Example sentences of "[verb] with the problem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 2 | The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV . |
| 3 | He should be grappling with the problem of how to stay alive , but instead could think of nothing but the problem of Jess . |
| 4 | Lynn Eaton looks at how staff in one SSD are grappling with the problem |
| 5 | One corner of the Instrumentation and Control Board activities was concerned for weeks or months with grappling with the problem . |
| 6 | Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem . |
| 7 | And this is paralleled with the problem , if they were endotherms , of their burning food up too quickly . |
| 8 | During the 1920s , however , the clash between these two legacies of the Great War for socialists was to become a central issue in their attempts to grapple with the problem of unemployment . |
| 9 | Secondly , the profession needs to grapple with the problem of substandard training in research . |
| 10 | New accountability processes have to grapple with the problem of legitimising managerial autonomy and discretion ( to achieve results ) with the need to give real rather than fictional accounts to the various publics with which the organisation interacts . |
| 11 | But Jane Sloan , of Cornwall SSD , feel more money needs to be made available as ‘ we have n't got enough money to get the resources to work with the problem . |
| 12 | Nicholas , presented with the problem of capitulated Kyrenia , adopted his best bulldog stance and based himself , perforce , in the north in the weeks after his marriage . |
| 13 | I quoted examples showing that significant changes in organizations can be catalysed by the presence of even a single individual who is willing to engage with the problem deeply , persistently and openly . |
| 14 | Both these cases , while they are addressed to the distinct issues of whether history is accidental or planned , and whether it is accidental or law-governed , exemplify a widespread failure to engage with the problem of holism . |
| 15 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 16 | Wales manager Robert Norster revealed : ‘ Tony has suffered with the problem for quite a while , and the doctor said it had to be put in plaster . ’ |
| 17 | In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time . |
| 18 | However , back in England Florence Nightingale and William Rathbone [ qq.v. ] were wrestling with the problem of starting a district-nursing scheme for London and they persuaded Florence Lees to return and ‘ harness her great cleverness ’ to conducting a survey of the nursing needs of London . |
| 19 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 20 | A third booklet , called Shading , deals with the problem of light/dark effects produced on carpet pile under natural or artificial lighting ( the effect will change if the pile is brushed in a different direction ) ; it costs 80p , including p&p . |
| 21 | This chapter deals with the problem of understanding historical questions . |
| 22 | No later Turkish author really deals with the problem except Ismail Belig , who , in his article on Molla Yegan , states that the latter succeeded Molla Fenari as muderris at the Manastir medrese in 771/1369–70 and as kadi of Bursa in 822/1419 when Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage and spent some time in Egypt on his return . |
| 23 | The Labour Party wrestled with the problem by linking demands for disarmament with plans for legislation guaranteeing the Right to Work . |
| 24 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
| 25 | A series of review panels wrestled with the problem and provided a series of responses . |
| 26 | To compound matters , the Scots lost Appleson with a back spasm during that tie , the London Scot having been bothered with the problem since training on an undulating pitch earlier in the week . |
| 27 | Like many other aspects of twentieth-century thought and culture , both modernism and postmodernism negotiate with the problem that ‘ we can know the real ’ , as Linda Hutcheon puts it , ‘ only through signs ’ , and , based on arbitrary relations between signifier and signified , language and sign may sheer away from the reality they seek to represent ( Hutcheon 1988 : 230 ) . |
| 28 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 29 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 30 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |