Example sentences of "was confronted with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was confronted with the failure of his personal life ( impersonalized in ‘ ode ’ and elsewhere ) and , it seemed , of his public life . |
| 2 | Then , in 1965 , Derry was confronted with the Government 's decision to accept the recommendation of the Lockwood Report and site the proposed second university for Northern Ireland in Coleraine — despite the fact that Derry already had a focus for third-level education in Magee College . |
| 3 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 4 | In the '80s Scottish football was confronted with the monumental task of coming to terms with a new financial era . |
| 5 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 6 | He told the bailiff who came for him that he must shave , and suggested he stepped into his studio where on an easel he was confronted with the half finished Lazarus . |
| 7 | But when her husband Timothy Donovan was confronted with the evidence it ‘ completely finished the marriage ’ , she told the High Court yesterday . |
| 8 | It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . |
| 9 | The opening of the Pyramid redirected the circulation of visitors , but once one had left the escalators in the Hall Napoleon behind , one was confronted with the same layout of rooms as ten years ago . |
| 10 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 11 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 12 | As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze . |