Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] face of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng Xiaoping could not tolerate the loss of face of postponement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This experience , working at state level in face of the Depression from 1929 , was invaluable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | [ For retention of Peres as chair in face of mid-1990 challenge by Itzhak Rabin see p. 37626 . ] |
| 11 | Maintaining the policy in face of previously unthinkable levels of unemployment became a test of ‘ resolute leadership ’ . |
| 12 | But there can be no doubt as to the Christian method in face of that challenge . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | A JOBLESS couple are determined to start a new business life in face of a vandalism threat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There are no girls on earth that have the beauty of face of the American girl , nor the peculiar charm of your lasses . |
| 17 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |
| 18 | In Sweden an even more striking increase in face of the intensified pressures and dangers of the early twentieth century took place , from nineteen in 1905 to eighty-eight in 1918 . |
| 19 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |
| 20 | Fault-tolerant Unix systems builder Sequoia Systems Inc is considering selling itself , filing for bankruptcy or obtaining additional financing in face of its financial woes . |
| 21 | The population was used to receiving orders and to strict regulation in face of shared danger and privation . |
| 22 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |