Example sentences of "faced with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority . |
| 2 | Each generation has no doubt been faced with the problem of assimilating the family into the farm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The children wanted sensible traditional meals and the contractors were faced with the problem of responding to demands in improvement in quality of delivery and organisation rather than an assumed change in taste for junk foods . |
| 6 | Anyone buying the house is faced with the problem of demolishing all the extensions if it is ever to be restored to its former glory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So people were increasingly being faced with the problem of lots more dog mess close to home and how to dispose of it ! |
| 9 | Even when increased authenticity might be judged to be desirable on motivational grounds , one is faced with the problem that the process of learning depends on the recognition of underlying regularities , on the identification of salient and essential features from all the accidental complexities of actual behaviour . |
| 10 | All countries are faced with the problem of how to respond to the rapidly growing demand for health care from their populations . |
| 11 | Once again Jesus was faced with the problem of answering . |
| 12 | For just as Marx , when faced with the problem ‘ How does man make his history ? ’ replied with another question , ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ , so the proposal that the economic organisation of a society determines its superstructure should prompt us to ask how the base itself is determined . |
| 13 | This sort of argument is so commonly used in the social sciences that it almost passes unnoticed ; but as soon as one stops to think about it one is faced with the problem in hand . |
| 14 | On the other hand , in slipping the curve into the picture , however subtle this may be , one is faced with the problem of people . |
| 15 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 16 | But officers were then immediately faced with the problem of how to implement the decision through DHAs not convinced that it could be done . |
| 17 | One reason for this is that women ( and men , of course ) are often faced with the problem of negotiating contradictory or conflicting conceptions of themselves . |
| 18 | In this subject you are not faced with the problem of telling or showing children how to draw and paint . |
| 19 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the records are processed in a sequence that can not be predetermined , we are faced with the problem that we know the key or control number of the record but have no indication of its location in storage . |
| 22 | The problem here is that , for good compositional reasons , one needs to keep in a section of the curve into the picture , however subtle this may be , one is faced with the problem of people . |
| 23 | The contractor is always faced with the problem of getting work and maintaining turnover . |
| 24 | The developer is also faced with the problem of determining the Optimum size of his land bank . |
| 25 | ‘ In today 's world everyone is faced with the problem of having to confront and adjust to change and uncertainty . |
| 26 | Given that the market has failed to produce the information , government decision-makers are faced with the problem of valuing social costs and benefits from evidence other than direct market prices . |
| 27 | Some readers exhibit conservatism over the adoption of new information technology , and many librarians , faced with the problem of the need for archival storage of scientific data — an intrinsic feature of the nature and use of geological and botanical literature , for example — and knowing the costs incurred in data conversion as each new technological advance occurs , will choose to retain paper , and postpone decisions on technology . |
| 28 | Unlike HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II were faced with the problem of specifying explicit schemes for controlling the flow of information between knowledge sources . |
| 29 | This does not mean that historians are alone faced with the problem of disambiguation . |
| 30 | The Health department is also faced with the problem of freezing its spending plans at the moment . |