Example sentences of "were confronted with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings of angels with guns appeared at a time when the religious orders were confronted with the stubborn persistence of pre-conquest religion amongst their Indian charges . |
| 2 | PASSENGERS on the 7.00 am Paris-Brussels express experienced something of a gastronomic shock yesterday when they were confronted with the Great British Breakfast . |
| 3 | To take an example from my own professional field , sinology , the first Christian missionaries in China were confronted with the Neo-Confucian cosmology , for which the universe is composed of something called ch'i and ordered by something called li . |
| 4 | Once round the bend , they were confronted with the sight of a mass of men hurrying towards them , a few hundred yards off , some mounted but most afoot , in no sort of order , spread and strung out over perhaps quarter of a mile of gently-rising ground , with the monkish buildings and its township behind , as well as the tented encampment . |
| 5 | In the May of 1808 the constituted authorities all over Spain were confronted with the dilemma which discredited civil governors on the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 . |
| 6 | When , in the past , men were confronted with the problem of differentiating themselves from animals they tended to do so in terms of human attributes such as self-consciousness , rationality , free-will , or the possession of a soul or a moral sense . |
| 7 | We er , the we , we have also to make statements on the indigenous people and land rights because we were confronted with the position of Aborigine people in er , Australia . |