Example sentences of "it [adj] to come to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But despite the positive counselling they may well receive , many parents , especially fathers , find it impossible to come to terms with the nature of their son or daughter .
2 Middlesbrough found it impossible to come to terms with the Israeli as he snatched two first-half goals .
3 Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you .
4 But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement .
5 Other indigenous elderly people with set ideas may find it hard to come to terms with living in a multiracial community , and being offered care by a member of a minority group .
6 ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . )
7 Patients may find it difficult to come to terms with which of their friends , co-workers and employers did , or did not , communicate with them during hospitalisation .
8 Her mother is fairly fit but still finding it difficult to come to terms with her husband 's death .
9 Children find it difficult to come to terms with the responsibilities involved , and parents find it difficult to relinquish them .
10 Solicitors , teachers , members of the Police force , self-employed businesspeople and , in particular , employees in the health service are finding it difficult to come to terms with changes at work and home .
11 They have genuinely found it difficult to come to terms with the rout that has taken place — the complete volte-face .
12 The age of capital found it difficult to come to terms with this problem .
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