Example sentences of "[adv] find themselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 2 | But the thing is , what they do tend to do is , they suddenly find themselves in a panic because they 've behaved like this about it and the person at the other end is shouting when are you coming to see this organ |
| 3 | US airlines already find themselves at a disadvantage because of ‘ open sky ’ policies during Reagan-era deregulation , they say . |
| 4 | Women in business today still find themselves in a male-dominated environment where only 20% of managers are women . |
| 5 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 6 | For instance , Music and Sports both find themselves in the Arts . |
| 7 | At its most typical , this new form of innovation is at least primarily a marketing function , and this contrasts sharply with other kinds of innovation , which , governed by internal cultural purposes , often find themselves at the very margin of the market or indeed outside it altogether . |
| 8 | In the years leading up to retirement and after , women often find themselves in the role of carer , looking after an aged partner or ailing parents and other relations , or in certain situations , adult children . |
| 9 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |
| 10 | Concern was also expressed about the lack of rights for trainees — they often find themselves in a vulnerable situation . |
| 11 | Younger women , on reaching 30 , often find themselves in conflict over whether to marry , have children , or combine motherhood with a career . |
| 12 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |
| 13 | With the details of ohms , amps , radiation dosages , and the speed of a new high-velocity missile fresh in their minds , the military technologists have exhausted their discussions and now find themselves on parade . |
| 14 | Recipients of many conifers have been the National Parks which now find themselves under serious threat from developers instead of trees . |
| 15 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 16 | The book will examine the industrial changes that influenced the separate development of ‘ company men ’ in America , Europe and Asia — men who now find themselves in competition with each other . |
| 17 | The libertarians , in common with the ideologists of the left , whose tactics they often self-consciously copy , frequently find themselves in conflict with their own party , which they claim is insufficiently ideological ( Durham , 1985 ; Gamble , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | It should be borne in mind that many labour-only sub-contractors lack administrative and management ability and therefore find themselves in financial difficulties when employing labour or expanding their gang size . |