Example sentences of "facing the [det] " in BNC.

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1 No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days .
2 It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school .
3 After time , he will still be facing the same problem : what to do with the remainder of the material ?
4 That is to say , each dug-in group of British soldiers could expect to be facing the same dug-in group of Germans for many months .
5 When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way .
6 It is only their sheltered lives which keep them from facing the same problem .
7 Intellectuals were perturbed by this turnaround and students , previously urged to ‘ emancipate their minds ’ from the fetters of dogma , found themselves once again facing the same old political rhetoric and slogans of former times .
8 More and more doctors are facing the same sort of dilemma , as the proportion of elderly people increases in Britain and medical advances make it possible to keep alive patients who would previously have died .
9 Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments .
10 Here were people from the field facing the same issues .
11 Now we have a corps of locally born and educated doctors with foreign sounding names in search of a medical career facing the same circumstances others faced before .
12 Hence the monopolist will produce exactly the same output as in the absence of a profits tax and , facing the same demand curve , will charge the same price as before .
13 If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ?
14 perhaps in six months or in sixty years erm facing the same kind of problem again er I , I can erm I have close experience with a situation on my , on my own patch which rises from time to time an and is most unpleasant for the people in and it goes back if I might say so an and therefore the planning considerations that have been mentioned need to be paid attention to .
15 I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines .
16 Along with Brown ( 48 ) , of Bunbeg Park , and facing the same charge are Paul McCullough ( 48 ) , of Glenalina Road , and Stephen Canning ( 21 ) , of Doon Road .
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