Example sentences of "[noun pl] found [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 2 | In carrying out this duty , local authorities found themselves attempting to assess the numbers and needs of the disabled on a scale never before attempted . |
| 3 | The real researchers found themselves as restricted as the employed technicians , and soon left in frustration . |
| 4 | Moreover , these groups found themselves to be in a catch 22 — no win — situation so far as their own political action was concerned . |
| 5 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 6 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 7 | From 1982 onwards , Romania 's Western creditors found themselves faced by a baffling response from Bucharest to their offers of further credit . |
| 8 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 9 | But when Britain went off the Gold Standard in 1931 , the Champagne houses found themselves receiving just two-thirds of the price they had come to expect . |
| 10 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | Feeling in Congress was less critical than it had been and Senator William F. Knowland ( Republican , California ) , a lively critic of the administration , supported it over Korean aid while castigating the administration for the serious economic plight in which the Koreans found themselves . |
| 12 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 13 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 14 | The manufacturers found themselves ‘ excluded alike from the County Commission of the Peace and the Municipal Corporation ’ , and from ‘ this essentially ‘ caste ’ struggle between the Tory squires and the radical manufacturers ’ ( Webb and Webb 1963:93 ) there emerged not only the widening of the parliamentary franchise but also the pressure for change in the urban areas . |
| 15 | Ajayi found herself wondering every so often . |
| 16 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 17 | Once the original cease-fire had been put into effect in 1988 , both parties found themselves with immense tasks of reconstruction to contend with and little , apart from their battered oil-export systems , with which to finance them . |
| 18 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 19 | This , too , has its mirror image in the Zionist experience , when Jews found themselves endangered in Europe . |
| 20 | Following the Exodus from Egypt and the Settlement in Canaan in the latter part of the second millennium BC , the Jews found themselves in a region which was on the main line of communication between Egypt and Babylonia . |
| 21 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 22 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 23 | Apart from the paperwork and delays incurred on both sides of the bridge , exporters found themselves exposed to political pressures and a declining market , as Jordan developed its own agricultural potential on the east side of the Jordan valley . |
| 24 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 25 | It is n't that difficult then to imagine how Johanna 's parents found themselves on Christmas Eve in the position they did — unsure whether their daughter was with her friends or in terrible danger . |
| 26 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 27 | Once again , the Elves found themselves in the middle of a war without a Phoenix King . |
| 28 | Many refugees found themselves in the same position . |
| 29 | Thus political leaders of lesser developed countries found themselves part of a government that had officially accepted a family planning programme or soil conservation programme ( or both ) , but were aware that there was widespread opposition locally to both . |
| 30 | As a result , the Conservatives found themselves badly defeated in 1945 . |