Example sentences of "faced the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human pedestrians faced the same treatment , but knowing the rules they were quicker off the mark . |
| 2 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
| 3 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 4 | Renault 's new partners , Volvo of Sweden , faced the same problem at the same time , needing a new gearbox for their new 850 GLT ( which goes on sale here next month ) . |
| 5 | Other towns in the Midlands , towns such as Coventry for example , faced the same problem of how to get building land for their physical expansion . |
| 6 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the government faced the same problem that every other government had faced with the NHS , trying to maintain a balance between a centrally controlled budget and escalating demands , demands shaped by the professional providers of services and the inescapable needs of an ageing population . |
| 8 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 9 | Any teacher found guilty of leaking examination questions faced the same penalty . |
| 10 | Bell noted : ‘ We faced the same quandary clubs rapidly going through divisions encounter with their XV-a-side fixture list . |
| 11 | But industries right across the UK faced the same risk . |
| 12 | AS , in thee matches , they both faced the same bowlers on the same pitches , it may be deduced that , as batsmen , they are of roughly equal merit . |
| 13 | The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same . |