Example sentences of "to find itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything . |
| 2 | Yet this is the position in which Fleet/Norstar Financial , as Industrial National has become , is about to find itself . |
| 3 | A galvanized trade union movement facing the problems of high unemployment and constant wage reductions was bound to find itself in conflict with both employers and government in the inter-year years . |
| 4 | A galvanized trade union movement facing the problems of high unemployment and constant wage reductions was bound to find itself in conflict with both employers and government in the inter-war years . |
| 5 | As time goes by it is likely to find itself under increasing pressure , for the glossy men are now moving into the petrology field too . |
| 6 | This may not be important for a well-fed family pet , but if ever such a cat were to find itself lost or homeless it would rapidly die of starvation . |
| 7 | Eh ? seemed just as unlikely to find itself transported to America . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 9 | The first generation to find itself in the vanguard after the second world war mistrusted opera , felt its connections with the old order too oppressive . |
| 10 | How is it possible , in a democracy , for a committee of the House of Commons ( the elected representatives of the people ) to find itself prevented from interviewing civil servants when it wishes to do so , or faced with witnesses who refuse to answer questions that are put to them , as was the case when the Commons Select Committee on Defence attempted to investigate the Westland affair in 1986 ? |
| 11 | After the British general election of 1987 the Alliance would no doubt have been gratified to find itself under-represented to a degree no greater than that . |
| 12 | Hence if the Roundabout Motel were to find itself traversed by the proposed M15 bypassing Seachester , it may be compulsorily purchased after the holding of the requisite public inquiry and the approval of the M15 route . |
| 13 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 14 | It is thus eminently possible for the homosexual sub-culture to inform and , on occasion , dominate virtually every pop style since the 1950s and none more so than in mid-1980s — but still to find itself politically disenfranchised , socially marginal , and vulnerable to attacks from the New Morality . |
| 15 | This particular fish was very shortly going to find itself in exceedingly troubled waters . |
| 16 | I would not wish the Council to find itself in a position in which it felt obliged to oppose the franchising arrangements as a result of your published views as to future developments which might emerge from the franchising scheme . ’ |
| 17 | If she 's not careful , her poor old taxi is going to find itself off the road for a week . |
| 18 | The tenant does not want to find itself paying a proportion of the service charge ( which may include rates ) of unlet units . |
| 19 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |