Example sentences of "be face [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine you 're faced with the choice of making a payment in cash lump sum or in a series of equal instalments . |
| 2 | cos they do n't wan na be , cos it seems bad but when , when they 're in the , when they 're in the ballot box , when , when they 're in the voting booths and then they 're faced with the question then , do they want |
| 3 | Now , though , they 're faced with the task of finding the legal owners . |
| 4 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 5 | He turned his head so that when he opened his eyes he could be facing into the clearing . |
| 6 | Parents may be faced with the question of whether their child will be considered to be ‘ special ’ in an ordinary school , or ‘ ordinary ’ in a special school . |
| 7 | In the same report another contributor comments , " For EMU to be sustainable , the economies of countries forming the union must be similarly competitive or else some countries would be faced with the equivalent of a constant balance of payments deficit which , in EMU , would be reflected in terms of stagnation and unemployment . " |
| 8 | In such circumstances , the directors may be faced with the decision to allow control of the company to fall into public hands , with the prospect that one day it will attract the attentions of an unwelcome predator . |
| 9 | In the final instance the golfer could simply refuse to work with his agent , who would then be faced with the problem of whether to sue his erstwhile client — a very expensive , long-winded and unsatisfactory process . |
| 10 | The oil industry would be faced with the cost of meeting the ever higher burden of controlling emissions at the manufacturing plants . |
| 11 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 12 | The individual in whom that spirit lives will be faced with the opportunity to do such wrong and it is that individual who makes the choice and decides which path to follow . |
| 13 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 14 | In years to come , the children will be faced with the reality that their first photo session showed them crinkle-faced , bawling , yawning or just bored . |
| 15 | Eviction , harassment , bills for disrepair : the words are well known , but no-one wants to be faced with the reality . |
| 16 | With a population whose numbers are declining , and where average age is rising , we shall be faced with the situation of a smaller and smaller proportion of active workers having to support an ever increasing proportion of old people , ’ ( Sandys , 1937 ) . |
| 17 | However , any new government will be faced with the legacy of a distorted education system and the need to find new strategies — as well as major financial investment — to change it . |
| 18 | Mr De Haan said the original reason for going public was his father 's concern that as a private company , with no market in its shares , the family might one day be faced with the prospect of having to sell the entire business to meet death duties . |
| 19 | But if you do n't embrace EDI , relentlessly , every year , conference after conference , you will be faced with the prospect of people like me endlessly expounding the virtues of EDI . |
| 20 | At last it was all over , and burdened with farewell gifts , Cassie left school on the final day to be faced with the prospect of the long summer holiday . |
| 21 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 22 | If , as Marland ( 1981 ) suggests , schools should develop new integrated subjects they will be faced with the task of getting them approved by the Secondary Examinations Council under the National Criteria for the various conventional subjects . |
| 23 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 24 | For people like my daughter there is also the ethical dilemma to be faced on the funding needed to support the research work . |
| 25 | now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from the case and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is marking the reference , if , what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , of course with the statute , er something which er it involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in er maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline from the law to show us a sufficiently strong case to justify the er , er , the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 26 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 27 | The issue of the strength of the Government 's commitment to the process is not one to be kept until 1996 or 1998 , but must be faced by the Government now — not with devices to mollify the rival factions in the Conservative party , but with a determination to promote the opportunities for , and the living and working standards of , the people of this country . |
| 28 | A Symes in High Street Ward , for example , pointed to the ‘ vast problems to be faced by the Borough — houses for the working classes , road improvements , removal of slums , tram system improved ’ , but then went to the heart of the matter : |
| 29 | So people were increasingly being faced with the problem of lots more dog mess close to home and how to dispose of it ! |
| 30 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |