Example sentences of "[vb base] get [prep] grips [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you really want to get to grips with inland detecting , then I suggest you learn a little Portuguese and try to make yourself understood to any of the farmers who invariably can be seen selling oranges by the roadside .
2 People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out .
3 Once you 've got to grips with your machine ( whichever the model ) there are several accessories you can buy to extend your knitting .
4 However , we will have to leave this for now with a sense of pessimism , because we will find no way forward until we have got to grips with forces other than production change which , very much in interaction with production change , are constitutive of civil society and of social being .
5 There 's obviously been a misunderstanding there , a lack of communication or whatever , but whereas some departments have got to grips with the issue , unfortunately police wor finance working party just stuck to the traditional way , rather reminiscent of Mr 's old budget working party days , which does n't get to grips with the real needs and the real costs .
6 Have to get to grips with what this does to the image .
7 It is not enough , therefore , to say that more women should do science , or that domestic economy should be compulsory for both sexes ; we have to get to grips with the ways in which ‘ femininity ’ is consistently devalued , both in society generally and specifically in the education system .
8 Jet lag , culture shock , altitude sickness ; we struggle to get to grips with this , our first morning in South America .
9 Do n't forget that while third party software authors struggle to get to grips with OLE 2 , Microsoft has been demonstrating how prototypes will work using its own applications software .
10 We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not
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