Example sentences of "[was/were] faced with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For now Aristotelians were faced with the same problem with respect to Jupiter and its moons . |
| 4 | Salford and Stirling were faced with the worst haemorrhages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 604 this court was faced with the curious situation that by a series of decisions , each moving almost imperceptibly further forward than the last , it had created a rule of law for which , if one stood back and looked at the matter afresh , there was absolutely no justification . |
| 8 | I was commissioned by Cambridge University Press specifically to base a book on this review and sent a copy of the manuscript to Bernard Carr a year before publication , I was faced with the difficult task of dividing credit between Carr and Rees , and the original authors whose papers they reviewed . |
| 9 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 10 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 11 | The lifeboat was faced with the same conditions as the Eyemouth lifeboat , and the same difficulties in finding a safe haven . |
| 12 | The doctrine is that whenever you are faced with a decision , you always follow what the last person who was faced with the same decision did . |
| 13 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |