Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 2 | A moving and painfully honest account of a mother 's struggle to come to terms with the death of her baby . |
| 3 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 4 | RACE HATE , rape fear , miscegenation , a battle-scarred outsider 's fight to come to terms with the new society — the themes of Ford 's massively influential movie would provide rich pickings for '70s brats in the years to come . |
| 5 | He spoke out as the development services committee was asked by Leech Homes to agree to changes in the types of houses to be built on land in Bankhead Street , Seaham . |
| 6 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 7 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 8 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 9 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 10 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 11 | It was J. A. Hobson who made the most influential and original attempt to come to grips with the nature of the new imperialism . |
| 12 | Brailsford deplored the incapacity of pacifists to get to grips with the larger drift of British foreign policy — the effective entry of Britain into the European alliance system . |
| 13 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 14 | Sources say SunPics was ‘ dragged kicking and screaming ’ into the brand new Sun Microsystems Inc and Adobe Computer Systems Inc alliance , ( UX No 404 ) , orchestrated by SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , one of the first of the Sun mafia to come to grips with the slippery notion of standards — prodded no doubt by the coming onslaught of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 15 | Perhaps most importantly the vendor should remember that the value of the consideration shares can go down as well as up and the purchaser may require the vendor to agree to restrictions on the manner and timing of subsequent sales of the shares by the vendor . |
| 16 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |
| 17 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 18 | One change that is associated with ageing and that will alter the rhythms of hormone release is the declining ability of the body to respond to instructions from the brain . |
| 19 | Sir , — There have been numerous reports this year of Ipswich Town 's failure to get to grips with the increased demand for tickets . |
| 20 | FAILURE to get to grips with the problem of young offenders will result in ‘ a natural breeding ground for long-term criminality and even terrorism ’ , the RUC Police Federation has warned . |
| 21 | More usually , Procedure Roll is a tactic employed by defenders to point to weaknesses in the pursuer 's case and require amendment to cure the defect . |
| 22 | It is clear that the micro is here to stay and it is the responsibility of personnel managers to come to terms with the new technology and use it to their advantage . |
| 23 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 24 | In fact the United States was already tilting towards Israel in order to prevent its economic collapse but intending to ‘ progressively reduce the amount of economic aid to Israel , so as to bring it into impartial relationship to aid to others in the area ’ . |
| 25 | It is also becoming more common for families to turn to lawyers during the course of investigation and before legal proceedings are even contemplated . |
| 26 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |
| 27 | Fund-holding GPs in the first year were less afraid to switch contracts to better units or consultants , could make more flexible contracts , demand more attention , and use their funds to encourage consultants to come to the surgery rather than rely on patients to go to outpatients in the hospital . |
| 28 | Iran-US relations remained at a low ebb during 1989 and early 1990 despite the new regime in Iran and US efforts under the new administration of President George Bush to come to terms with the Iranian government . |
| 29 | It seems that the majority of those attending courses or travelling to the national parks and other environmentally sensitive areas are relatively well-off , and their parents are using adventure , or at least what is perceived as being adventure , as a kind of finishing school for the modern citizen , without taking the trouble to come to terms with the environment in which this happens . |
| 30 | It is difficult for some people to come to grips with the fact that children do not have a higher priority than partners , because some people feel that the purpose of marriage is producing children and therefore it should be the highest priority . |