Example sentences of "[be] faced with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have had to practically beg the man to cooperate with him , and now be faced with the God-awful mess he 'd made of it . |
| 2 | But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation . |
| 3 | The government concluded that if local voters were to appreciate the consequences of voting for councils that wished to spend more on local services every voter should be faced with the consequential bill — even those on low incomes . |
| 4 | Her emotional journey is that of many women artists : ‘ I would be faced with the enormous problem of re-inventing myself ! ’ |
| 5 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |
| 6 | Those authorities continued to be faced with the same issues of escalating costs and deteriorating quality of service within the institutions . |
| 7 | All major protective coatings manufacturers will be faced with the same issues . |
| 8 | In his affidavit , dated 27 September , Kahn alleges that ‘ remaining Velcro minority shareholders will be faced with the unpleasant choice of receiving either a grossly unfair cashout price of $21.75 per share based upon artificially depressed market prices , or equity in VRNV , a company which will not be traded on NASDAQ or any other stock exchange requiring the necessity for public filings and resulting in an illiquid market ’ . |
| 9 | In the absence of such agreement , the partners will be faced with the unattractive alternatives of : ( 1 ) concluding appropriate agreements ad hoc , quite possibly under the pressure of burgeoning dispute between the partners ; or ( 2 ) accepting regulation of the affairs of the firm under the Partnership Act which will ensure that where agreement proves impossible dissolution will follow . |
| 10 | He claims that when oil companies were faced with the contradictory demand for speedy exploration and extraction and the requirements of safety they , with successive British governments ' blessing , chose speed . |
| 11 | SAAB were faced with the same difficulties as Volvo in recruiting staff in the 1970s , and they too have moved to a system of group working with job rotation in many sections of the plant . |
| 12 | For now Aristotelians were faced with the same problem with respect to Jupiter and its moons . |
| 13 | Salford and Stirling were faced with the worst haemorrhages . |
| 14 | Thousands of pounds of damage was caused , and fire crews were faced with the added danger of having to remove gas welding cylinders which were overheating . |
| 15 | The fact is that Russian publishers producing books on art are faced with the real threat of closure . |
| 16 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 17 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Comparing his York findings with Booth 's in London , Rowntree concluded that ‘ we are faced with the startling probability that from 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the town population of the United Kingdom are living in poverty ’ . |
| 20 | All academic disciplines or areas of study are faced with the initial problem of providing the layperson or newcomer to the discipline with some idea as to what their subject ‘ is all about ’ . |
| 21 | Here , parents may provide valuable financial assistance to their married children in the early stages of their family life-cycle , when the head of the household is beginning a career , and when the young couples are faced with the initial expenses of setting up a home and providing for young children ( Bell , 1968 ) . |
| 22 | Suppose an industrial salesperson working for an adhesives manufacturer is faced with the following objection : ‘ Why should I buy your new adhesive gun when my present method of applying adhesive — direct from the tube — is perfectly satisfactory ? ’ |
| 23 | The teacher is faced with the persistent problem of how to help children feel the action has started when the truth is they do not have either enough factual or empathetic resources to identify with the historical situation . |
| 24 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 25 | ‘ One is faced with the difficult task of defining the limits of the phrase ‘ the expression of such accused or convicted person 's thoughts , feelings , opinions , or emotions regarding such crime . ’ |
| 26 | How does the behaviour of different people compare when each is faced with the same problem ? |
| 27 | The scientist who proposes new interpretations or principles is rather like the fictional detective ( they may exist in reality too ) who is faced with the same evidence as the reader and the police , but sees that it forms a different pattern when seen from the right angle . |
| 28 | The accountant is faced with the same problems regarding the correct allocation of cost to the current or following month for payment certificates near or straddling the month end , as was discussed under directly employed labour . |
| 29 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 30 | Theodora was faced with the usual dilemma of such contrivances , did one hammer on the outer door ( there seemed to be no bell ) and risk not being heard or did one penetrate to the inner door proper and risk being judged intrusive ? |