Example sentences of "[noun] find itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
2 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
3 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |
4 | Here , at the top of Bridge Street , on the road to Rickmansworth , is where respectable Pinner finds itself in rude confrontation with the real world . |
5 | The country found itself during 1990 and in the early part of 1991 in a vicious circle of falling productivity and chronic shortages caused by the lack of foreign exchange to pay for imports . |