Example sentences of "it [vb -s] in the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | The styles and values of both employees and managers currently support a job design philosophy that has its roots in work study and industrial engineering practice , and it flies in the face of conventional wisdom to believe that jobs can actually be designed rather than simply be the result of technologically determined requirements . |
| 2 | The one study on which this latter conclusion is based can not be generalized to demonstrate that there is a specific deterrent effect for all other corporate offences , and in any case , it should be treated very cautiously , not only because a single study can often be shown later to have missed the general condition , but also because it flies in the face of empirically grounded deterrence theory . |
| 3 | This narrow interpretation may be ingenious but in my judgment it flies in the face of the ordinary meaning of the language and of the purpose of the statute . |
| 4 | It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption . |
| 5 | It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption . |
| 6 | Although the Government proposal is welcome , it flies in the face of all logic . |
| 7 | It is a good example of a major service being given to local government so that local rather than national democracy can determine the details of its future and how it flies in the face of the criticisms of the party opposite , that we 're always taking important things away from local government . |
| 8 | We are talking about care in the community , we know there a on routine fifty thousand pounds extra to community voluntary groups which we can well afford it flies in the face of the group , the instincts of the people that we represent and what the government is expecting . |
| 9 | When the feet are hurting it shows in the face , as well as making you thoroughly miserable , so go to see a qualified chiropodist . |
| 10 | Courage with its string of Bulk brews from John Smiths to Fosters now talks of a formidable challenge as it reorganizes in the face of a four percent drop in total British beer sales a year . |