Example sentences of "[prep] coping with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer . |
| 2 | The NCT has been asked to help with a trial of treatment designed to show what is the best way of coping with the possible problems of inverted nipples for the breastfeeding mother . |
| 3 | Commercial attachés were not a complete answer to the problem of coping with the increasing volume and importance of economic diplomacy . |
| 4 | Receptive to the idea of ‘ doing something ’ about North Sea oil and its likely consequences for Orkney , of coping with the practical problems of planning applications , of conducting the old County Council and the new Orkney Islands Council along businesslike lines , and conscious of the growing body of government planning legislation , they accepted the idea of planned zones . |
| 5 | So the shore-line creatures adopt several different strategies for survival ; and animals from very different phyla — notably coelenterates , molluscs , crustaceans , and echinoderms — have found ( various ) ways of coping with the intertidal zones . |
| 6 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 7 | The career of paranoid psychotic attracts him , particularly as a way of coping with the inevitable consequence of his defiant style of living the criminal life . |
| 8 | Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury . |
| 9 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 10 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 11 | An important consideration at a general election is the success or failure of the government in power in coping with the economic situation . |
| 12 | ‘ She means , ’ the other twin chimed in , ‘ you are going to stay with us until Mummy and Daddy come out of the hos-hospital ? ’ she asked , finding difficulty in coping with the long word . |
| 13 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities the mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 14 | Some of the newly qualified teachers , perhaps , found some difficulties initially in coping with the wide range of abilities their mixed ability classes presented them with , and in some ways the school was not well provided with in-service support for mixed ability teaching and had to do a lot of their own work in terms of the appropriate methods to choose , the appropriate resources , the appropriate materials to develop . |
| 15 | That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year . |
| 16 | Perhaps a solution for the JTO 's that are finding difficulty in coping with the current situation would be for those of them that have both hard and grass courts at their club to run a two tier event , i.e. a Series tournament on the hard courts coupled with age group doubles and mixed on the grass . |
| 17 | This could prove very worthwhile in coping with the National Curriculum and its additional demands on staff . |
| 18 | One major reason for Japan 's success in coping with the high cost energy environment since 1979 has been the remarkable reduction in oil ( and total energy ) use without sacrificing economic growth . |
| 19 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 20 | In coping with the unsaid and unsayable , oral history is impelled towards aposiopesis . |
| 21 | Company publicity manager said : ‘ This shows that the national TV campaign has done its job and the visitors Centre staff have been magnificent in coping with the big increase in visitors . |
| 22 | World View : The virtues of old history : Lawrence Freedman argues that the key to coping with the future lies in past events |
| 23 | He had , still , many contacts in this field and it was yet another approach to coping with the surplus capacity produced by the Carno factory . |
| 24 | The new signalling system , known as automatic train protection , will be the biggest single item of expenditure arising from the crash , and is aimed at coping with the conflicting demands of high-density commuter trains and faster InterCity traffic on the same lines . |
| 25 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 26 | For almost the first decade of its existence , the resources of the Modular Course were entirely absorbed by coping with the first-order problems of survival and growth . |