Example sentences of "[prep] cope with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 2 | Time was also spent exploring the consequences of the overdose and finding alternative ways of coping with similar problems in the future . |
| 3 | One way of coping with such anxiety is to prepare the subordinate first with special training , if necessary off the job . |
| 4 | In Kleisthenic Athens and in the Cyrene of Demonax ( see p. 59 ) , as also in the Rome of Servius Tullius , such tribal changes , compromises between the criteria of family descent and physical residence , were a way of coping with new claimants to citizenship ; and perhaps the same is true of Corinth , which needed to enfranchise immigrant craftsmen and the population of freshly incorporated and conquered areas , thus strengthening the citizen body . |
| 5 | In early September de la Mare minuted that the American military government was patently incapable of coping with Korean problems . |
| 6 | Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) . |
| 7 | His foresight has been especially important in transforming the ITF from a largely amateur , mainly non-international organisation , with a staff of just four plus a part-time accountant , into an all-embracing tennis authority , with a staff of 40 , capable of coping with increasing demands and responsibilities . |
| 8 | For golfers , wearing the dress of the day , — tailored tweed jackets and trousers , leather boots , and carrying well-made bags of up to 30 heavy-weight clubs ( according to former 1920's caddy Charles Robins ) — the prospects of coping with certain of Henley 's holes must have been daunting without a caddie . |
| 9 | The best way of coping with that sort of thing was to state firmly but courteously that she was n't prepared to comment . |
| 10 | There are ways of coping with all these five kinds of events . |
| 11 | The first problem is to find a chef capable of translating your ideas into practice , and also capable of coping with all the various demands to be made of him . |
| 12 | A more modest role model is offered in Suzy ( Chapman , 1982 ) which illustrates in a simple way some of the practicalities of coping with poor sight in day-to-day situations on the ways that friends can help . |
| 13 | It not only leaves a catalogue of unresolved hurts , it surfaces in an apprehensive and unrealistic way of coping with present difficulties . |
| 14 | The most common difficulty found with hardware was that of coping with noisy lines and of getting through to the services . |
| 15 | Women with bulimia may have begun to develop the condition as a method of coping with earlier traumatic events . |
| 16 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 17 | The coexistence of standard English grammar and dialect grammar gives rise to educational problems , and the burden of coping with these is usually assigned to teachers . |
| 18 | They can also learn that there are lots of ways that people have of coping with these things , and thereby increasing their , you know , coping strategies — technical term — but their ways of handling things . |
| 19 | Erm but again you 've got to try and think of ways of coping with any difficulties that you 've got . |
| 20 | He could usually find , in his armoury of comic routines , some way of dealing with people , of coping with distressing or threatening situations . |
| 21 | Rather , it was a way of coping with some of the contradictions thrown up by the rise of Fordism . |
| 22 | I am not at all persuaded that if offers a way of coping with human agency . |
| 23 | But they also need to have their own anxieties answered ( for example , about side-effects of the drugs ) , and , in dealing with a severe and recurring disorder , they need periodic relief from their caring responsibility , advice on financial supplements available and a knowledge of good ways of coping with difficult behaviour on the part of their disturbed relative . |
| 24 | In the early and middle part of the decade they were being urged to leave the workforce as soon as possible , as a way of coping with high unemployment and large numbers of school leavers . |
| 25 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 26 | He truly did think they were capable of coping with this looney sport . |
| 27 | It transpired that Hannah was well capable of coping with this sudden celebrity status , displaying a curiously ingenuous confidence as in later months she met people ranging from royalty to hard-nosed journalists , and completely disarmed them all . |
| 28 | If you are under pressure in your own life , with heavy business or family responsibilities , and find that , much as you would like to do so , you can not spend a whole day , or even a whole evening with your parent , there are several ways of coping with this , according to your circumstances . |
| 29 | Religious ideas offer a way of coping with this situation by suggesting that these events occur perhaps to punish men for wrongdoing , and that the gods who cause these happenings can be placated by worship and sacrifices . |
| 30 | There are two ways of coping with this disparity . |