Example sentences of "[verb] to cope with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not abandon people to the horrors of primitive siege warfare , so the ramshackle institutions of the United Nations will have to be drastically overhauled to cope with this crisis and others like it which are festering in an increasingly unstable world . |
| 2 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 3 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 4 | It is intended to cope with irregular plurals ( " child " — " children " ) , other morphological variation which is too context dependent to be handled algorithmically ( " Hebrides ' = " Hebridear " ) , abbreviations ( " BBC " = " British Broadcasting Corporation " ) , words with alternative spellings ( " gaol " = " jail " ) and near synonyms ( " Great Britain " = " United Kingdom " = " Britain " = " UK " = " British Isles " ) . |
| 5 | Overheating degrades battery electrolyte , and rechargeable types are designed to cope with this to a large extent , but dry cells are not . |
| 6 | Luminescence chambers are designed to cope with this and are tested up to specified voltages with metal targets as samples . |
| 7 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 8 | Damman , Saudi Arabia : Both International Paint Saudi Arabia and International Paint ( Gulf ) have taken delivery of high specification Hyster forklift trucks designed to cope with difficult environments . |
| 9 | They 're not designed to cope with cobbled streets . ’ |
| 10 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 11 | A typical consumer reaction is summed up by a correspondent writing earlier this year in the New Scientist concerning trends in digital car radio design : ‘ Previously it was simple , while driving to cope with two big knobs and six decent-sized push buttons to get a useful selection of stations . |
| 12 | This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |
| 13 | God has gone ahead of us to provide , in the suffering and death of his Son , all the special grace we may individually need to cope with evil and the abuse of love . |
| 14 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 15 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 16 | People who are mentally handicapped can not be expected to cope with many aspects of this AL independently . |
| 17 | Just as our eyes can see only that narrow band of electromagnetic frequencies that natural selection equipped our ancestors to see , so our brains are built to cope with narrow bands of sizes and times . |
| 18 | Commercial catering is a very harsh environment , proprietary manufacturers to the industry know this , and even PVC , nylon and polycarbonate materials are built to cope with ardous duty cycles . |
| 19 | One loch looks very much like any other and some are not even marked on the 1:50,000 map , so always be properly clad and prepared to cope with fickle weather conditions , before setting out . |
| 20 | The use of symbolic addressing is not fully exploited to cope with pre-existing forms of citation and for automated authoring of large quantities of text . |
| 21 | The standard has , however , left some uncertainty as to when and how adjustments should be made to cope with this problem . |
| 22 | Hope to cope with sexual abuse 0898 223 382 |
| 23 | Opponents frequently struggled to cope with that type of galvanising influence as Howard Wilkinson 's team may discover for themselves on their return to Villa Park tonight . |
| 24 | And if it does happen to you , how are you going to cope with all the household bills , which still have to be paid ? |
| 25 | She felt jubilant but apprehensive too , how was she going to cope with all the work ? |
| 26 | How how are you going to cope with those ? |
| 27 | It is difficult to see how Evans-Pritchard 's approach can begin to cope with this sort of variation in responses to a culture 's religion . |
| 28 | The new contract for General Practitioners now stipulates that all patients aged over 75 should be offered an annual check up and home visit where , if possible , assistance can be offered to cope with any undetected functional handicaps . |
| 29 | Yet even in developed countries there is concern about the extent of illiteracy among adults , and special classes are offered to cope with this problem . |
| 30 | The way you manage to cope with all the problems that life with an elderly parent may present will depend not only upon their magnitude , or the help you receive from others , but also on your attitude towards them , and your determination to live life just a day at a time , thus breaking your stress up into smaller and more manageable ‘ sections ’ . |