Example sentences of "face the same " in BNC.

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1 Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel .
2 Renault 's new partners , Volvo of Sweden , faced the same problem at the same time , needing a new gearbox for their new 850 GLT ( which goes on sale here next month ) .
3 ‘ If we had n't protested , the rest of the South-East faced the same . ’
4 Richie Collins faced the same theoretical conundrum that affected Michael Chang when he congratulated God on helping him to win a tennis match .
5 Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance .
6 But industries right across the UK faced the same risk .
7 To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own .
8 IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum .
9 AS , in thee matches , they both faced the same bowlers on the same pitches , it may be deduced that , as batsmen , they are of roughly equal merit .
10 The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same .
11 Other towns in the Midlands , towns such as Coventry for example , faced the same problem of how to get building land for their physical expansion .
12 Human pedestrians faced the same treatment , but knowing the rules they were quicker off the mark .
13 Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join .
14 During those years , both faced the same general economic and social changes — fluctuations of world trade , changing technology , changes in the nature of work , a demographic transition , the growth of nationalism in Europe and the growth of working class political consciousness and organization — but the outcome on the two societies was very different .
15 Any teacher found guilty of leaking examination questions faced the same penalty .
16 Nevertheless the government faced the same problem that every other government had faced with the NHS , trying to maintain a balance between a centrally controlled budget and escalating demands , demands shaped by the professional providers of services and the inescapable needs of an ageing population .
17 Bell noted : ‘ We faced the same quandary clubs rapidly going through divisions encounter with their XV-a-side fixture list .
18 Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card .
19 Reserve police in the RUC wear the same uniform , for all that an outsider can distinguish , and as a consequence face the same security risks , but most are marginalized by the restricted range of duties they perform and the short-term status of their contract .
20 Muslim girls face the same harsh oppression .
21 All designers of hi fi gramophones face the same problem .
22 as if there were n't enough problems for the leftwinger trying to give up , we also face the same difficulties as the ordinary , apolitical smoker does .
23 And there may be much truth in this — all professions in the US face the same problem , because a small group of lawyers are using the tort system to benefit not only their client but themselves , often operating on a contingency fee basis with no cost to the client .
24 They all face the same problem : their strength traditionally lay in parish life , traditional communities , and what the sociologists call ‘ cultural embeddedness ’ .
25 There , it might be argued , Merchiston Publishing , and our students , face the same dilemmas as many commercial publishers , particularly in the STM ( Science , Technology , Medicine ) field .
26 I face the same problems as a structural engineer .
27 Holt and Harris both , in the end , face the same problem .
28 The crying continued after that , and continues , but now with other parents who face the same kinds of problems .
29 Such issues which touch upon the merits can no more be avoided under option four than under option two ; both options address many of the same issues , and face the same problems .
30 Remember that the hands both face the same way in contradistinction to the piano .
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