Example sentences of "[noun] find [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Slack ’ , the band 's second indie release , nestling freshly in the racks , Bivouac find themselves the objects of slavering major label attention on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 3 | A palaeontologist and a journalist find themselves in Callimba , where Cleopatra 's sister Berenice once reigned . |
| 4 | The fortunate survivors find themselves with a wealth of food and very little competition in which to grow to their maximum potential . |
| 5 | Good luck to all those , and there are dozens , who this spring find themselves beyond the dressing-room doors . |
| 6 | Educationists working with under-fives and in nursery settings find themselves regularly in contact with other professionals from health , social services , voluntary agencies . |
| 7 | Rather than arguing about whether God exists , the theist and the atheist find themselves arguing about whether metaphysical terms have meaning . |
| 8 | According to General Accident , about 50,000 drivers find themselves stranded on the autobahn every year . |
| 9 | Never again will the United States find itself , at the outset of an entirely unexpected war , with enough hardware to fight the only kind of war it knows how to . |
| 10 | ( b ) The proactive , directional planning approach is usually more appropriate to the dynamic environment in which schools find themselves and to their need to react to pupils and circumstances . |
| 11 | Differences occur between teachers , between children , and between various environments in which schools find themselves . |
| 12 | In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in , a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed . |
| 13 | Many parents find themselves pleasantly surprised when the difficult stage passes with the minimum number of crises and heartbreaks . |
| 14 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 15 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 16 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 17 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 18 | Instead it is single cash-crops which attract most research , developed outside the context of the production situation in which small farmers in steep-sloped and ecologically fragile areas find themselves . |
| 19 | Should Alexei Sultanov find himself , in 40 years , all washed up , he will need only to go to Fort Worth to find all the tribute due to a Van Cliburn winner in the prime of life . |
| 20 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 21 | As pressure for land grows , more and more of Sri Lanka 's surviving elephants find themselves cut off in small patches of forest surrounded by agriculture . |
| 22 | I am sure that we are all delighted that numbers in schools are now rising because it can be a very difficult situation in which to work when er a head teacher and governing body find themselves trying to manage a continuous decline . |
| 23 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 24 | I will argue that such a truth is relational ; that is , relative to the social and historical location of the intersubjective action , discursive and practical , in which participants find themselves . |
| 25 | It is increasingly likely that anyone who takes an active role in any organisation will at some point find themselves involved in setting up a ‘ special event ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well , it 's erm , fairly local incident , that this paper has been er borne , er to give the er permission for borrowing , when the labour , liberal er controlling group find themselves in this embarrassing position , er , of having to find an extra eleven million pounds to maintain their services . |
| 28 | How exactly might mutually resembling individuals find themselves clustered together , in local aggregations ? |
| 29 | The character of family relationships has been changing and continues to change to suit the particular circumstances in which individuals find themselves — often very subtly but sometimes quite visibly . |
| 30 | Evidence for this comes from the fact that the ambivalent expression does not seem to be confined to a limited range of situations , in which individuals find themselves on public display , especially to an audience from a higher social class or more advanced educational attainment . |