Example sentences of "faced with the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the defenceless young man asking for mercy , the blacksmith could not kill him , so he relieved him of his sword and took him prisoner . |
| 2 | Faced with the downward sloping market demand curve , the monopoly producer will maximise profits by producing where marginal cost is equal to marginal revenue at M , output will be cut back to Qm and price will be raised to Pm . |
| 3 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 4 | At that particular time , er , quite right , faced with the failing national economy , and it 's got worse than it was then , and an increase in poverty in , this controlling group produced its plan for 1990 ninety one and in it 's redirection packages which are now part of our agenda on Council we d we made to pledges , one was to change the nature of Council and the other was to redirect sources on the process of need and we put four point three million on redirection in the first year , four point seven the second year . |
| 5 | In addition , since the vast majority of people rented their homes , retiring ministers were not faced with the late twentieth-century dilemma of buying a house when one 's income ceased . |
| 6 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most impressive sight of all — if only because most brains , when faced with the sheer galactic enormity of A'Tuin , refuse to believe it — is the endless Rimfall , where the seas of the disc boil ceaselessly over the Edge into space . |
| 8 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 9 | When faced with the end-of-level bad guys , shoulder or headbutt ( I said HEADBUTT ! ) them — autofire is very handy for this part of the game . |