Example sentences of "[noun sg] find [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 2 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 3 | The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak . |
| 4 | Once the mystery has provided a sufficient reason for hero or heroine to find themselves in a good opening situation of suspense , the person or persons behind that mystery can be safety revealed . |
| 5 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 6 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 7 | The economy finds itself in a suboptimal state of temporary equilibrium at point C owing to a sales constraint on output : firms would ideally like to produce Y * ; output and employ L * ; workers but , being unable to sell all of this output and employ this number of workers , they are obliged to produce a level of output Y 1 compatible with constraint on sales and hence employ only L 1 workers . |
| 8 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 9 | The government found itself in a difficult diplomatic position , given the fierce denial of the allegations by the Belgian authorities . |
| 10 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 11 | Roland had been a warrior at war ; the knights of the Round Table found themselves in every possible , and impossible , situation . |