Example sentences of "face with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 2 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 3 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 4 | Further economic adjustments were announced on Dec. 10 but faced with the continuing collapse of the austral Rapanelli resigned as Economy Minister on Dec. 15 and was replaced by González [ see p. 37118 ] . |
| 5 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
| 6 | But faced with the dilemma of what would be best for her four young children in the meantime Nikki , from Mountmichael Park , had considered trying to find someone to temporarily look after them . |
| 7 | Does the Minister recognise that the people of Wolverhampton do not regard the Secretary of State for the Environment as environmentally benign , certainly over the problems that they face with the new standard spending assessment announced in the past few days — |
| 8 | The only , a the residents have , are of course , once again this goes back to this , the problems that we 're facing with the er local government reorganization debate , are at a loss to do er erm to find that the on-street parking provision is the county 's responsibility , off-street parking provision is the district 's responsibility and actions by , by the district are in fact causing problems for us with this . |
| 9 | Those are the types of question that need answers before we know what sort of chaos we are going to face with the council tax . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most usual description of aesthetic experience in the last hundred years has occurred when the critic has been faced with the need to react to one isolated work of art . |
| 11 | Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy . |
| 12 | Already in 1926 ( The New Republic , 30 June ) Tate was obliged — faced with the aridity in diction and imagery of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — to concede that ‘ It is possible that he has nothing more to say in poetry ’ . |
| 13 | County 's heroes were their midfielders , Mick Matthews and Andy Thorpe ; faced with the glitter of Nigel Spackman and Peter Reid they challenged for control throughout . |
| 14 | The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority . |
| 15 | Faced with the possibility of their contributions to the AFBD doubling to £8m a year , members may find a merger less undignified after all . |
| 16 | Faced with the loss of their previous high-performance computer in 1987 , the university got backing from the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Department of Trade and Industry to purchase a large Computing Surface to serve both as a research vehicle and a flagship site for Meiko . |
| 17 | In this context , although Mr Lawson supports the ERM , he too would be , no doubt , a narrow-minded nationalist when faced with the prospect of European Monetary Union , as would increasing numbers of German economists who argue on the basis of economic research that EMU is not necessarily an attractive option . |
| 18 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 19 | Faced with the decision of raising less money and hoping for a successful issue or shelving the flotation altogether , Ronnie Frost , chairman , opted for the cheaper share price . |
| 20 | Faced with the prospect of a stream of disclosures as the general election approaches , Mr Gandhi 's advisers have apparently concluded that their best defence is also to attack the opposition with the corruption stick . |
| 21 | In 1985 the second largest union , the AUEW , was faced with the threat of expulsion from the TUC for breaking the policy . |
| 22 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 23 | At home in February 1981 she gave way and provided money for twenty-three uneconomic coal pits to remain open , when faced with the threat of a coal strike . |
| 24 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 25 | Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese . |
| 26 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 27 | Mr De Haan said the original reason for going public was his father 's concern that as a private company , with no market in its shares , the family might one day be faced with the prospect of having to sell the entire business to meet death duties . |
| 28 | Never before were they faced with the threat of losing substantial numbers of accounts . |
| 29 | She looked both wary and defiant ; well , people often did , faced with the police , but it was an unusual combination to find in a girl from the confident middle class . |
| 30 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |