Example sentences of "face the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Human pedestrians faced the same treatment , but knowing the rules they were quicker off the mark . |
2 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
3 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
4 | Renault 's new partners , Volvo of Sweden , faced the same problem at the same time , needing a new gearbox for their new 850 GLT ( which goes on sale here next month ) . |
5 | Other towns in the Midlands , towns such as Coventry for example , faced the same problem of how to get building land for their physical expansion . |
6 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
7 | Nevertheless the government faced the same problem that every other government had faced with the NHS , trying to maintain a balance between a centrally controlled budget and escalating demands , demands shaped by the professional providers of services and the inescapable needs of an ageing population . |
8 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
9 | Any teacher found guilty of leaking examination questions faced the same penalty . |
10 | Bell noted : ‘ We faced the same quandary clubs rapidly going through divisions encounter with their XV-a-side fixture list . |
11 | But industries right across the UK faced the same risk . |
12 | AS , in thee matches , they both faced the same bowlers on the same pitches , it may be deduced that , as batsmen , they are of roughly equal merit . |
13 | The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same . |
14 | His plans in ruins , he is now reduced , Micawber-like , to hoping something will turn up before his players face the All Blacks in five short weeks . |
15 | The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise . |
16 | Remember that the hands both face the same way in contradistinction to the piano . |
17 | When price-taking producers and consumers face the same prices , marginal costs and marginal benefits are equated to prices ( by the independent actions of individual producers and consumers ) and hence to each other . |
18 | Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card . |
19 | as if there were n't enough problems for the leftwinger trying to give up , we also face the same difficulties as the ordinary , apolitical smoker does . |
20 | I face the same problems as a structural engineer . |
21 | Such issues which touch upon the merits can no more be avoided under option four than under option two ; both options address many of the same issues , and face the same problems . |
22 | Will the Minister commit himself and the Government to the development of the coal industry in Scotland and say more about the Government 's intentions for Monktonhall , lest Yorkshire face the same problems as Scotland , as the Bishop of Durham made clear this weekend ? |
23 | All designers of hi fi gramophones face the same problem . |
24 | And there may be much truth in this — all professions in the US face the same problem , because a small group of lawyers are using the tort system to benefit not only their client but themselves , often operating on a contingency fee basis with no cost to the client . |
25 | They all face the same problem : their strength traditionally lay in parish life , traditional communities , and what the sociologists call ‘ cultural embeddedness ’ . |
26 | Holt and Harris both , in the end , face the same problem . |
27 | Other Western countries face the same problem of natural monopoly in these industries . |
28 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
29 | One allocation that would be both efficient and equitable in this sense would be an initial endowment at 1 where both A and B have the same X and Y. Since they face the same budget constraint , each can have what the other has so that any trades away from equal allocation to the contract curve must meet the reverse allocation test illustrated as part ( b ) of the figure . |
30 | There , it might be argued , Merchiston Publishing , and our students , face the same dilemmas as many commercial publishers , particularly in the STM ( Science , Technology , Medicine ) field . |