Example sentences of "[adv] find itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having ridden the contradictions , the paper suddenly found itself in the middle of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Internationally , ’ the Jerusalem Post noted , ‘ Israel suddenly finds itself in a glare of warm light as excruciatingly awkward as it is refreshingly flattering — a position of strength based almost entirely on passivity . |
| 3 | In an interview with the Tallinn weekly Maaleht , he said the Estonian Party would do this even though it ‘ will obviously find itself in conflict with certain forces in the Soviet Communist Party ’ . |
| 4 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 5 | The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position . |
| 6 | It is clear then , that a multi-service firm can easily find itself in a position where the duties it owes come into conflict . |
| 7 | Havel 's most controversial proposals concerned legislative procedures for the Federal Assembly , since , he said , " the present Federal Assembly can easily find itself in a situation when it will be totally incapable of passing any fundamental laws vital for the functioning of the state " . |
| 8 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 9 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 10 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 11 | IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends . |
| 12 | Morgan Grenfell , once the high-flyer of British merchant banking , now finds itself with few British allies . |
| 13 | In other words , conscience begins to have marked effect , as the attitudes and strictures of which the child has bad experience during its upbringing are supported or modified by the beginnings of life within society , and is built into the sexual persona of the boy or girl ( increasingly meaningful terms at this stage ) which the child now finds itself to be . |
| 14 | The electron now finds itself outside an electrically neutral system , namely the positive proton and the close-in negative muon ; the electron escapes and where once was a hydrogen atom is now muonic hydrogen . |
| 15 | In it , the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock . |
| 16 | The creditor will often find itself in a position of having to explain the security transaction to the proposed surety if an unimpeachable security is to be obtained . |
| 17 | The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology . |
| 18 | The rotor then finds itself in advance of the instantaneous equilibrium position and the motor is able to produce the negative decelerating torque . |
| 19 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 20 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 21 | To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position . |
| 22 | Yet even the British acknowledge that there are individuals and countries ‘ wedded to sanctions ’ , and according to Commonwealth officials , Britain may well again find itself in a minority of one when the subject is debated . |
| 23 | Tandem may not be the first commercial box-shifter out with a Chorus-based system , though it may yet find itself in a race to be first to deliver in volume . |
| 24 | Some industry watchers espouse the theory that says Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp picked on the COSE move as a way out of OSF and that OSF could eventually find itself with its funding terminated and its sponsors telling it it 's a for-profit software developer . |
| 25 | It therefore found itself in opposition to what it regarded as the stupidity , incompetence and prejudice of the actual holders of political and economic power . |
| 26 | Even though by 1873 it was proclaimed the biggest brewing company in the world , Truman 's too found itself under pressure from the growing popularity of Burton ales . |
| 27 | If the regulatory agency relied on victim-complaints for corporate crime , then it might never find itself in business . |