Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the face " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to strip off the face , like a rubber mask , what would be underneath ? |
| 2 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 3 | Clouds of flies were crawling over the faces of the dead Germans . |
| 4 | Mr Heath in 1970 was also a radical leader and many of his policies were enacted in the face of bitter opposition in and out of Parliament . |
| 5 | Opinion polls suggest that a variety of social reforms carried out in Britain in the last few years — the abolition of capital punishment and the liberalization of the law relating to homosexuality , for example — were enacted in the face of popular opposition . |