Example sentences of "[noun sg] when confront with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 2 | ‘ THIS is regurgitated garbage dressed up as something new , ’ said Frank Bough when confronted with the error of his ways . |
| 3 | Here what is important for novices is the development of confidence when confronted with a new and demanding , indeed threatening , social situation , and for this they need to draw upon a set of established and reliable techniques and learn to feel secure in the straightforward business of actually putting them into practice , whatever their validity in terms of learning effect might be . |
| 4 | as if conscious of the damaging effect this group must have on the imagined relationship between the Poet and the Friend , damaging to the Poet and damaging to the reader 's view of both the Friend and the Poet ( ‘ why does he persevere ? ’ readers may ask in some irritation when confronted with such a catalogue of the Friend 's faults ) , Shakespeare sets matters even by writing what seems to be a related group where the Poet describes his own faults ( 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 ; 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ) . |
| 5 | The BBC will be able to use a cultural argument when confronted with a government debate in the build-up to its charter renewal in 1996 . |
| 6 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 7 | Why , for example , do we go on eating so much , in spite of our evident discomfort when confronted with intimations of the suffering involved for the creatures consumed ? |
| 8 | Thier fans have a reasonable sense of humour ( I suppose they have to ! ) for example when confronted with the chant ‘ going down , going down etc ’ they immediately replied with ‘ so are we … ’ . |
| 9 | Many differentiated cells retain the ability to return to the cell cycle when confronted with the appropriate mitogenic stimulus . |
| 10 | Like most snakes it can disarticulate its lower jaw from its upper when confronted with a particularly large meal , but it does more than that . |
| 11 | Jones may be an idealist and will probably face a rude awakening when confronted with the realities of the economy and the hidebound attitudes of a bureaucracy that is watching his advent with some trepidation . |
| 12 | One 's only logically appropriate stand when confronted with incomprehensibility is a demand for clarification ; belief , even with the best of good will , must wait upon the provision of a content to believe . |
| 13 | The ‘ postface ’ is both a po-faced stoicism when confronted with male egotism and the face of ‘ mimagreement ’ ( 14 ) whereby Mira pretends to allow herself to be amalgamated to Willy . |