Example sentences of "stare us [prep] the " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | That when someone — one man like Dr. Briant — starts to meddle with the functions of the power that is God , disaster stares us in the face . |
2 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
3 | It is staring us in the face . |
4 | With those facts staring us in the face , it was monstrous and absurd to propose to sink a large outlay of money in the purchase of ground in this neighbourhood , and in the erection of new Government buildings . |
5 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
6 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
7 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
8 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
9 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
10 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
11 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |