Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] face [prep] " 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 | So , the effective approach for dealing with objections involves two areas : the preparation of convincing answers ; and the development of a range of techniques for answering objections in a manner which permits the acceptance of these answers without loss of face on the part of the buyer . |
| 3 | Empty house , chagrin perhaps that he had n't heeded her theme , loss of face with the TV company , negligent children ? |
| 4 | Repeal of these laws would involve considerable loss of face for some politicians and their advisers . |
| 5 | Graves divides the writing process into stages and , through the encouragement of conferencing , facilitates intervention without loss of face for the pupil . |
| 6 | Deng Xiaoping could not tolerate the loss of face of postponement . |
| 7 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er we sell the whole concept on the phone er but we also have the luxury of face to face . |
| 10 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 11 | This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees . |
| 12 | I want a bit of face to face something more interesting this is er getting a little bit tedious . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From the west , women 's issues predominate : themes of domesticity and escapism , taboo subjects such as domestic violence and incest , adolescent insecurities and the injustice of the law in face of all of these issues . |
| 15 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 16 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |
| 17 | Some experiments will be conducted where video sequences of voice and face do not match ; and , in order to evaluate the primacy of face over voice , the onset of each will be varied . |
| 18 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 19 | This experience , working at state level in face of the Depression from 1929 , was invaluable . |
| 20 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 21 | Conversational analysts have been particularly concerned with the use of language to negotiate role-relationships , peer-solidarity , the exchange of turns in a conversation , the saving of face of both speaker and hearer ( cf. |
| 22 | [ For retention of Peres as chair in face of mid-1990 challenge by Itzhak Rabin see p. 37626 . ] |
| 23 | Maintaining the policy in face of previously unthinkable levels of unemployment became a test of ‘ resolute leadership ’ . |
| 24 | But there can be no doubt as to the Christian method in face of that challenge . |
| 25 | Drake also has conspicuous white mark at side of breast ; duck has white eye-ring , and obscure whitish patch on face at base of bill . |
| 26 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 27 | The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face . |
| 28 | A JOBLESS couple are determined to start a new business life in face of a vandalism threat . |
| 29 | This multiple view of Cruz not only gives an insight into the conflicting forces that have been struggling to control his soul , but also reflects his loss of integrity as a man and his disintegration in face of his approaching death . |
| 30 | So in fairness I got this , excuse the expression , arse about face in the sense that I ha I thought prioritize these and pensions were , was this and that 's why you were exploring the needs for the second appointment . |