Example sentences of "[was/were] face with the problem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children wanted sensible traditional meals and the contractors were faced with the problem of responding to demands in improvement in quality of delivery and organisation rather than an assumed change in taste for junk foods . |
| 2 | Unlike HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II were faced with the problem of specifying explicit schemes for controlling the flow of information between knowledge sources . |
| 3 | Having decided to improve our kitchen floor by laying ceramic floor tiles , I was faced with the problem of cutting them to shape around door architraves , etc . |
| 4 | Sir Harry Hinsley in British Intelligence in the Second World War has summarised the awesome challenge : ‘ Instructions for arranging and setting the wheels could be changed as frequently as every 24 hours ; anyone not knowing the setting was faced with the problem of choosing from one hundred and fifty million , million , million solutions . ’ |
| 5 | In the 1760's when Wilson was asked to paint Welsh landscape , perhaps in response to the Celtic revival , he was faced with the problem of how to paint bare mountains . |
| 6 | Once again Jesus was faced with the problem of answering . |
| 7 | Now he was faced with the problem of how to promote an airline which was forbidden under US law to sell tickets or advertise its service until the CAB and Federal Aviation Authority had given their approval . |