Example sentences of "[verb] to cope with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For police forces struggling to cope with record levels of crime , arresting people and locking them up is only half the battle .
2 Anxious clients can be taught to cope with stress .
3 Now psychologists at Edinburgh University have found that even young children can be taught to cope with traffic .
4 The headsail wardrobe currently consists of a non-overlapping working jib set on a furler , originally designed to cope with wind speeds between 10 and 35 knots plus .
5 The example cited is something like a dentist 's surgery where the system has to cope with payroll , patient records , appointments and the like .
6 Apart from possible dust and fungal spores from hay and straw , he also has to cope with ammonia from urine , carbon dioxide from his lungs , water vapour and so on .
7 A high position — 30mm above normal — can be manually selected to cope with flooding and snow .
8 Since 1984 Dagenham has had to cope with double the number of product changes at Halewood .
9 Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves .
10 The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market .
11 He felt considerably better the next morning and , upon reflection , decided to cope with Gesner by doing exactly nothing .
12 Visiting Australian , Sandy Guy , discusses what Bristol is doing to cope with family tragedies .
13 My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on .
14 HEALTH chiefs in Aberconwy have issued hygiene advice to flood victims who may be having to cope with flood-water contaminated with sewage .
15 The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love .
16 She now attends a drop-in centre which has a crèche and where she is learning to cope with stress .
17 As this liaison officer recognised , the basic level of skills training equipped them only for unskilled work and they had to learn to cope with compromise :
18 Unlike older people , these children have to learn to cope with recovery as they grow up .
19 Left to cope with door and phone
20 Community care is support for people who need help to cope with life as independently as possible , either in their own homes or in other accommodation in the community .
21 Stanley also had to cope with epilepsy , a fairly common complication following a stroke .
22 I 'm thinking particularly of the footpaths leading to and climbing up the side of Malham Cove , where artificial ways have had to be created to cope with erosion caused by millions of feet .
23 It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery .
24 She said : ‘ The irony is that people used to think I was terribly strong — particularly after that commercial — but I had never managed to cope with life at all .
25 In chapter 9 , one of the issues which will be examined will be whether social policy measures can help to cope with unemployment or whether it is primarily an economic problem .
26 Jobs are being shed as the industry fights to cope with recession at home and abroad , although the prospect of a continued fall in interest rates is starting to bolster confidence .
27 This has been described as the first ‘ social laboratory ’ where children can experiment with relationships and learn to cope with change , envy , competitiveness and rivalry — things that will help them to develop social skills .
28 The programme model is one of parent capacitation and empowerment so that parents learn to cope with child-rearing , finding their own solutions rather than increasing their dependence on professionals .
29 ‘ When you 've competed among 30 trialists for just two spots in college basketball , you learn to cope with pressure . ’
30 Gooch said : ‘ Teams have to cope with injury and illness .
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