our intended publication of a Lothian Rail Development Strategy has slipped somewhat , and I am not in a position to give you an indication of likely completion dates . |
| 18 | The court will then be in a position to enable it to form its own opinion as to the plaintiff 's chances of success . |
| 19 | According to the theory , one is never in a position to compare them . |
| 20 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 21 | The record needs to be put straight on certain issues , and women animators are in a position to do it powerfully and poignantly . |
| 22 | But we really need a candidate and there is n't anybody erm obvious who 's in a position to do it unfortunately . |
| 23 | Yes , every as a central record so that you are in a position to say we need another researcher . |
| 24 | If you have enough living movement in your writing , if your nouns support each sentence and your verbs fly like flung ropes , or like shaking cobwebs , between them , then you are in a position to decorate it with adjectives and adverbs — but not until . |
| 25 | They were not in a position to remind them that " an Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of the Lord " ( Deut. 23.4 ) — if it is true that the Tobiads were Ammonites . |
| 26 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 27 | In ( 26 ) , the main verb manage denotes what led up to the realization of the infinitive or , better , what put the support in a position to realize it . |
| 28 | His father , a soldier stationed in Siena , chose to commit suicide before his son was born , not being in a position to acknowledge him . |
| 29 | He sensed she was in a position to tell him . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , technically speaking , ’ the phone was back at Jack Murphy 's ear , ‘ you are no longer in a position to provide him with employment . |