Example sentences of "was face with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 the second largest union , the AUEW , was faced with the threat of expulsion from the TUC for breaking the policy . |
| 2 | Mr Li was faced with the task of trying to make sense of China 's eighth five-year plan and a ten-year ‘ development strategy ’ . |
| 3 | On his accession Henry VII was faced with the task of restoring the reign of law in the forests as elsewhere . |
| 4 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Having decided to improve our kitchen floor by laying ceramic floor tiles , I was faced with the problem of cutting them to shape around door architraves , etc . |
| 6 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 7 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 8 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |
| 9 | Recently , I was faced with the task of transferring a set of thirty lessons of Britain 's first commercial language course , the Linguaphone French course of 1906 , onto tape . |
| 10 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 11 | In the 1760's when Wilson was asked to paint Welsh landscape , perhaps in response to the Celtic revival , he was faced with the problem of how to paint bare mountains . |
| 12 | I was commissioned by Cambridge University Press specifically to base a book on this review and sent a copy of the manuscript to Bernard Carr a year before publication , I was faced with the difficult task of dividing credit between Carr and Rees , and the original authors whose papers they reviewed . |
| 13 | The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) was faced with the opportunity of regenerating an area , which no matter how physically derelict , had an unfulfilled development potential the equal of any piece of real estate anywhere in the world . |
| 14 | Once again Jesus was faced with the problem of answering . |
| 15 | It was as if an addictive drug had been withdrawn and I was faced with the reality of life and had forgotten what to do with it . |
| 16 | The lifeboat was faced with the same conditions as the Eyemouth lifeboat , and the same difficulties in finding a safe haven . |
| 17 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 18 | The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did . |
| 19 | With the increasing irritation I was feeling for my lover , I was faced with the realization that the early promise of happiness infinitely extended was dramati-cally receding . |
| 20 | 604 this court was faced with the curious situation that by a series of decisions , each moving almost imperceptibly further forward than the last , it had created a rule of law for which , if one stood back and looked at the matter afresh , there was absolutely no justification . |
| 21 | Now he was faced with the problem of how to promote an airline which was forbidden under US law to sell tickets or advertise its service until the CAB and Federal Aviation Authority had given their approval . |
| 22 | Thus Cuba , which for nearly half a century had run its economy on the basis of near-total reliance on the United States , was faced with the need to find a new market for 700,000 tonnes of sugar and an alternative source of oil supplies . |
| 23 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |
| 24 | In the 550's Chlothar himself was faced with the rebellion of his own son Chramn . |
| 25 | Many times , in the middle of the night when she could not sleep , she was faced with the slightly guilty realization that she was behaving rather badly , but in the daytime it did n't seem to matter . |
| 26 | Maxton was faced with the prospect of being the only remaining ILP Member if he did not withdraw his continued opposition to re-affiliation . |
| 27 | Over these , over those few hours many times Pilate was faced with the Lord Jesus , and he recognized who he was . |