Example sentences of "face to face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year ACET educators saw 24,500 pupils in face to face presentations . |
| 2 | Round the semi-circle of chairs quick looks flicked from face to face . |
| 3 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 4 | Abruptly the laird smiled , looking from face to face along the front row , and said , ‘ Well , well — it is a fine morning for it . |
| 5 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 6 | This predicament arises out of the demise of consciousness , when only consciousness , understood in a traditional way , can bring us face to face with , and hence give us any grasp on , the qualitative , as opposed to relational , properties . |
| 7 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 8 | When approached ‘ face to face ’ by a senior US officer , two rebel officers said they wanted General Noriega to retire within Panama , rather than face drug trafficking charges in the US . |
| 9 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 10 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 11 | Live work is the one area where the artists and audience meet face to face . |
| 12 | The poet who against Romantic diction forged a new contemporary language for a poetry which had been able to deal with the modern city face to face , had , to a considerable extent , reinstated Romanticism through anthropology . |
| 13 | It seemed that in emotional encounters men and women stood face to face , talking excited nonsense while each looked with agitation into their partner 's eyes . |
| 14 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 15 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 16 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 17 | TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT 'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED , FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO . |
| 18 | ARMS range of activities includes : ½ million pound Research Programme ; Education and Information ; Telephone Counselling ; Face to Face Counselling ; Physiotherapy ; Nutritional Advice ; Speech Therapy ; Continence Advice ; Oxygen Therapy ; Social Interaction . |
| 19 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 20 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
| 21 | The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 23 | A ‘ radical ’ new procedure , under which complaints staff make inquiries by telephone or face to face with the parties to produce a summary for the complaints committee , is proposed . |
| 24 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 25 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 26 | Even Oz was quiet , his eyes flickering from face to face . |
| 27 | Joe tapped his fingertips together and looked from face to face . |
| 28 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 29 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 30 | Zambia padded to the door , coming face to face with a wriggling Ari , still firmly in the grip of Reynard Lennon . |