Example sentences of "face the [det] [noun] as " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
2 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
3 | Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card . |
4 | as if there were n't enough problems for the leftwinger trying to give up , we also face the same difficulties as the ordinary , apolitical smoker does . |
5 | I face the same problems as a structural engineer . |
6 | Will the Minister commit himself and the Government to the development of the coal industry in Scotland and say more about the Government 's intentions for Monktonhall , lest Yorkshire face the same problems as Scotland , as the Bishop of Durham made clear this weekend ? |
7 | There , it might be argued , Merchiston Publishing , and our students , face the same dilemmas as many commercial publishers , particularly in the STM ( Science , Technology , Medicine ) field . |
8 | If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ? |
9 | It is to be hoped that they do n't face the same fate as the prisoners in the 42nd Police Precinct of Sao Paulo City . |
10 | With the decline of these markets , the company has been forced to look elsewhere or face the same fate as IBM . |
11 | We are concerned that rehabilitation may face the same problems as re-introduction or re-stocking in conservation — difficult , expensive , and the results often uncertain . |
12 | The diesel engine faces the same problem as many middle aged executives — it needs to lose weight . |