Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after some success at Meredith Jones 's youth club and after getting on terms with Philip Burton , the great tide of energy which just wanted release , to get on , to get out , funnelled into the notion that he might be an actor . |
| 2 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 3 | Indeed the Federation of Working Men 's Clubs set up by Oxford House directly assisted the young Oxford missionary in developing the " knack of mingling on terms of personal equality with men , while yet by some je ne sais quoi in himself " , preserving " their freely accorded social homage " . |
| 4 | This way of looking at terms and not deciding their status until there has been a breach is very useful as it gives a welcome degree of flexibility to contracts , although it could be criticized for introducing uncertainty . |
| 5 | Poets often express fear of ageing in terms of loss of physical beauty and sexual powers . |
| 6 | I mean I thought personally that erm appendix one which was the initial submission was rather better erm in connection with the exception of three appendix one , it 's rather better than you know appendix two is sort of drafted in terms of , of , of , of . |
| 7 | For those who do not have much real competence in other languages , there is the possibility of coming to terms with poems in the older , more remote forms of English . |
| 8 | The SD agency in Würzburg even reported criticism of the fanaticism shown by Hitler and Göring which dispelled any hope of coming to terms with the enemy and meant the continuation on all sides of the ‘ war of annihilation ’ . |
| 9 | But there is a sense in which a rehearsal is the process of coming to terms with a great resistance . |
| 10 | In the '80s Scottish football was confronted with the monumental task of coming to terms with a new financial era . |
| 11 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the practical problems of care , the family is faced with the sadness of coming to terms with change in a person they have known and probably loved all their life . |
| 13 | Decentralisation is also his way of coming to terms with the European Community : he is a Eurosceptic who will not hasten economic and monetary union . |
| 14 | And most of us , gaining in wisdom and experience , find ways of coming to terms with this . ’ |
| 15 | The journey through painful feelings is part of coming to terms with troubled emotions , and then devising a realistic strategy for emotional and social survival and the re-commencement of personal growth . |
| 16 | For me , death , like sexuality , was an aspect of the adult world , with which I felt myself incapable of coming to terms . |
| 17 | About 27 relatives will visit the site in mountains above the Nepalese capital of Katmandu as a way of coming to terms with their grief . |
| 18 | Now Chris Sheehan , pivotal Starling , is an ex-user , and he 's clearly become psychologically dependent on using music as a cathartic way of coming to terms with his past . |
| 19 | Then she had nodded slowly , and said , ‘ Sylvie , you know that you 've found yourself an elaborate means of coming to terms with your own childhood . |
| 20 | A simply colossal effort of coming to terms with oneself . |
| 21 | His experiences of coming to terms with blindness are described in Touching the Rock , published by SPCK earlier this year . |
| 22 | In this chapter we have pointed to the importance of coming to terms with the British constitution and constitutional theory since they are both in and about British politics . |
| 23 | All these months of coming to terms with Mark 's death , of setting her own life back on its tracks , even if it was only in a superficial way , and somehow , just when Robyn had thought she had it all under control , had regained her equilibrium , this arrogant man had appeared and set her world in turmoil with his derision and scorn . |
| 24 | Twenty-year-old Peake not only scored the goal which put Pool on their way to a desperately needed win , he was also one of only a handful of players on either side who looked capable of coming to terms with the gale-force wind and bumpy pitch . |
| 25 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |
| 26 | De Man expresses the universal significance of an allegory of reading in terms of this tautology : We can see the confusion here between the narrative of the novel and the narrative constructed by reading , effected by the idea that one is the allegory of the other . |
| 27 | If , as seems likely , the trend continues for the curricular domination of individual subjects to be supplemented or indeed replaced by a more fluid organization of learning in terms of either modular units or work-related competencies , this is also likely to strengthen the support for records of achievement with or without a component of external examination . |
| 28 | The adverse consequences to the health of men in their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades could thus be considerable and might well counterbalance the small benefit of screening in terms of reduced deaths . |
| 29 | Grammatical gender developed , therefore , when speakers passed to a higher level of reasoning in terms of general principles . |
| 30 | The third step is to describe the child 's current level of functioning in terms of verbal behaviour , and to identify the environmental contingencies which serve to maintain that behaviour . |