Example sentences of "[noun sg] could find [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a serious offence , but it means first-time offenders committing that crime could find themselves in prison . ’ |
| 2 | The rejection of the peace plan , and the possibility that the West could find itself in military confrontation with the Bosnian Serbs , raises the threat of a more general Balkan war . |
| 3 | But when he works his way round to the Home Office budget , campaigners against the Fazakerley jail could find themselves with a powerful new ally . |
| 4 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
| 5 | As a result , a nation could find itself with huge quantities of substances which it does not need — which is precisely the American experience . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |