Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] face to " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er we sell the whole concept on the phone er but we also have the luxury of face to face . |
| 4 | I want a bit of face to face something more interesting this is er getting a little bit tedious . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So , there 's an appropriate booking form for face to face which is actually in excess , . |
| 9 | The central sphere for the operation of the passions is the reality of face to face relationships . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |