Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be confronted with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he 'll give us much trouble once he 's confronted with the others . |
| 2 | If you are confronted with an aggressively rude interviewer who makes the interview very stressful you may want to ask yourself whether you could possibly be happy working in such an atmosphere anyway . |
| 3 | Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs . |
| 4 | If we are concerned with readers who have sensory deprivation , or if we are confronted with unfamiliar alphabets — in the writer 's case examples of these would be Arabic or Japanese — there may be much preparation before the process can continue . |
| 5 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |
| 6 | Certainly England will not complain if they are confronted with Costa Rica , and 1950 is a sufficiently dim memory now not to have bad vibes about the United States . |
| 7 | We er , the we , we have also to make statements on the indigenous people and land rights because we were confronted with the position of Aborigine people in er , Australia . |
| 8 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 9 | What chance have we lowland city folk got when we 're confronted with maps covered in names that look like anagrams ? |
| 10 | Erm when I think of you and I do , when we 're confronted with the challenges in our household budgets . |
| 11 | All these feelings reflect our helplessness when we are confronted with a loss of major importance , and it is interesting that although anger is one of the earliest parts of the grief process , people often deny it altogether . |
| 12 | In a review of the first edition of this book , Sara Mills took issue with me for pessimistically implying that linguistic reform is impossible ; she pointed out , and I think with some justice , that my analysis risks leaving women with no way to hit back when they are confronted with sexist language , at least until after the revolution . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the individuals gradually become knowledgeable over the entire spectrum of aviation to the extent that when they are confronted with something new and different , like hot air balloons or hang gliders , or , at the other end of the scale , vectored thrust and variable geometry ( swing-wing ) aircraft , they are not thrown off balance on the first encounter with something different . |
| 14 | There are many people who come into English-language teaching without having passed through formal pedagogic processes , so that when they are confronted with the terminology of the subject , they may be at a disadvantage to those who have already been to teacher-training college or who have a university degree in linguistics . |
| 15 | It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . |
| 16 | If he receives decent ball , Stuart Barnes can be brilliant but a big question mark hangs over his performance when he 's confronted with poor quality possession . |
| 17 | Yet when he is confronted with Stephano and Trinculo , the good-for-nothing drunken servants , Caliban is so frightened that he cowers and speaks prose ( 55ff . ) . |
| 18 | He felt the sufferings of the world most keenly when he was confronted with those who were weakest , most vulnerable , least able to defend themselves — refugees : men and women with no home to go to , and , most bereft of all refugees , children . |