Example sentences of "faced with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority . |
| 6 | Faced with the possibility of their contributions to the AFBD doubling to £8m a year , members may find a merger less undignified after all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1985 the second largest union , the AUEW , was faced with the threat of expulsion from the TUC for breaking the policy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Never before were they faced with the threat of losing substantial numbers of accounts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Faced with the 1979 oil shock and recession , America did not flinch from deregulation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Faced with the poll tax , most of its modern citizenry have sounded distinctly unphilosophical these past few weeks . |
| 25 | Mr Li was faced with the task of trying to make sense of China 's eighth five-year plan and a ten-year ‘ development strategy ’ . |
| 26 | Faced with the evidently troublesome distinction between things and ideas , Berkeley in effect collapses it ; he concludes that ideas are things . |
| 27 | Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child , she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive : ‘ Do whatever he tells you ’ ( John 2.5 ) . |
| 28 | We are now faced with the question : From what did Jesus save us ? |
| 29 | We 're still faced with the mortgage and school fees . |
| 30 | Faced with the stark reality of a choice between jobs or no jobs , the majority had elected to work . |