Example sentences of "[prep] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 2 | The central sphere for the operation of the passions is the reality of face to face relationships . |
| 3 | I want a bit of face to face something more interesting this is er getting a little bit tedious . |
| 4 | Most businesses will place , or take , orders by telephone , or as a result of face to face dealing , for instance as a result of a representative 's visit or , less formally , at a trade fair or over a business lunch . |
| 5 | Er we sell the whole concept on the phone er but we also have the luxury of face to face . |
| 6 | Maud Ellmann , in her brilliant reading of Eliot 's The Waste Land , ‘ Eliot 's Abjection ’ , is similarly concerned with the figure of prosopopoeia , here the giving of face to death itself — a case of killing the past by finding it already dead . |
| 7 | The faces of the Argive youths have a more natural look than the Athenian , but the Attic artist has a far stronger grasp of form , of the relation of face to skull . |
| 8 | But it is usually the mark of a serious and deep-seated friendship that differences can be discussed and dealt with face to face . |
| 9 | Last year ACET educators saw 24,500 pupils in face to face presentations . |
| 10 | Assessments of individuals along any of these scales is an element of the shared local knowledge which develops out of living in face to face ( or often back to back ) communities . |
| 11 | When this happens in reciprocal discourse , in face to face conversation , where the discourse develops by the exchange of speaker role , then the situation can be remedied ( given the impulse to co-operate and to accommodate the reality of the interlocutor 's world ) by an overtly interactive negotiation whereby intention and interpretation are brought into an approximate convergence as required by the purpose of the interaction . |
| 12 | The Halifax Building Society uses IV to help its staff develop interpersonal skills in face to face and telephone interviews . |
| 13 | This was attributed mainly to the need to liaise with a large number of external agencies and bodies either by telephone or in face to face meetings . |
| 14 | At the turn of the twentieth century , this ‘ majority rule ’ , as it was known , held sway in the US ; thus denying a shareholder the right to sue a director who used inside information in face to face transactions . |
| 15 | Speech is normally used in face to face interaction whereas writing is used across barriers of space and time . |
| 16 | In the absence of strong evidence to the contrary , the law presumes that in face to face agreements the seller is prepared to deal with the person in front of him — whoever that may be . |
| 17 | But Eisenhower and Dulles continued to work on the assumption that they could buy time with diplomacy , and with this object in view — especially in face to face meetings with the British — they were reluctant to lean too heavily on their ally . |
| 18 | Purchasing inhibitions are more quickly overcome and buyers declare their purchasing interest sooner than in face to face selling/ buying situations . |
| 19 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 20 | Round the semi-circle of chairs quick looks flicked from face to face . |
| 21 | Abruptly the laird smiled , looking from face to face along the front row , and said , ‘ Well , well — it is a fine morning for it . |
| 22 | Even Oz was quiet , his eyes flickering from face to face . |
| 23 | Joe tapped his fingertips together and looked from face to face . |
| 24 | Laughter jumped from face to face . |
| 25 | He sat there , looking from face to face expectantly . |
| 26 | The boy 's eyes went from face to face . |
| 27 | He looked from face to face , but no one said anything . |
| 28 | You know how I feel , he thought , looking from face to face . |
| 29 | He looked from face to face , aware that the past three years had brought great changes in his thinking . |
| 30 | DeVore looked from face to face , gauging their response , coming to Weis last of all . |