Example sentences of "face the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I face the same problems as a structural engineer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The crying continued after that , and continues , but now with other parents who face the same kinds of problems . |
| 13 | ‘ We face the same risks day in day out for years on end . ’ |
| 14 | No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days . |
| 15 | It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school . |
| 16 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
| 17 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 18 | Now we have a corps of locally born and educated doctors with foreign sounding names in search of a medical career facing the same circumstances others faced before . |
| 19 | Here were people from the field facing the same issues . |
| 20 | We are concerned that rehabilitation may face the same problems as re-introduction or re-stocking in conservation — difficult , expensive , and the results often uncertain . |
| 21 | It would seem that Harwood 's product might face the same difficulties . |
| 22 | Jermaine Foster , 19 , and Leondre Henderson , 17 , will face the same charges . |
| 23 | Tomorrow at the sprawling Ariake Tennis Centre here a changed , but not new , British team will face the same opponents , desperate to restore some of their lost pride . |
| 24 | Smith went on Ireland 's recent tour of North America and the stand-off is now hoping to gain selection for Leinster in a push for a place in the Irish side to face the All Blacks next month . |
| 25 | ‘ A consultant should be able to help you because , unlike you , he has faced the same problems elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Steg needs every trick in the book-worm to make sure that his sprogs are fed — at which point our horrid hero moves to the next level and faces the same problems again . |