Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] to face " in BNC.

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1 The Manager using the system is constantly face to face with data and this increases his knowledge of the company and its personnel .
2 Speech , especially face to face conversation , uses resources ( intonation , pausing , gesture , gaze ) that writing does not permit .
3 As it is , going to Lourdes out of season , in the late autumn or winter , brings one even more starkly face to face with what the Catholic Belloc calls this supernatural place's ' detestable earthly adjuncts ' .
4 the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client .
5 It is no longer face to face with him but is integrated with him and it progressively absorbs him .
6 Happily married couples , he thought , stood not face to face , absorbed in each other , but back to back , looking outwards upon the world .
7 Now that 's not face to face that is on the phone .
8 Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’
9 But that 's still face to face you mean ?
10 Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory .
11 There is conversation which is usually face to face but may sometimes involve telecommunication .
12 The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose .
13 I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there .
14 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 !
15 After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today , she was now face to face with possible disaster .
16 For now we see through a glass , darkly : but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then I shall know even as also I am known . ’ '
17 Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar .
18 So I have Posi the go-ahead , and we surged out through the Valve , coming almost face to face with the two ships .
19 They just look forward to meeting the notorious killers again face to face .
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