Example sentences of "faced up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 2 | Would Mr Lawson then have resisted the temptation to trundle round his Cabinet colleagues , showing off his muscles and boasting that he alone had faced up to the Iron Lady and won ? |
| 3 | The Association faced up to the conflict , but lost one of its founder members in the process . |
| 4 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've faced up to it . |
| 6 | It was a problem which the team manager , Mike Turner , should have faced up to very quickly and brought to a conclusion one way or the other . |
| 7 | Dewi , a former Tokyo bar girl , had faced up to 16 years in prison but could now avoid jail completely if she behaves for two years . |
| 8 | But gradually those symptoms had to be admitted and faced up to . |
| 9 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 10 | ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says . |
| 11 | The Clinton administration has faced up to the fact that NASA 's plans for the space station threatened to swallow the agency whole . |
| 12 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has at last faced up to this in its latest World Economic Outlook . |
| 13 | There 's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of , and the very fact that you 've confronted your fears , faced up to your problem and sough help on your own initiative shows that you 're strong enough to make a full recovery . |
| 14 | To begin with a general point of caution , concerning the relationship between socialised economic planning and enterprise democracy : I have claimed these to be complementary features of the socialist project , and in an important sense they are , yet there is an inherent tension between the two which must be faced up to . |
| 15 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 16 | If you ask me , if she had n't been so fussed over by you and your Mum she 'd have turned round and faced up to things and been a lot happier . |
| 17 | Well , she 'd faced up to and conquered one major challenge in dealing with Marianne — but that trauma would seem nothing when she was forced to face Dane . |
| 18 | He had recovered his composure , and faced up to me with a chill warmth . |
| 19 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 20 | Indeed , if the Government had faced up to the reality of BSE earlier and had accepted the Opposition 's proposal for 100 per cent . |
| 21 | My remarks about the Attorney-General were strong because he has not faced up to his responsibility to enforce the law . |
| 22 | Doctors performing illegal abortions and their assistants would have faced up to two years in prison , although the woman undergoing an abortion would not have been punished unless she had performed it herself . |
| 23 | Sooner or later this burden will have to be faced up to in the form of higher taxation either now or in the future . |
| 24 | Well last time we , last time he came with us , I said there 's one thing I just want to ask you a favour , that 's enough , she 's as happy as harry now she 's faced up to the fact , that er , he was not good because he did n't love her any way , she loved him . |