Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] find [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 2 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 3 | The manufacturers found themselves ‘ excluded alike from the County Commission of the Peace and the Municipal Corporation ’ , and from ‘ this essentially ‘ caste ’ struggle between the Tory squires and the radical manufacturers ’ ( Webb and Webb 1963:93 ) there emerged not only the widening of the parliamentary franchise but also the pressure for change in the urban areas . |
| 4 | Feeling in Congress was less critical than it had been and Senator William F. Knowland ( Republican , California ) , a lively critic of the administration , supported it over Korean aid while castigating the administration for the serious economic plight in which the Koreans found themselves . |
| 5 | Following the Exodus from Egypt and the Settlement in Canaan in the latter part of the second millennium BC , the Jews found themselves in a region which was on the main line of communication between Egypt and Babylonia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 8 | Whereas in Italy , where the Communist Party also split , the reformers outnumbered the old guard , in Spain the reformers found themselves in a minority . |
| 9 | With the cumulative debt arising from this amounting to nearly 20 billion dollars by 1982 , the Yugoslavs found themselves in danger of default on debt service . |
| 10 | As a result , the Conservatives found themselves badly defeated in 1945 . |
| 11 | He also stressed that NATO must " seek out areas of complementarity with the other bodies within which the allies find themselves together in Europe " , notably the European Communities ( EC ) and the CSCE , to which he accorded particular importance as " the only place where all European countries can meet " . |
| 12 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 13 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 14 | The Christians found themselves under attack not only from the Roman government but also from Greek philosophers and representatives of high literary culture , orators , historians ( but not natural scientists ) . |
| 15 | But when in the early summer the Palestinians appeared on the slopes of Mount Sannine and the Christians found themselves in danger of total defeat , a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon became certain . |
| 16 | As a result the banks found themselves in a quandary — they had lent vast sums of money which could neither be repaid nor return interest . |
| 17 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 18 | For example , when the musical phrases get complicated because of the use of many notes , the dancers find themselves using their hands feverishly in order to give every note its value . |
| 19 | After talks with Edward , and having survived robbery with violence in Durham diocese , the cardinals found themselves excluded from Scotland by Bruce . |
| 20 | There was nothing unique in this ; it was n't uncommon in the lanes to find oneself stuck behind a slow-moving tractor with a twelve-year-old in the cab , using public highways to get from one piece of a farm to another . |
| 21 | Suddenly all the characters find themselves in an ‘ aerobrain ’ headed across the Atlantic toward San Fransisco , with a stop-over in Atlanta en route . |
| 22 | The money ran out before the scheme 's completion , and the villagers found themselves obliged to borrow the rest . |
| 23 | Such an agreement may in political terms be the only way out of the impasse in which the teachers find themselves . |
| 24 | At different times in the week , the teachers found themselves taking different roles . |
| 25 | In their sterns , men jolted over the gunwales found themselves swept away , sinking in midstream . |
| 26 | On command , the vans raced to the side of the road , the cordon parted , and the demonstrators found themselves facing a mounted police charge at full gallop . |
| 27 | The girls found themselves glasses and bottles and began drinking . |
| 28 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 29 | The ceremony was supposed to start at 2 pm on the 29th : the Gulf on whose beach the men found themselves had been named San Miguel because of the happy coincidence of the feast day . |
| 30 | During the 1980s the police found themselves embroiled in a number of controversies . |