Example sentences of "find themselves on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades .
2 Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action .
3 Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain .
4 Willpower often works — although it did not for Bailey McMahon , who found themselves on the receiving end of action by the Irish authorities .
5 Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " .
6 The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . )
7 Moreover , at this time , the boundary between the two parts of Britain was drawn southwards so that formerly prosperous parts of the Midlands , particularly the West Midlands conurbation , found themselves on the wrong side of the line for the first time ( Townsend , 1983 ; Green , 1986 ) .
8 One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law .
9 Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish .
10 France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’
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