Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] face [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deng Xiaoping could not tolerate the loss of face of postponement . |
| 2 | Er we sell the whole concept on the phone er but we also have the luxury of face to face . |
| 3 | Maud Ellmann , in her brilliant reading of Eliot 's The Waste Land , ‘ Eliot 's Abjection ’ , is similarly concerned with the figure of prosopopoeia , here the giving of face to death itself — a case of killing the past by finding it already dead . |
| 4 | From the west , women 's issues predominate : themes of domesticity and escapism , taboo subjects such as domestic violence and incest , adolescent insecurities and the injustice of the law in face of all of these issues . |
| 5 | Some experiments will be conducted where video sequences of voice and face do not match ; and , in order to evaluate the primacy of face over voice , the onset of each will be varied . |
| 6 | Conversational analysts have been particularly concerned with the use of language to negotiate role-relationships , peer-solidarity , the exchange of turns in a conversation , the saving of face of both speaker and hearer ( cf. |
| 7 | Maintaining the policy in face of previously unthinkable levels of unemployment became a test of ‘ resolute leadership ’ . |
| 8 | The central sphere for the operation of the passions is the reality of face to face relationships . |
| 9 | There are no girls on earth that have the beauty of face of the American girl , nor the peculiar charm of your lasses . |
| 10 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |
| 11 | The faces of the Argive youths have a more natural look than the Athenian , but the Attic artist has a far stronger grasp of form , of the relation of face to skull . |