Example sentences of "face up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 2 | He could face up to 10 years in prison . |
| 3 | Let us face up to the reality of these fears and face them in the power of the cross . |
| 4 | She must face up to facts : her original project of family co-operation had fallen through because of her misjudgement . |
| 5 | I 'd rather face up to things alone . |
| 6 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 7 | If found guilty , Mr McNamara , who has been charged with mail fraud , wire fraud , and money laundering , could face up to 30 years in jail , the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m . |
| 8 | Many young people run away from home rather than face up to their problems . |
| 9 | They tell me I must face up to my responsibilities , get my title out of hock to the moneylenders , and marry an heiress . ’ |
| 10 | Farnham must face up to life in the second division of the Surrey Championship without their two opening bowlers from last season . |
| 11 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 12 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 13 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 14 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 15 | My own tears , hot noisy gulping that burns and blotches , that neither you nor any of the women in the group is going to offer to staunch , tears of anger for myself and all of us , anger with the women in the group for making me face up to what I 'm doing to you , for making me want to take out those dusty bundles of old stories from where they 've lain for my lifetime tied up with pink ribbon and reread them and throw them away . |
| 16 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 17 | Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ . |
| 18 | Chairperson of Westport UDC , Sean Staunton , who is also chairperson of Ireland West Tourism welcomed the decision to refuse planning permission and asked : ‘ The question everybody must face up to is — do we want the short-term and dubious economic benefits of all mining in this area or the long-term and positive benefits of ongoing tourism and development ? ’ |
| 19 | You 're always talking of speaking the truth yourself , are n't you , Aggie ? but you can never face up to hearin' it . |
| 20 | A new building could also face up to the logistical problems presented by so much contemporary art : vast canvases , dispersed installations , massive weights ( the Serra sculptures currently on show required the floor to be shored up ) , and ultra-sensitive materials . |
| 21 | I feel that I should face up to this problem , now that I am nearing 40 and can no longer hope to ‘ grow out of it ’ . |
| 22 | In these circumstances , I hope you will feel able to concur in my view that this is not an issue which can be postponed and that the Government must face up to its responsibilities of trying to find a solution to an urgent social and economic problem , it being , of course , understood that there should be no interference with the war effort . |
| 23 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 24 | It is anticipated that , as regards the current emergency , personnel will face up to the issues involved and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective age groups . |
| 25 | First , it blots out the past so that a body can face up to the present . |
| 26 | She really was , and I sort of thought , Oh , I ca n't go , I ca n't face up to going there . |
| 27 | We went to make coffee , the wretched little kitchen , and I thought , anyhow I could n't face up to living here with him just the domestic effort . |
| 28 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 29 | But Dr Gayford suggests that women who demand to be taken in their birthday suits should face up to reality . |
| 30 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |