Example sentences of "[vb pp] to face [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 So it seems to me that you can not do analysis in a group because by definition the ego of a person in a group is , is detracted from , whereas in individual psychoanalysis and ideally the ego of the person is added to and enlarged to give them more competence by being made to face up to its repressions .
2 The EEC was attempting to do within its transition stage of fifteen years what Benelux did in three : and yet it was only at the end of its transitional period that Benelux had had to face up to serious difficulties in seeking to achieve its ambitions .
3 Second is that , as the costs of developing the NFP has risen , many firms have had to face up to hard choices of priority about where to concentrate their efforts .
4 Other countries have had to face up to that problem .
5 THE FAMILY of Arthur Thompson , sen , has had to face up to many tragedies .
6 There are many adults who 've had to face up to this problem and have , in actual fact , overcome it Susan Hampshire is one ; I believe Hans Anderson , also , has suffered from this difficulty — that with help they can overcome this and live a normal life .
7 A : Well , I suppose I would — that would be the ideal situation , but I think you 've got to face up to the reality of the whole thing .
8 ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’
9 You guys have got to face up to things .
10 We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports .
11 I mean I think that it 's erm a good idea for members to see what firemen and I 'm thinking in particular really of fire fight fighters I should n't say firemen , fire fighters , we 've got ladies , erm , who are retained and can be at their du place of work one minute , and twenty minutes afterwards they 've got to face up to ho horrendous sights , erm , it must have a tr traumatic effect on them .
12 Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself .
13 Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers .
14 Here , while journalists strive earnestly to shed their previous role as mere mouthpieces of dictatorial regimes , they are forced to face up to the enormous financial difficulties involved in surviving in the market-place , without the comfortable support they formerly received from the state . ’
15 She kept trying to tell herself that his was just another face in a long line of faces , but the nearness of him was agonising , and she was forced to face up to a bitter realisation .
16 By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man .
17 While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s .
18 As water engineers have begun to face up to the problems of crumbling sewers , they have become concerned too , with the effect of holes in their other , parallel supply system , the water mains .
19 So I have to ask has anyone , and I underline anyone , who talks about economic policies , recessions , recoveries and jobs , yet begun to face up to the way everything depends on growth as before and even more growth than before .
20 If , furthermore , these flaps had muscles at their base they could be tilted to face squarely to the sun 's rays .
21 Sadly , a whole generation of political leaders — and even some of their successors today , if what we have heard in the past two days is right — have failed to face up to that fact .
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