Example sentences of "[pron] find itself [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement .
2 The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 .
3 Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back .
4 It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s .
5 There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons .
6 It found itself in unanimity with Jordan in warning people like Ja'bari against any unauthorized initiative with the enemy .
7 This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX .
8 It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually .
9 So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands .
10 In the language of p. 27 the electron originally was not in an eigenstate of position but in some superposition of such states ; after the act of measurement it finds itself in an eigenstate of position corresponding to the eigenvalue which is the result of that particular measurement .
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