Example sentences of "[noun pl] find themselves [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As the mines became deeper companies found themselves unable to provide the necessary capital for winding and pumping equipment . |
| 5 | From 1973–5 the Soviet Union sold Peru aircraft , tanks , surface-to-air missiles and artillery on very generous terms and when , in 1978 , the Peruvians found themselves unable to maintain payments for their weapons , the Soviet Union rolled over the debt until 1981–8 , indicating their reluctance to relinquish this sole market . |
| 6 | The applied mathematicians found themselves able to claim that ‘ industry ’ also approved of ‘ modelling ’ , numerical methods and so on , as well as being able to derive resources of personnel and money from companies with which to further the promotion of their version of ‘ mathematics ’ . [ … ] |
| 7 | However , local farmers found themselves unable effectively to combat the pollution or even to extract adequate damages from the company . |
| 8 | Managers find themselves involved in new areas of expertise as our services multiply . |
| 9 | If , for any reason , these other institutions find themselves short of liquidity their first resort will be to the discount market for repayment . |
| 10 | The money ran out before the scheme 's completion , and the villagers found themselves obliged to borrow the rest . |
| 11 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 12 | Scientists found themselves able to explain how one event causes another in the physical world without supposing objects in that world to have all the qualities we perceive them as having . |
| 13 | These notices brought clients into local CABx while advisers found themselves unprepared for their enquiries . |
| 14 | It will show that , while older people organized themselves into pressure groups and old age itself became an increasingly attractive political issue , ultimately the organizations representing pensioners found themselves powerless to combat the notion that enforced retirement should become the normal experience for older people . |
| 15 | By the summer of 1885 , Anglican bishops , freethinkers and socialists found themselves able to work together in a short-lived coalition against sexual abuse of children . |
| 16 | When the less-than-ideal situation arises , however , and the magistrates find themselves unable to agree it appears that justices clerks have also been unable to reach a verdict on the correct interpretation of section 9(2) of the 1980 Act . |
| 17 | The unlucky ones find themselves pig-in-the-middle between college and school tutors , each of whom is convinced of the rightness of their own particular way of teaching and the wrongness ( hopelessly impractical , hopelessly out-of-date ) of the other . |
| 18 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 19 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |