Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] found [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 2 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 3 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 4 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 5 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 6 | The planned Leipzig Museum for Contemporary Art was conceived back in 1987 , before the reunification of Germany , as a place in which art from both East and West could be seen together a means of ending the isolation that East German museums found themselves in . |
| 7 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 8 | Mosley 's political trajectory was an extreme reaction to the dilemma in which British socialists found themselves . |
| 9 | The Revolution also changed the earlier status of the Whigs as a party of opposition and the Tories as the party of government , as some Whigs found themselves increasingly drawn into the new royal administration , and as Tories became more and more alienated from the new regime . |
| 10 | Those who in peacetime seemed brave or merely quaint for believing in all those old doctrines found themselves in wartime much in demand , some as evangelists , some as prophets , some as teachers . |
| 11 | The Social Democrats found themselves without influence inside a hard-line Stalinist party . |
| 12 | The real researchers found themselves as restricted as the employed technicians , and soon left in frustration . |
| 13 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 14 | Thus political leaders of lesser developed countries found themselves part of a government that had officially accepted a family planning programme or soil conservation programme ( or both ) , but were aware that there was widespread opposition locally to both . |
| 15 | Individual families found themselves divided ; the most troublesome and devious of the Sussex Royalists , Sir Edward Ford , was the brother-in-law of the Parliamentary General Ireton . |
| 16 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 17 | Moreover , these groups found themselves to be in a catch 22 — no win — situation so far as their own political action was concerned . |
| 18 | As the mines became deeper companies found themselves unable to provide the necessary capital for winding and pumping equipment . |
| 19 | An investigation into the Youth Training Scheme , for example , points out that a much smaller proportion of young black people were obtaining places on the Mode A schemes , which offered better chances of permanent employment , and in larger proportions found themselves placed in Mode B schemes , with worse prospects ( CRE , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Not all sub-tenants found themselves incorporated into such an idealistic new system . |
| 21 | The limits on cash withdrawals were so strict that many companies found themselves without cash even to pay wages . |
| 22 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 23 | Many energy-intensive industries had to reduce their productive capacity , e.g. oil refineries , steel works , while international banks found themselves engaged in a massive petro-dollar recycling operation between surplus and deficit countries . |
| 24 | But media apart , thousands and thousands of white and Black Americans found themselves standing in front of this indisputably charismatic orator . |
| 25 | Many landlords found themselves in economic difficulties , and there was widespread impoverishment of tenants and small farmers . |
| 26 | Under the Poor Law many children found themselves bound to either masters or mistresses who exploited them and at times treated them with great cruelty , while our own age has learned with shame of the extent of ill-treatment even within the family . |
| 27 | How have black elders found themselves in their present socioeconomic position ? |
| 28 | Married women found themselves either excluded entirely from , or treated very poorly by , a whole range of measures designed to work through the labour market . |
| 29 | Billeting allowances were available to cover the cost of hosting an evacuee ( for unaccompanied children , 10s 6d per week for the first child , 8s 6d each for subsequent children ) and billeting officers had powers of compulsion to utilise appropriate accommodation , but most , being from the locality themselves , preferred to ruffle as few feathers as possible — with the result that on arrival many evacuees found themselves in a scene ‘ reminiscent of a cross between an early Roman slave market and Selfridge 's bargain basement ’ , as one witness put it . |
| 30 | The UK clearing banks found themselves in a brave new world . |