Example sentences of "face the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 2 | Then I faced the thought that by now he could be dead . |
| 3 | The situation which faced the Court of Appeal in this case is by no means unprecedented ; apart from Smith-Bryant another relatively recent example is D. ( 1986 ) 8 Cr.App.R . |
| 4 | Butler also faced the court for non-payment of fines totalling over £500 . |
| 5 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 6 | In the Soering case the European Court of Human Rights faced the problem of conflicting treaties . |
| 7 | In one of them the visitors faced the problem of the relationship between the staff and a head of department being the subject of a libel action , and a refusal by the staff to meet the visitors in the presence of the head of the department ( resolved by the visiting party member who chaired the meeting allowing the head of department to stay until he had to leave ‘ for another meeting ’ ) . |
| 8 | The boy carried her out into the snow and pushed her into the ground , turning her so that she faced the tent and the cluster of trees that formed their crude and failing shelter . |
| 9 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
| 10 | Kicking was also decisive for the Northerners when they faced the B.C. President 's XV in Victoria , winning 17–15 with a last minute try by wing Simon Johnston after four penalties by fullback Nick Robinson had nullified the goal and a try scored by their opponents . |
| 11 | I walked in and faced the desk . |
| 12 | Large houses faced the lake at intervals of miles . |
| 13 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 14 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 15 | Crestfallen Mona sought comfort on the arm of her banker husband Mohammed Shourjabi as she faced the cameras afterwards . |
| 16 | Oxfordshire , who have n't won a game in the history of the competition , faced the might of Lancashire , who 've won the trophy five times . |
| 17 | It would not be long before de Lattre faced the divisions of Giap 's new model army in the set-piece battles which the Vietminh were prepared to risk in a premature general offensive ; and it was in more conventional war of this kind where US assistance and particularly US munitions would apparently tip the scale . |
| 18 | Inner city areas faced the threat of settlement by immigrants or of demolition and removal to overspill areas . |
| 19 | In the aftermath of the July rising the Republic faced the threat not only of military overthrow but also of its own disintegration . |
| 20 | The move which was expected to take effect immediately , followed a warning by US Secretary of State James Baker , recently returned from a tour of Russia , Byelarus , Ukraine and Kazakhstan , that the former Soviet republics faced the threat of an imminent social explosion as a result of food shortages . |
| 21 | I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river . |
| 22 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 23 | A young woman would have to have her foot reconstructed , and she faced the possibility of amputation . |
| 24 | Geoffrey faced the plainclothes officer . |
| 25 | Situated on the Down platform , the accommodation consisted of four rooms including two waiting rooms with corner fireplaces and a booking office with an iron stove and pipe chimney while a wall clock , outside the booking office , faced the platform . |
| 26 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 27 | She was breathlessly aware of him and she walked across to the fence that faced the field she could see from her room and stood there looking out into the distance . |
| 28 | All shelters had to be altered so that queues faced the trams , new signs were erected and the traditional round stop-signs disappeared . |
| 29 | As at all his power stations , Scott faced the building in a fine Worcestershire brick that has weathered to a lovely pinky-brown . |
| 30 | ‘ It is time they showed up and faced the music , ’ he said . |