Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] face [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in Bolton , where an assisted candidate was selected by an association with a large working-class element , he found himself facing a Liberal rather than a Labour opponent and went down to defeat . |
| 2 | CAPENHURST foreman John Albino found himself facing the cameras and some tough questions recently . |
| 3 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 4 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 5 | Germany found itself facing an expansionist Europe and a booming industry . |
| 6 | Sierra Leone 's 3,000-man army found itself facing an intensifying struggle throughout May against forces of the Liberian rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , despite denials of any involvement by the NPFL leader Charles Taylor [ see also above . |
| 7 | Lucy went through the door to find herself facing a tall , dark-haired woman whose attire breathed sophisticated elegance . |
| 8 | A hand falling on Ace 's shoulder startled her back to reality , and she found herself facing a dripping Benny . |
| 9 | She found herself facing a glass-panelled door , with the luminous dot of a bell set in its frame . |
| 10 | Choosing a left turn , she soon found herself facing a blank door which might , for all she knew , lead to the cuttings library . |
| 11 | She chose left , descended a further long flight and found herself facing a closed door marked ‘ Fire Exit ’ . |
| 12 | Turning around , she found herself facing the dark , handsome-looking woman who 'd arrived with Ross Aldridge and whom Diane assumed to be his wife . |
| 13 | On command , the vans raced to the side of the road , the cordon parted , and the demonstrators found themselves facing a mounted police charge at full gallop . |
| 14 | Once inside , they found themselves facing a glass door , which gave on to the college garden . |
| 15 | Now , in the bitter 1980s they found themselves facing the impact of annual cuts in real funding , and pressures to apply new codes of managerial techniques and short-term profit-making out of tune with the traditional practices of British universities . |
| 16 | Around 11.30am Cumberland deployed his four marching columns into three lines abreast and the troops moved forward in their battle formation until , 500 yards [ 460 m ] ahead , they found themselves facing the rebel lines , stretching from Culloden park on the rebel left to the walled Culwiniac farm enclosure on their right . |
| 17 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 18 | I also found myself facing an astonished mandroid guard , who began to reach for his holstered stun-gun . |
| 19 | If we now consider the relations he posits between them we find ourselves facing a comparable problem ; although he posits numerous interconnec-tions between the components of social formations , he neither explains how he arrives at them nor describes them in any detail . |
| 20 | Reunited with the Doctor in the capital city of Millenius , Ian finds himself facing a charge of murder amidst a civilisation believing a defendant guilty until proven innocent . |
| 21 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |
| 22 | Now Chancellor Norman Lamont will find himself facing a full-scale sterling crisis when he flies home from his Italian holiday next week . |
| 23 | Such frightening costs undermine the credibility of the FDIC , because , if a banking crisis were to start , the government might find itself facing a credit crunch of its own . |
| 24 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
| 25 | Today 's new mother may well find herself facing the additional difficulty of coping alone with her new-born infant — whether due to choice or circumstance . |
| 26 | Couples in this kind of situation , suddenly confronted by each other 's moods , prejudices , foibles , and , indeed , continued presence day after day , may find themselves facing a great new emotional challenge at a time in life when they thought they knew everything they needed to know about their relationship . |
| 27 | Many observers supposed that the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 would force the Junkers to embark on a programme of liberalisation and reform lest they should find themselves facing a similar threat . |
| 28 | In particular , those who borrowed more than was perhaps prudent , based on the expectation of a continuing rise in the price of property , may find themselves facing the twin problems of a capital loss and higher mortgage repayments . |
| 29 | Do not deflect the opponent so that his open side faces you or you may well find yourself facing a powerful reverse punch fuelled by the fall forward . |
| 30 | You can find yourself facing a much larger debt if the pound has weakened against that foreign currency in the interim . |