Example sentences of "[conj] faced with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 2 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 3 | For added storage , a shelf or drawers could be fitted underneath , the drawers being made with a d-i-y drawer kit and faced with the same material as the rest of the wardrobe . |
| 4 | It sees government as faced with the same task of managing and controlling spending as any large business . |
| 5 | For example , when faced with the large-scale Vietminh attacks of early 1951 the personal intervention of the chief US military adviser on Vietnam with General MacArthur in Japan secured the delivery of American napalm , which in turn allowed de Lattre to claim his victory . |
| 6 | Then , when faced with the negative answer , ‘ Really … ? ’ |
| 7 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even less is known about the strategies ( the choice of technology , product or market ) they followed when faced with the increasing loss of markets at home and abroad . |
| 10 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 11 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
| 12 | In making up their minds what to do when faced with the expected no-confidence motion from Labour therefore , the Liberals were put in a most unenviable position . |
| 13 | It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years . |
| 14 | The mood would seem to be temporary ; judging by the ever-decreasing number of Trabants on eastern Germany 's roads no one , when faced with the superior horsepower of Volkswagen , Audi and Mercedes , is that nostalgic . |
| 15 | The standard reaction when faced with the latest prediction from Peters , one of the main catalysts behind the 80s obsession with quality and service , is simply to dismiss him — generously . |
| 16 | However , a realisation of the required changes is perhaps the biggest hurdle to overcome particularly when faced with the considerable barrage of recent legislation and the tight time-scale in which it has had to be implemented . |
| 17 | When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach . |
| 18 | The conduct of the ministers was provocative , but Taylor 's treatment of them was more severe than that of his Archbishop , John Bramhall , who when faced with the same situation devised a form of letters , acceptable to the Presbyterians , by which he supplied them with the qualifications which they lacked , so that they were able to retain their livings . |
| 19 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |