Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] face [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 2 | Drake also has conspicuous white mark at side of breast ; duck has white eye-ring , and obscure whitish patch on face at base of bill . |
| 3 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 4 | The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen-month-old Massachusetts-based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five-year commitment to the project . |
| 5 | The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face . |
| 6 | Fault-tolerant Unix systems builder Sequoia Systems Inc is considering selling itself , filing for bankruptcy or obtaining additional financing in face of its financial woes . |
| 7 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 8 | The old standards have decayed , the aristocracy no longer take the intellectual lead ; men of letters and booksellers are left face to face with a multitude of readers whose intellectual appetites and tastes are emancipated from all direct influence and control . |
| 9 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 10 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 11 | Repeal of these laws would involve considerable loss of face for some politicians and their advisers . |
| 12 | The population was used to receiving orders and to strict regulation in face of shared danger and privation . |
| 13 | In Sweden an even more striking increase in face of the intensified pressures and dangers of the early twentieth century took place , from nineteen in 1905 to eighty-eight in 1918 . |
| 14 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 15 | But there can be no doubt as to the Christian method in face of that challenge . |