Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side . |
| 2 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 3 | Even more patchy is Deutsche Grammophon 's ‘ Mozart 's Masterpieces , ’ another set of reissues where the unwary consumer may find himself with the superb piano artistry of Maurizio Pollini for one concerto , but the rather less impressive playing of Friedrich Gulda for another . |
| 4 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 5 | He will find himself at the heart of a Ruritanian ceremonial which makes the House of Lords seem informal . |
| 6 | RICHIE Richardson will find himself at the centre of another bitter Yorkshire bust-up tonight . |
| 7 | Together with the abolition of the Wage Councils and the minimum wage , the working man will find himself at the mercy of the unscrupulous bosses . |
| 8 | That is not to say that he would necessarily replace Weir , because in the long term Weir could still find himself on the side of the scrum — his lineout talents are difficult to ignore , and he has revelled in the additional freedom that the No 6 jumper is allowed . |
| 9 | Elected by the STV an MP would soon find himself under the same necessity as his Irish counterpart to maximize his local popularity at all costs . |
| 10 | Another who may find himself in the same situation will call upon all his inner resources in his efforts to deal with the problem . |
| 11 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 12 | Without rigorous financial controls , a haulier will never find himself in the happy position of considering a real expansion of his business . |
| 13 | The embattled Premier will now find himself in the dock at Brighton . |
| 14 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 15 | There was no-one in reception , but if a stranger entered , he would soon find himself in the company of a gentleman in a blue suit with a friendly smile on his face and a bulge under his coat . |
| 16 | If he was n't careful he would find himself in the dungeon — or dead . |
| 17 | Your client who is having to pay for the action would otherwise find himself in the position of being the loser financially despite an order on liability . |
| 18 | But Portillo is fast becoming flavour of the month and will increasingly find himself in the public eye . |
| 19 | The further east the boundaries are drawn , the more Britain will find itself on the Western periphery of a Germany-centred Europe . |
| 20 | ‘ Whereas with workflow management the document could find itself round the company to the right person — everyone has a PC on his or her desk — and you not only outsource a lot of the data entry work but get rid of the paper . ’ |
| 21 | Eventually the institution will find itself in the residual phase , in which the external constituency has ceased to exist and the biological growth is eroded by the loss to the movement of the uninterested children of the members . |
| 22 | If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’ |
| 23 | In another moment she would find herself on the other side of the door , facing disaster . |
| 24 | The surviving spouse of the most disagreeable , friendless partner may find herself at the centre of a crowd at his funeral , but once dispersed the crowd does not re-form . |
| 25 | And yet , when they followed the little girl 's instructions , they did indeed find themselves outside the church which was to be their landmark . |
| 26 | Relatively ignorant , inexperienced and amateur politicians may find themselves at the mercy of the bureaucracies , which possess knowledge , experience and technical expertise . |
| 27 | Most London homes will find themselves at the top levels . |
| 28 | Horses eliminated from the race at the bottom of the handicap will tomorrow find themselves at the top of the weights for the ‘ consolation ’ race the William Hill Spring Mile . |
| 29 | They will also find themselves at the centre of the debate over which sources are published and which are not . |
| 30 | The volunteers may find themselves at the centre of an even more important discovery . |