Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] face in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 4 | Bishops , archdeacons , canons , civil servants , monks : these are the men whose lives we may study in the sources , whom we can meet face to face in their own writings , the educated , privileged clergy . |
| 5 | A blockage can also occur when two rabbits come face to face in a hole of small diameter . |
| 6 | The Twickenham crowd will certainly hold their breath when he and Mick Skinner meet face to face in action . |
| 7 | FLASHPOINT THE famous day Spurs hard man Dave Mackay got to grips with Leeds legend Billy Bremner at White Hart Lane — two Scottish firebrands coming face to face in the heat of battle |
| 8 | The Manchester Guardian observed on 22 March that the situation in Korea was dangerous since ‘ Korea is one of the two parts of the world ( Germany is the other ) where the United States and the Soviet Union meet face to face in physical contact ’ . |
| 9 | When the French and the Vietminh came face to face in the south there was , apparently , no room for compromise and conflict was almost immediate . |
| 10 | But one day , in the late seventies , he and Fleury happened to come face to face in Pall Mall and , after a moment , succeeded in recognizing each other . |
| 11 | She looked from face to face in the darkness , faces that seemed to belong to hideous inquisitors , with the torch beams casting harsh angular shadows from below into their upturned faces . |
| 12 | R. L. Stevenson encountered immigrants from China as well as from Europe and reflected upon the irony of immigrants from hungry Europe and hungry China meeting face to face in the American West . |
| 13 | The last thing she wanted was to meet Dana and Garry face to face in a place crowded with tourists . |
| 14 | More recently they shared the points when they came face to face in the league opener at Newry . |
| 15 | Gabriel looked from face to face in search of some explanation . |
| 16 | I had , after all , been summoned to meet you face to face in Downing Street the following morning and obviously any difficulties could be sorted out then . |
| 17 | There 's no face to face in terms of selling . |
| 18 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |