Example sentences of "[noun sg] face [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study analyses the stunted growth of this form of schooling and especially the complex reasons for its failure which is seen as a major defect in the formation of a skilled labour face in England , The research is based on the analysis of documentation in the Pro Kew and elsewhere . |
| 2 | On one level I suppose climbing the south-west face of Everest was the biggest and most complete expedition , but in spite of our being successful , one member of the team died on the second summit attempt . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |
| 5 | ‘ Thomas met his enemy face to face that afternoon too , ’ shrilled Gwendolen , determined that her beloved 's name should at least be represented . |
| 6 | That pulled the club face across the ball , imparting a fatal slice . |
| 7 | A man with a hatchet face in a blue suit . |
| 8 | Cut a face or slice using water only as a lubricant ; avoid all grease and oil ; do not touch the cut face with uncovered hands . |
| 9 | Tongues of flame from a fire-eater near by lit Meredith 's porcelain face with a golden glow and set her tumbling red waves ablaze on her shoulders . |
| 10 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
| 11 | The young piddock clasps the rock face with a muscular sucker called a foot , presses its saw teeth against the rock and starts to swivel back and forth . |
| 12 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 13 | ‘ We took the axe to the cold rock face of socialism and we hewed out the secret for which generations had searched in vain — private wealth and public welfare growing together . ’ |
| 14 | Soon he reached the top where the hills levelled out and stretched to the hard rock face of the towering cliffs . |
| 15 | The moon was not yet up and in the darkness we could only just make out the rock face of the west bank above us , a cliff some thirty feet high . |
| 16 | Some would seem to be associated with duns , there being three in the Dun Finn area , a large one at Dun Bhoreraig , some to be seen from the fort in the field below the steep rock face of Dun Nosbridge , and one of fifteen feet across at Trudernish . |
| 17 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 18 | In 1883 , General Gordon was impressed by a rock face to the North of Jerusalem which resembled a human skill — Golgotha — Calvary . |
| 19 | He continued : ‘ I have already been slated over and over again by local climbers for putting bolts into the rock face at Land 's End , but this is the way forward ; of that I have no doubt . |
| 20 | The rock face behind them was silvered with moisture and shimmered like a silken curtain . |
| 21 | It seems to hang threateningly over the village , with massive detached boulders of slate ready to topple if you put a foot wrong , and great heaps of rubble lie where they were detached from the rock face by gunpowder , which was also made in the vicinity . |
| 22 | A volcanic crag with a superb wo wood face to is with many footpaths through it . |
| 23 | Such tissue bound IgG might predominantely be IgG1 because this subclass has recently shown together with terminal complement complex on the luminal face of the epithelium in ulcerative colitis . |
| 24 | The protonated omeprazole is then converted to an active metabolite , the sulphenamide , which reacts covalently with cysteine residues on the luminal face of the H + , K + ATPase alpha unit , resulting in irreversible inhibition of H + , K + ATPase and a parallel inhibition of acid secretion . |
| 25 | The south face of this crag has many three and four pitch routes at 5b to 6a . |
| 26 | This south face of the concourse , flanking the rebuilt portion of the building , is almost entirely clad in smooth , light maple panelling , to provide an interesting contrast with the older brick wall opposite . |
| 27 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 28 | CRAMANT : Those vines on the south face of the Butte de Saran belonging to the commune of Chouilly are planted on rich sand , sandstone , clay and lignite soil , while those which belong to Cramant , being physically beneath those of Chouilly , are of Belemnite chalk . |
| 29 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 30 | Below : Skiing down the South Face of the Midi ( photos by Pete Leeming ) . |