The phrase "as it found" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The report was submitted as it found the necessary data."
Alternatives: "as it discovered" or "as it revealed".
It is clear to me – a China watcher even before my MIT days – that China is finding its own route to scientific success, just as it found its own path to economic growth.
The number of dead rubbers was also a major blight, terminally derailing the tournament just as it found its stride.
But gradually, as it found its feet, Merlin stopped this listless wheel-spinning and started moving things on.
And as it found its way on to C4, the series had the perfect PR backdrop in the shape of New Labour's "social exclusion agenda".
Instead, we show that the Colorado River used some old segments as it found its path from the Rockies to the Gulf of California in the past six million years".
It has long been a PC-focused service, as it found its start and footing in the PC gaming world.
When Mohsni went up with the goalkeeper for Templeton's deep cross the ball appeared to evade both as it found its way into the net.
Still, we'll find time to squeeze in a little patriotism, as inspired by Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe, who identifies the Fourth of July holiday as his "…favorite secular one for being public and for its implicit goal of leaving us only as it found us: free".
The Party of the Independent Greeks (ANEL), led by Panos Kammenos, which appeared to be in a strong position, saw its fortunes take a turn for the worse as it found itself caught up in a farcical corruption scandal when one of its outspoken members, Pavlos Chaikalis, claimed he was offered millions to help keep the Samaras government afloat.
Given the events of recent days as it found itself under siege from the government and its rightwing critics in the press, the BBC could probably do with a hug.
At the outset, the United States had opposed any participation in the scheme by the Soviets, but as it found itself more and more isolated it moderated its reservations to accept Moscow in the plan but to insist on limiting how much the Soviet Union would be able to seek for its own economic needs.
