Example sentences of "faced with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midlife is a time to come to terms with the past so that the future can be faced with no unfinished business to block the way ahead . |
| 2 | Their supply ships were held up by contrary winds , and Edward was faced with no alternative but an inglorious retreat to England . |
| 3 | In many situations , actors are faced with no clear rules for action , or the action may be hard to sustain . |
| 4 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 5 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 6 | If you are not ready to deal with the problem of alcohol misuse if and when it occurs , one day you could be faced with a crisis . |
| 7 | The first example of equipment redeployment came in 1982 when the then director ( Cyril Bleasdale ) , faced with a serious downturn on Great Western sub-sector services out of Paddington , decided to move ten HSTs to the Midland main line so that a badly needed improvement could be implemented on this potentially profitable and much neglected route . |
| 8 | When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself . |
| 9 | Granted that there is an absolute need for humanistic values to prevail in a neo-utilitarian and materialistic age , one is faced with a significant divergence in the nature of these values . |
| 10 | Faced with a persistent excess of expenditure over income , they may cut student numbers or they may increase income . |
| 11 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 12 | Moreover , to predict that an incoming Labour government would surely be faced with a mess far greater than any previous inheritance by a new administration is a double-edged weapon . |
| 13 | Epoch says you should withdraw your attention when faced with a tiresome child . |
| 14 | Later Eichmann , faced with a lack of rail transport , began a programme of deportations by foot — ‘ death marches ’ along a 120-mile route from Budapest to the Austrian border at Hegyeshalom . |
| 15 | Faced with a demand that could no longer be met , the Moscow city fathers 10 days ago limited purchases to one item per person . |
| 16 | After a disastrous year for British producers , they are now faced with a unique opportunity to capitalise on the benefits of an industry with the highest standards in the world . |
| 17 | Suddenly , the Fed is faced with a plethora of legislative amendments to curb its independence . |
| 18 | ‘ In this country you are faced with a stubborn and self-assured lady who sees it as one of her tasks to protect the regime , ’ Mr Mbeki said . |
| 19 | The international marketer , therefore , is still faced with a multitude of differing legal environments , about which information may be difficult to obtain , and once obtained may be very difficult to interpret . |
| 20 | Again we are faced with a shift in cultural values . |
| 21 | The reader is faced with a renunciation both of the sexuality bound up with primitive rites and , for the moment at least , of modern sexuality . |
| 22 | Faced with a fact that was visually undeniable I was snared in the total impossibility of ‘ understanding ’ it . |
| 23 | The Attlee governments were faced with a complexity of economic and political problems which should perhaps spare them , above all modern British governments , the condescension of posterity . |
| 24 | Laing acknowledges that the up-and-coming generation of managers are faced with a much faster-paced world than operated in most of his life , but he is not convinced it is any more difficult to be an executive today than in the past . |
| 25 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 26 | In later years , offered the objection that celibacy is not always possible , Lewis the radio evangelist was to be quite unambiguous : ‘ faced with an optional question in an examination paper , one considers whether one can do it or not ; faced with a compulsory question , one must do the best one can … |
| 27 | I recommend it particularly for Sunday lunch with visitors from abroad whose eagerness to try a proper British pudding might grow a little faint if faced with a hefty suet pudding or steamed sponge . |
| 28 | One suspects that Ibsen , faced with a character like Quisling , would immediately have applied to join the Norwegian Resistance . |
| 29 | Readers will soon discern , on page 42 if not earlier , that in the personality of Quisling they are faced with a thundering , breathtaking , unsurpassable bore : ‘ He lacked a sense of humour to give him balance . ’ |
| 30 | But , ‘ if , on the other hand , we kept the scheme too narrow , it would fail in its purpose and … we might be faced with a much more severe problem . ’ |