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

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1 Without the proper equipment — stiff-soled boots , crampons and ice axes — and the experience in using them , it is virtually impossible to cope with neve .
2 It takes a tough , well organized subordinate to cope with management by inertia .
3 To counter the first fear of specialisation , ‘ disabling ’ clients is certainly not the objective of casework , and advisers must resist the personal satisfaction that they may get from acting on behalf of a client when that client may well have been able to cope with assistance alone .
4 John Coon , DG 's UK marketing manager , says Technology will be better able to cope with support , and also has a large stock of peripherals on hand .
5 The authors therefore examined the data for explanations as to why some women were more vulnerable than others , or , expressed another way , why some women seemed resilient to , or protected from , or were able to cope with adversity such that they did not develop clinical depression .
6 Many people emerge from therapy far better adjusted and able to cope with life than others who have not been compelled by illness to work through loss and learn to know themselves .
7 Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years .
8 O K then that 's right , you go and sit down , get yourself together again , and get back to being able to cope with life .
9 It is already working with Ingres and Oracle on prototype databases for its server , which will be able to cope with SQL queries from a variety of sources including OpenVME systems and DRS6000 Unix boxes .
10 All adults need to be able to cope with diversity and to expect variety as we live in a highly varied world .
11 Teenage mothers are least able to cope with motherhood , being often themselves emotionally immature and sometimes physically immature ( Russell 1981 ) .
12 Jenna felt more able to cope with dignity in her own language and the girl 's face creased into a knowing smile .
13 Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people .
14 They must be able to cope with aridity , high daily and seasonal temperature ranges , seasonal swings in photoperiod from long days to long nights , and a growing season ranging in length from three to four months on the polar fringes to a few days or even hours in higher latitudes .
15 She became informally imprisoned in the family maisonette , unable to cope with cooking , visitors , or any kind of isolation .
16 In 825 the Mercians were heavily defeated by the West Saxons , and were subsequently unable to cope with Viking raids .
17 The amount of rain that was falling made this sure to be one of the first places to flood , and though the cubs were growing fast , they were still too small to cope with flood conditions .
18 As we have said , it exactly matches the needs of people who budget weekly , are probably paid weekly , and would find it difficult to cope with credit where paying in was left up to them .
19 ‘ Young people especially find it difficult to cope with death so they make up jokes about what 's happened to make it easier . ’
20 The pylons proposal , which the NGC says is necessary to cope with electricity from a new power station at Wilton , has received a further setback .
21 Er the Department 's consultants identified that that would n't be sufficient to cope with traffic flows on the M sixty two er and indeed suggested as as an option er that traffic a new a new route could be created er along from the M sixty five at , the A fifty six and A fifty nine to Skipton , er and then pointed a red arrow in the direction of the A fifty nine across to the A one .
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