Example sentences of "when confront with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people when confronted with a horse will pat it . |
| 2 | One : when confronted with a warm bottle of champagne , fill a teapot with ice , pour in the champagne , and swill before serving . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This tactic goes against many of our instincts ; when confronted with a difficult audience member , we may tend to ignore the person in the vain hope that he or she will go away . |
| 6 | However , when confronted with a new product or a new problem , there are a number of things to be done which could help you find the right answer : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Enforcement agents who adopt a compliance strategy , however , are preoccupied with securing conformity to a rule or standard when confronted with a problem . |
| 9 | Their desire to preserve order ( that is , obey instructions from a government in Madrid dominated by Murat ) and their shilly-shallying when confronted with a demand to arm and lead a national revolution against the French , were swamped by popular risings . |
| 10 | How does a black iguana respond when confronted with a wide-eyed researcher ? |
| 11 | Even the daftest dog , when confronted with a bitch in heat , knows instinctively how to proceed , but with a really ivory-skulled animal like Cedric I wondered … |
| 12 | Additionally , if it is found that feelings of risk in the simulator are similar to those experienced when actually driving , and there is reasonable consistency between subjects in assessments , it is possible to infer the feelings of risk a subject is likely to experience when confronted with a particular situation without actually asking the subject to give ratings at the time . |
| 13 | When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best . |
| 14 | I felt the same way a horse must have when confronted with a steam engine . |
| 15 | When confronted with an instance of deviance , the field man 's instincts are to stop the pollution , identify its source , and negotiate for preventive or remedial measures . |
| 16 | Sigismund betrayed his promise — he is supposed to have blushed when confronted with the fact — and , after a farcical trial , Hus was burned . |
| 17 | As far as nudity was concerned they quickly accepted it in Josephine 's act as it seemed such a natural part of her but their attitudes were quite prudish when confronted with the nudes backstage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 20 | ‘ THIS is regurgitated garbage dressed up as something new , ’ said Frank Bough when confronted with the error of his ways . |
| 21 | When confronted with the prospect of a nuclear holocaust , peace campaigners sometimes search for a legal expression for their moral outrage , and some layers are indeed able to offer such legal comfort . |
| 22 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 23 | Many differentiated cells retain the ability to return to the cell cycle when confronted with the appropriate mitogenic stimulus . |
| 24 | When confronted with the difficult problem of explaining this the diffusionist will try to establish the movement 's place of origin . |
| 25 | What , for that matter , would he have done , when confronted with the pile of chips and mass of Brussels sprouts heaped onto a plate containing an alleged sole meunière , in a restaurant where they ought to know better ? |
| 26 | The need to put roofs over heads is the excuse councillors always came up with when confronted with the consequences . |
| 27 | When confronted with the challenge , posed by an increasingly integrated world economy , of growing competition in international markets for manufactures large numbers of Britain 's manufacturing enterprises failed to perform satisfactorily . |
| 28 | When confronted with the pollution , G. says the manager claimed it was an accident , that a vat had tipped over accidentally and the ice cream had disappeared down a drain . |
| 29 | When confronted with the excesses of the anti-French mobs in 1808 it was almost natural that such men , with fear as much as hope in their hearts , should become supporters of French rule . |
| 30 | It was inevitable that when confronted with the initial chaos the Trust 's staff concentrated on dealing with trees which blocked roads and drives or which posed a threat to the safety of people or buildings . |