Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 2 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 3 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 4 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 5 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 6 | Clients will not be allowed access to information about other private citizens which is in their file — either descriptive material or the fact that someone is the source of a report — unless the other person is happy that it can be shared . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it is important that every member of a firm should be familiar with at least the basic arrangements for its administration and should not be denied access to information about the activities of the firm at any level , subject always to their giving reasonable notice . |
| 8 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 9 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 10 | Six people were found shot to death in an apartment in the crime-ridden South Bronx district of New York yesterday in a modern St Valentine 's Day massacre , police said . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 12 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 13 | An otherwise empty space , having the approximate dimensions of a master bedroom , is piled floor to ceiling with boxes and envelopes and packages . |
| 14 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 15 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |