Example sentences of "face with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not in Daisy 's nature to bitch , but faced with Ricky 's almost clinical detachment , everything came pouring out — Perdita 's endless tantrums , her impossible demands , her spite to the other children . |
| 2 | CDC has already spent a great deal of time and money on an effort to stabilise the product , but faced with pressure from customers trying to use it , is hoping to speed the process up . |
| 3 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 4 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 5 | I believe that the Company can face with confidence the challenges that lie ahead . |
| 6 | Take , for example , the problems that the electronic publishing industry is currently facing with fonts . |
| 7 | Was the gesture a tribute to an old woman facing with dignity and courage a last tragedy ? |
| 8 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 9 | They can not become emotionally involved , and if faced with difficulties they withdraw their interest because their motivation and commitment are often very superficial . |
| 10 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 11 | However , we are still faced with proposals for unsuitable new developments threatening the setting of more outstanding buildings ; and hundreds of listed buildings and churches stand empty and neglected , and at risk . |
| 12 | When faced with proposals which offer ‘ a reorientation of communications cutting across traditional routes and boundaries ’ , which in English means building roads over people 's houses , and that routes for these roads are represented by a squiggle from a felt tip pen , which then is incorporated as the project logo , we must begin to wonder if the DED and DOE are poking fun at the communities likely to suffer . |
| 13 | When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma . |
| 14 | But RAF chiefs faced with defence cutbacks have decided that it will shut after all . |
| 15 | When faced with threats to its broadcasting monopoly or to its programme policy from , say , either wireless exchanges ( the precursors of today 's cable systems ) or overseas commercial radio stations , it was only natural that Reith would turn to the state to guarantee the monopoly . |
| 16 | There were a series of confrontations with authorities , like Liverpool , faced with threats of central government taking over direct control of services . |
| 17 | Mr Gaught tells of problems with the transitional reduction scheme , designed to help those faced with bills much higher than the previous community charge . |
| 18 | Faced with drought , the Las Vegas Valley Water District has made 146 applications for access to 26 underground basins as far as 250 miles away and as much as 1,000 feet below the surface . |
| 19 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 20 | He was of a somewhat anxious and dependent temperament , especially when faced with persecution . |
| 21 | Too little has been spent on maintaining the system in the past and the industry , faced with signs of accelerating failure rates , does not yet appear to be doing enough to contain the rate of decay . |
| 22 | So when faced with pay demands in some public services Chancellor Denis Healey did not print the extra money but went strictly by the book . |
| 23 | There is currently an unresolved contention by the landowners that there is no public right of way along the gill , and they are probably right ; the County Council , called upon to settle the issue , is faced with evidence from myself and others that the gill has been visited without challenge since Victorian times . |
| 24 | Faced with evidence to the contrary , which the government of the day either believed or at least affected to believe , they resort to describing the reports of arms , oaths and plans for insurrection sent in by government spies as exaggerations or fabrications , especially those of Bent , from Lancashire : " The Home Office Papers contain numbers of illiterate communications from him , full of lurid hints of the approaching outbursts of the lower orders , encouraged by mysterious beings in higher places . " |
| 25 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 26 | Ten years on , and having lost more than 150,000 manufacturing jobs in the northern region alone , manufacturing is faced with yet another recession , only this time , far from leanness and fitness , it is faced with malnutrition and is dangerously near the point of no return . |
| 27 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 28 | And even if you 're not contemplating any of those things , as I 've said you 're still going to be faced with decisions about goods that you want to buy and services that you want to buy for your home . |
| 29 | When faced with decisions on the spending of national resources on research , there are two types of choice to make ( Weinberg 1963 ) . |
| 30 | The tops of the tables are constructed with lippings of solid ebony , tongued onto MDF faced with 3mm sawcut veneer . |