Example sentences of "[not/n't] face the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 2 | At a meeting of the Party 's Central Committee yesterday , a Politburo member , Leszek Miller , said that a nationwide plebiscite also showed that more than half of the Party 's two million members agreed that ‘ the present form of the party is outdated and can not face the new conditions ’ . |
| 3 | He secured permission from the Home Secretary for Lizzy to be disinterred but , unlike Berlioz , he could not face the grisly spectacle , and delegated the task to his lawyer . |
| 4 | But this does not mean that they did not face the troublesome question Berkeley faces , of how to distinguish between illusion and reality . |
| 5 | There are many people who collude with their partner , or loved one , or friend 's denial of loss or suffering because they can not face the other person 's pain and tears . |
| 6 | It too can offer performance-related bonuses , and it does not face the free-rider problem which confronts individual shareholders . |
| 7 | Perhaps if more of us did protest other novice purchasers would not face the same problem . |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that Egon Zehnder 's London office was established almost ten years later than Spencer Stuart , they do not face the same regeneration problem ; only now are their oldest consultants coming up to retirement . |
| 9 | Clovis was fortunate not to face the full brunt of the Ostrogothic counterattack ; the Burgundians , who did , suffered for their involvement in the campaign of 508 , and lost a substantial strip of land in the south of the kingdom . |
| 10 | She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year . |
| 11 | We ca n't be credible in that great human crusade if we ca n't face the real challenge of getting rid of British nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 12 | That rule of unlimited liability for Lloyds names has now been changed , so future investors wo n't face the same problem . |
| 13 | It is to be hoped that they do n't face the same fate as the prisoners in the 42nd Police Precinct of Sao Paulo City . |