Face is used with these nouns as the subject:
challenge, country, danger, dilemma, door, flat, house, immigrant, industry, issue, palm, peril, problem, room, task, wall, window

Face is used with these nouns as the object:
accusation, allegation, altar, annihilation, army, arrest, assault, axe, backlash, bankruptcy, barrage, barrier, batter, battle, bill, blackboard, camera, catastrophe, censure, challenge, challenger, chaos, charge, choice, closure, collapse, competition, competitor, consequence, constraint, court martial, courtyard, crisis, criticism, cross-examination, crossroads, crowd, cut, danger, deadline, death, decision, defeat, deficit, delay, demand, demon, deportation, depression, destiny, detention, difficulty, dilemma, direction, disadvantage, disappointment, disaster, discrimination, dismissal, enemy, enquiry, eviction, execution, expulsion, extinction, extradition, fact, famine, fate, fear, fight, fine, firing squad, future, hardship, hazard, hostility, humiliation, hurdle, imprisonment, indictment, intimidation, issue, jail, justice, limitation, mankind, mirror, mountain, mutiny, nightmare, obstacle, onslaught, opponent, opposition, oppression, ordeal, penalty, peril, persecution, pitcher, possibility, predicament, prejudice, pressure, prison, problem, prosecution, prospect, punishment, question, questioning, reality, rear, redundancy, repatriation, reprisal, resistance, retaliation, revolt, ridicule, rigour, risk, rival, roadblock, ruin, sack, scrutiny, sentence, setback, shake-up, shortage, showdown, situation, spectre, starvation, storm, struggle, suit, suspension, task, termination, test, threat, tragedy, trauma, trial, tribunal, truth, uncertainty, unemployment, unknown, wait, wall, world, wrath