Example sentences of "are faced with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that Russian publishers producing books on art are faced with the real threat of closure . |
| 2 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 3 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 4 | Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy . |
| 5 | Comparing his York findings with Booth 's in London , Rowntree concluded that ‘ we are faced with the startling probability that from 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the town population of the United Kingdom are living in poverty ’ . |
| 6 | All academic disciplines or areas of study are faced with the initial problem of providing the layperson or newcomer to the discipline with some idea as to what their subject ‘ is all about ’ . |
| 7 | Here , parents may provide valuable financial assistance to their married children in the early stages of their family life-cycle , when the head of the household is beginning a career , and when the young couples are faced with the initial expenses of setting up a home and providing for young children ( Bell , 1968 ) . |