Example sentences of "be face with 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The oil industry would be faced with the cost of meeting the ever higher burden of controlling emissions at the manufacturing plants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eviction , harassment , bills for disrepair : the words are well known , but no-one wants to be faced with the reality . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or he could even be faced with the prospect of calling about individual applications or even heaven forbid , the structure plan itself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So people were increasingly being faced with the problem of lots more dog mess close to home and how to dispose of it ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If the same reader were faced with the type of ‘ discourse ’ fragment created by Venneman , reproduced as ( 8 ) below , he might quite readily provide support for Venneman 's analysis by saying that ‘ the topic ’ is Mary . |
| 25 | In considering Lanfranc 's letter of 1072 , we were faced with the question : Why did he not produce them at the papal court ? |
| 26 | The children wanted sensible traditional meals and the contractors were faced with the problem of responding to demands in improvement in quality of delivery and organisation rather than an assumed change in taste for junk foods . |
| 27 | Unlike HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II were faced with the problem of specifying explicit schemes for controlling the flow of information between knowledge sources . |
| 28 | Then the ministers were faced with the Treasury 's ‘ autumn forecast ’ . |
| 29 | The centres of militancy of the previous decade were among the hardest hit , Labour MPs nearly all came from constituencies with massive unemployment , and the unions were faced with the protection of their employed members through organizations weakened by declining funds and membership . |
| 30 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |