Example sentences of "[noun] find itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 2 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 3 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 4 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 5 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 6 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 7 | If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following : |
| 8 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 11 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 12 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 13 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 14 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 15 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 16 | W. T. Stead 's sensational exposé of the latter in his articles on ‘ The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ’ generated a sense of outrage with which a wide spectrum of public opinion found itself in sympathy . |
| 17 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 18 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
| 19 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |
| 20 | Here , at the top of Bridge Street , on the road to Rickmansworth , is where respectable Pinner finds itself in rude confrontation with the real world . |
| 21 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 22 | Very seldom in the history of French sport has a national team found itself under an almost moral obligation to win ’ , said the same editorial . |
| 23 | The ritualized nature of the contest is made particularly clear by what happens if one of the fish finds itself with a temporary , but irregular , advantage . |
| 24 | That is the real reason Strathclyde finds itself in the midst of the gravest financial crisis in its history — not the can pay , wo n't pay' Poll Tax rebels . |
| 25 | In no time at all , The Haçienda found itself with a reputation of being the coldest , most unresponsive , most apathetic gigging hall in the country . |
| 26 | In Spain in the 1960s , INI found itself with representatives of the ministries of finance , commerce , industry , public works , agriculture , as well as the ministries of the army , navy and airforce , on its board of directors ( Fernandez 1970 : 951–2 ) . |
| 27 | In 1918 the 47-year-old Reich created by Bismarck found itself in an increasingly difficult situation . |
| 28 | Other aircraft joined in the fight , and before it could make a second attack the Albatros found itself under attack . |
| 29 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 30 | Compared with other training programmes , medical education finds itself in relatively fortunate circumstances . |