Example sentences of "be [verb] face to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 2 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 3 | By January 1946 de Gaulle had been brought face to face with the reality that a basic incompatibility of outlook and temperament existed between himself and the members of the assembly . |
| 4 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 5 | Offenders are brought face to face with people who 've lost loved ones in drink-driving accidents . |
| 6 | A statue in the round was surely conceived as in some sense a being to be met face to face , so was designed primarily to be seen from in front . |
| 7 | An interview schedule will always be administered face to face . |
| 8 | Although application forms can be very thorough and very revealing there are some questions which can only be asked face to face , and in an interview where a good rapport has been established . |
| 9 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 10 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 11 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 12 | Barbara wished they were talking face to face . |
| 13 | Before I could deliver another , he had grasped my wrist and we were fighting face to face , nearly falling into the fire as we did so . |
| 14 | Interviews were conducted face to face . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 17 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 18 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 19 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 20 | She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street . |