Example sentences of "finds itself [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 What if a council finds itself on the brink ?
2 IBM also finds itself at the wrong end of several historical trends .
3 The Centre for Human Ecology , with its origins in the late C.H. Waddington 's ‘ School of the Man-Made Future ’ of the 1960s and a long history of promoting environmental awareness within the University , today finds itself at the hub of current ideology .
4 Is the inescapable conclusion , therefore , that the régime finds itself between the devil and the deep blue sea ?
5 Today the school finds itself in the midst of a public debate which is shaking the foundations of French politics — some say ethics — has split Mitterand 's Socialist Party down the middle and has put the questions of immigration and integration back on the agenda with a vengeance .
6 As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream .
7 In this reading of things , each bureaucracy has become adept at marking out turf and advancing its own interests , whilst the Party-State leadership finds itself in the position of ‘ broker ’ between contending interests and ‘ constituencies ’ .
8 It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s .
9 To my personal embarrassment to the extent that I was a party to the majority of the decisions to which I have referred , I have to say that I think that this court again finds itself in the same position .
10 That is the real reason Strathclyde finds itself in the midst of the gravest financial crisis in its history — not the can pay , wo n't pay' Poll Tax rebels .
11 My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’
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