Example sentences of "[noun] finds [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 2 | I would love to have short negotiations because I am deeply conscious of the serious position in which the farming industry finds itself because of its lack of knowledge of where we are going . |
| 3 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 4 | One problem with the current regime is demonstrated by the quandary Murray Johnstone finds itself in . |
| 5 | If McAlpine finds itself in a position to proceed to Stage II of the IDO registration procedure , i.e. the drawing up and presentation of a Plan of Operations , the Consortium will have to consider the following : |
| 6 | But it also happens that in the organization of recorded knowledge for retrieval the profession of librarianship finds itself at an interesting point of crisis . |
| 7 | Here Alice Walker finds herself in a typical double bind : the cultural and political conditions of her novel are deracinated ; it becomes immensely popular among white middle-class readers who , unsurprisingly , have read few other black writers ; it is accused of assuaging white guilt , of being charmingly apolitical … |
| 8 | BACK from a cricket tour of the West Indies , Darlington photographer Ian Wright finds himself almost overtaken by letters from gizza job Barbadians . |
| 9 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 10 | If we can start into the budget then , I think members will be fully aware of the wider context that the County Council finds itself in , and we 're not proposing to rehearse that at any great length for you other than if you wish us to er , run through that again . |
| 11 | This is within , as members will be aware , the overall financial position that the County Council finds itself in , of having to get its expenditure within the cap , and the fact that the increase in cap for the authority as a whole , does not in any way , mirror the increase in standard spending assessment for Social Services Committee , where we have been fortunate in terms the increase for this county , erm , and a variety of other factors which , which mean that it would be nice to think that where S S A increases for this Committee , it also increases for the County Council . |
| 12 | The salmon sheets Chair , we have shown our estimates of what ideally we would like for the continuing introduction of the Children Act and its requirements , the Criminal Justice Act , and the Warner Reports , but we do recognize , and I think this Committee recognizes , the difficult financial position the County Council finds itself in , and therefore the intention is to meet those unavoidable requirements from within the base budget , and there are no bids in these papers for funding towards those . |
| 13 | ‘ Instead the council finds itself in an impossible position . ’ |
| 14 | Eston Baths would be one of the centres under threat if Langbaurgh Council finds itself charge-capped by the Government . |
| 15 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 16 | We are always sad when a young international athlete finds himself in this situation . ’ |
| 17 | It often happens that a particular cat finds itself betrayed by a friendly human hand . |
| 18 | THE schools-club conflict referred to in a recent column is highlighted by the position in which talented Lisburn batsman Graeme Lyness finds himself . |
| 19 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 20 | The campaign to save a local arts centre starts innocently enough , but soon becomes the target for intimidation , and Jane finds herself in increasing danger as she uncovers layers of corruption that spread from an Oxford college to the Houses of Parliament . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then the fisherman finds himself desperately widening the hole with the point of the spike while trying to keep a grip on the rod with the other hand . |
| 23 | This , after all , is the position in which every other professional group finds itself . |
| 24 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 25 | The state of emergency in which our planet finds itself consists not only in the contamination of nature but of the very roots of our thought , which are still shaped by thousands of years of prejudice and prescriptive categories . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When three students steal a quantity of uranium , Spiderman finds himself called upon to sort out a sinister web of international arms dealing . |
| 28 | When a business finds itself seriously short of cash it can often buy breathing time by approaching its creditors and asking for a moratorium on payments . |
| 29 | It is in fact a purely physical problem associated with excessive amounts of gas ( usually atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen ) dissolved in the water in which the fish finds itself , be that an aquarium , pond or indeed lake . |
| 30 | The ritualized nature of the contest is made particularly clear by what happens if one of the fish finds itself with a temporary , but irregular , advantage . |