Example sentences of "find themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irish catholics find themselves in an ambiguous relationship to Irish nationalism . |
| 2 | Since it is usual in training to make circuit patterns from 800 feet or so , inexperienced pilots are often seriously put out if they find themselves unable to do this on a field landing . |
| 3 | Most pilots who are sensitive find themselves incapable of doing this exercise and their reactions are obvious . |
| 4 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 5 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 6 | For example , when the musical phrases get complicated because of the use of many notes , the dancers find themselves using their hands feverishly in order to give every note its value . |
| 7 | The dancers or players in a theme ballet will need to convey the general atmosphere and any other element pertinent to the situation in which they find themselves , as well as the mood and content of the music chosen to give them phrasing . |
| 8 | In addition , during start-up and overload conditions the capacitors ( and their larger parallel damping capacitors , if fitted ) find themselves with the wrong DC bias , and charging occurs through potentially very low impedances . |
| 9 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 10 | US airlines already find themselves at a disadvantage because of ‘ open sky ’ policies during Reagan-era deregulation , they say . |
| 11 | The opera 's subtitle is ‘ The School for Loves ’ ; and during the course of this dangerous experiment in human emotions , in which the two sisters unwittingly find themselves seduced by each other 's lover , all four central protagonists learn something about themselves . |
| 12 | Many jazz-players , often to the detriment of their later careers , rise to prominence through a single performance or achievement and find themselves saddled with an epithet expressing public expectations . |
| 13 | As not only Chubei and Umegawa but also Yohei and his wife find themselves under sentence of death from the Shoguns ' inexorable laws , both couples make a suicide pact . |
| 14 | But the authorities take all complaints seriously , which leads some constables to fear ‘ the flippin' solicitor 's letter ’ ( FN 5/10/87 , p. 16 ) , although one middleranking officer once expressed considerable sympathy for the post — tion some police constables find themselves in as a result of being hedged ( as they are in Northern Ireland 's more unusual position as a divided society ) between authorities who are exceedingly sensitive to complaints against the police and a public which has sections eager to complain , even in Protestant-dominated Easton . |
| 15 | Any members who find themselves in the Adelaide area can be assured of a warm welcome there . |
| 16 | Himself unspeaking , armed with his razor he reduces life to the level of a primitive ‘ shriek ’ with which ‘ the ladies of the corridor ’ , despite the way in which they ‘ Call witness to their principles/ And deprecate the lack of taste ’ , find themselves inescapably ‘ involved ’ . |
| 17 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 18 | Weakened by the separation from their families , suffering often the loss of mother , sisters and close friends , these Asian women find themselves in a strange unknown society . |
| 19 | Snatched from the security and love of their sisters in the joint family , Bengali women in Britain often find themselves forced into total emotional dependence on their husbands . |
| 20 | When people from this background find themselves in the middle of an industrial set-up , it is not easy for them to adjust their values or frames of reference , just as people from an industrial society , used to individual wages and jobs , would feel confused if suddenly thrust into a peasant society . |
| 21 | With the details of ohms , amps , radiation dosages , and the speed of a new high-velocity missile fresh in their minds , the military technologists have exhausted their discussions and now find themselves on parade . |
| 22 | We can provide a proper home for those who find themselves with nowhere to live . |
| 23 | He trawls for advice and information from dozens of people , who find themselves invited to Kensington Palace quite out of the blue . |
| 24 | They go quite privately ; they buy tickets for the Grand Tier and , although a detective goes too , no one knows the Princess of Wales is in the house until they find themselves sitting behind her . |
| 25 | Dr Runcie said the new rules ‘ tried to steer a course between what I described as legislative schism and a measure which would reduce to second class membership those who find themselves unable to recognise women priests ’ . |
| 26 | They find themselves , for the first time , able to contemplate the two main features of Labour policy , greater independence in the investigation of complaints and a London police authority , with something less than total horror . |
| 27 | For those who find themselves in that category , something extra is now needed , some adventitious stroke of fortune , something to upset the terms of the argument and create a world no longer dominated by a leader of proven unpopularity . |
| 28 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 29 | Many people find themselves homeless within a year of leaving care . |
| 30 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |