Example sentences of "face to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Villiers ' hazel eyes shot from her face to fitzAlan at the bright greeting . |
| 2 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 3 | It struck her as comical , so soon after the expressions of revulsion and outrage on coming face to face for the first time with sexual deviance . |
| 4 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |
| 5 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 6 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 7 | We are brought face to face with the question , ‘ What is the purpose of human life itself ? ’ |
| 8 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 9 | A ‘ radical ’ new procedure , under which complaints staff make inquiries by telephone or face to face with the parties to produce a summary for the complaints committee , is proposed . |
| 10 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 11 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter movingly brought his people face to face with the great realities of heaven and of hell , with God and with eternity . |
| 13 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 14 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 15 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 16 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 17 | And would you believe it ? we came face to face with the McNabs . |
| 18 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 19 | As she came face to face with the revolving doors her escorts stood aside to allow her to precede . |
| 20 | It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme . |
| 21 | And to attribute knowledge of Truth to the voice of conscience in this way , or to the religious and ethical criteria of a particular form of life , inevitably brings Gandhi face to face with the problem of the relativity of truth and with the question whether under the circumstances one is justified in talking about absolute Truth at all . |
| 22 | The authority or aristocracy and armed excise officers came face to face with the fact that a substantial part of the rural and urban population alike either connived at , or were intimidated by , the activities of well-organised armed gangs . |
| 23 | As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality . |
| 24 | To her horror she came face to face with the two officers standing there with guns drawn . |
| 25 | Litigation itself brings them face to face with the enormous differences between the theory and practice of law . |
| 26 | So there we sat , Celie , face to face with the Olinka God . |
| 27 | Malhandir brought Tyrion face to face with the Witch King 's standard bearer . |
| 28 | Thus , they assert that the STV " puts the electors face to face with the candidates without interposing the party machine between them " . |
| 29 | If we are face to face with the person sending the message , then we notice what they are doing with their face , eyes , and body while speaking : maybe they smiled , or shook their fist , or looked away . |
| 30 | It was an odd sensation , coming face to face with the bogeyman of her childhood . |