Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [noun sg] to face " in BNC.
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1 | A person 's ability to relate to wider issues means mastering relationships in the immediate community — initially the home , because family life is where personal and public life meet face to face . |
2 | If you are single and the potentially perfect partner comes face to face with you at work , perhaps you have no option but to start a relationship . |
3 | So I would have heard enough on the phone er because I have n't got my original notes here , I would have heard enough on the phone er Robert to have suggested that it was a good idea to get face to face . |
4 | For H. G. Wells , the change to Bonar Law marked a distasteful new attitude by the Unionists ; when Balfour 's " essential liberalism came face to face with this new baseness of commercialized imperialism , with all its push and energy , he made a very poor fight for it . |
5 | The Manchester Guardian observed on 22 March that the situation in Korea was dangerous since ‘ Korea is one of the two parts of the world ( Germany is the other ) where the United States and the Soviet Union meet face to face in physical contact ’ . |
6 | STIFF BRITISH upper lip comes face to face with Japanese Prisoner Of War Camp cruelty and is forced , perish the thought , to compromise . |