Example sentences of "[adj] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There has been nothing to fire the voters ' imagination — no spectacular clashes over policy , no exciting face to face confrontations between leading personalities , no suspense even as to the outcome , for that has been a foregone conclusion for months : the Right will win , and in all probability with a thumping landslide majority .
2 Of all the thousands , the tens of thousands of people who lived in Palestine , of all the thousands of people who were crowded into Jerusalem , for this religious festival here is Pilate in this favoured position of having a personable , personal face to face encounter with Jesus Christ .
3 Team appraisal complements the individual face to face appraisal meeting .
4 This is not only the case when a discourse is constructed by two people interacting face to face ; it may also hold within the words of a single speaker .
5 Perhaps eventually small drop-in offices would be open in large towns or cities , offering instant face to face access .
6 Douglas now your background here is mainly erm er retail face to face but I can also read into and what er this and what you told me on the phone that there 's erm quote a lot of sales as well .
7 Collecting the data As we have seen , a questionnaire can be sent by post or administered face to face .
8 The magazine , the largest equestrian weekly , selling more than 75,000 copies each week , commissioned Taylor Nelson to carry out a random face to face survey , interviewing some 3,862 people across the country during July and August about their involvement with horses .
9 The old standards have decayed , the aristocracy no longer take the intellectual lead ; men of letters and booksellers are left face to face with a multitude of readers whose intellectual appetites and tastes are emancipated from all direct influence and control .
10 I have not seen her alone face to face all the time we have been here and when I do see her in company she is wont to turn from me .
11 But er , I think the advice that erm , Mr is giving us about who we talk to and when to talk to them , how we get to get together and present a united face to government is a , is a good suggestion , and I 'd like to propose that er , we accept that .
12 planned face to face information flow with feedback is the most effective vehicle for exchanging understanding but supporting media can improve effectiveness if appropriate and justified
13 The French boy turned on one of his fierce expressions of shock and outrage and leaned back from the waist to subject the American boy 's now-blushing face to pantomime scrutiny .
14 All data were collected using a standardised face to face interview by one of the authors ( MRG ) in the endoscopy unit or on the ward .
15 To such men it was unthinkable to meet such a fellow face to face and across a table on equal terms even though it might no longer be diplomatic for an official of the Federation to admit this in public .
16 This interest can best be served by all responsible members of the scientific community beginning and sustaining an objective , scientific , honourable , and openminded face to face dialogue based on the actual and official tenets of clinical ecology/environmental medicine .
17 Interviewing is a special face to face encounter which comes in a number of different guises .
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