Example sentences of "faced [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Unit demonstrates how AEA can respond to problems faced through the everyday use of advanced technologies and by solving problems , grow and develop world markets . |
| 2 | Faced for the second time with the collapse of Balliol 's rule , Edward once again mobilized an army , this time for a winter campaign which proved unpopular with the troops and which was abandoned under pressure from Philip VI to conclude a truce , which was to last from Easter to midsummer 1335 . |
| 3 | Other historians have seen the Restoration as a counter-revolution ; a palace coup d'éat in which power passed from one part of the élite to another ; and a transfer of power which was an integral part of the growth of national , and nationalist , awareness among a people faced for the first time in centuries by real threats from the outside world . |
| 4 | He was then faced during the presidential election campaign with an unexpected challenge by Ross Perot , a billionaire from Texas . |
| 5 | The Orkney Tourist Board occupied much of the building , and faced onto the main road , and the Northern Studies Centre was in another part . |
| 6 | But to be faced with the short-term threat of redundancy at the hands of private contractors brought in by the health authority would mean that they might feel subject to a considerable degree of provocation . |
| 7 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 8 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 9 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 10 | But she looked like a Protestant faced with the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 11 | He claims that when oil companies were faced with the contradictory demand for speedy exploration and extraction and the requirements of safety they , with successive British governments ' blessing , chose speed . |
| 12 | Now , faced with the Anglo-Irish accord , the three unionist leaders were again united and Paisley and Molyneaux were working the main street of Bangor to boost Kilfedder 's support . |
| 13 | For example , when faced with the large-scale Vietminh attacks of early 1951 the personal intervention of the chief US military adviser on Vietnam with General MacArthur in Japan secured the delivery of American napalm , which in turn allowed de Lattre to claim his victory . |
| 14 | Faced with the immediate prospect of a serious coal dispute and fuel crisis the Baldwin government decided to provide a nine-month subsidy to the coal owners , during which time a royal commission , the Samuel Commission , would investigate the coal industry . |
| 15 | The teacher is faced with the persistent problem of how to help children feel the action has started when the truth is they do not have either enough factual or empathetic resources to identify with the historical situation . |
| 16 | We are thus faced with the following problem : what organization in the early sea-urchin embryo ensures that the proportions of cells that form the skeleton , the gut , and the surface layers , will be the same in embryos whose cells can be quite extensively rearranged and whose size varies over a factor of eightfold ? |
| 17 | Suppose an industrial salesperson working for an adhesives manufacturer is faced with the following objection : ‘ Why should I buy your new adhesive gun when my present method of applying adhesive — direct from the tube — is perfectly satisfactory ? ’ |
| 18 | The fact is that Russian publishers producing books on art are faced with the real threat of closure . |
| 19 | So , it 's okay by the standards of the rest of the range , but what about when faced with the real world ? |
| 20 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 21 | Faced with the economic reality of the option to cut costs by using a cheaper , unqualified accountant ( however false an economy this may be ) , many limited companies will move away from member firms . |
| 22 | None the less , faced with the greatest crises of his reign , and unable to sift through the unfathomable views , and motives of his countrymen , the Shah had turned increasingly to foreign advisers . |
| 23 | Faced with the progressive disintegration of the SED-PDS , Modrow called at the ninth round table meeting on Jan. 22 for immediate talks on a grand coalition . |
| 24 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 25 | Faced with the impossible task of finding something that was cheap , simple and fair , the Group opted , to their credit , for a system that would be as fair as possible in all the circumstances , letting the other criteria take care of themselves . |
| 26 | Mildred was now faced with the impossible task of convincing someone that there was an elderly magician in the pond . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ said Mildred , now faced with the embarrassing task of prising the unfortunate cat from the broomstick and making her way miserably from the yard with the taunting stare of Ethel boring into her back . |
| 28 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's difficult , faced with the marvellous food on offer twenty-four hours a day . |
| 30 | Then , when faced with the negative answer , ‘ Really … ? ’ |