Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] faced [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They exhibit to an exaggerated degree that intolerance and sense of unease we all show when faced with information or experience which we can not readily assimilate and ‘ make sense of ’ ( as we say ) by fitting it into our existing knowledge and categories . |
| 2 | The thought of entering the disaster area of an elderly widow 's grief and shouldering some of the responsibility for helping her to bear it , and to rebuild what is left of her life , is enough to create feelings of anxiety in anyone ; and admittedly this can be a very difficult assignment , for not only will you be well aware that you are unable to give her the one thing she really wants — the return of her husband — but you will feel , as we all do when faced with the bereaved , that their personality seems suddenly to have been crushed like a flower under the heel of a vandal , showing it to be so fragile and vulnerable that almost any attempt to revive it would seem to be doomed to failure . |
| 3 | But given the greater semantic generality of typical Arabic conjunctions , what does an Arab translator do when faced with an array of explicit conjunctions in the source text ? |
| 4 | What abilities do they have compared with others who suffer when faced with similar situations ? |
| 5 | This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ? |
| 6 | It is vital , therefore , to recognise the difficulty many staff experience when faced with an alternative view which may contradict and threaten the very philosophy around which their thoughts and teaching style has developed . |