Example sentences of "[noun sg] to face " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 2 | The depth from wall to face is a standard 300 mm ( 12 in ) and widths run from 230 mm ( 9 in ) to 600 mm ( 24in ) for single door cabinets to 1000 mm ( 39 in ) to 1200 mm ( 48 in ) for double door models . |
| 3 | Do not use a brush straight from pot to face . |
| 4 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 5 | Last year ACET educators saw 24,500 pupils in face to face presentations . |
| 6 | Round the semi-circle of chairs quick looks flicked from face to face . |
| 7 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 8 | Abruptly the laird smiled , looking from face to face along the front row , and said , ‘ Well , well — it is a fine morning for it . |
| 9 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 10 | This predicament arises out of the demise of consciousness , when only consciousness , understood in a traditional way , can bring us face to face with , and hence give us any grasp on , the qualitative , as opposed to relational , properties . |
| 11 | Jess was a mellow sort of chap until he came face to face with a light bulb |
| 12 | When approached ‘ face to face ’ by a senior US officer , two rebel officers said they wanted General Noriega to retire within Panama , rather than face drug trafficking charges in the US . |
| 13 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 14 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 15 | Live work is the one area where the artists and audience meet face to face . |
| 16 | The poet who against Romantic diction forged a new contemporary language for a poetry which had been able to deal with the modern city face to face , had , to a considerable extent , reinstated Romanticism through anthropology . |
| 17 | It seemed that in emotional encounters men and women stood face to face , talking excited nonsense while each looked with agitation into their partner 's eyes . |
| 18 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 19 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 20 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 21 | TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT 'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED , FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO . |
| 22 | ARMS range of activities includes : ½ million pound Research Programme ; Education and Information ; Telephone Counselling ; Face to Face Counselling ; Physiotherapy ; Nutritional Advice ; Speech Therapy ; Continence Advice ; Oxygen Therapy ; Social Interaction . |
| 23 | He had known very little about himself until he was face to face with death . |
| 24 | YOU can not look at anything these days without coming face to face with a picture of a blissful couple holding a baby . |
| 25 | The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes one is brought face to face with facts which can not be buried . |
| 27 | A ‘ radical ’ new procedure , under which complaints staff make inquiries by telephone or face to face with the parties to produce a summary for the complaints committee , is proposed . |
| 28 | You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross . |
| 29 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 30 | Even Oz was quiet , his eyes flickering from face to face . |