Example sentences of "[v-ing] to come [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas childless people in the past sometimes needed counselling to come to terms with their childlessness , the current situation is more complex . |
| 2 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 3 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 4 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 5 | Mrs Hall , 75 , revealed that despite Judith 's brave face , she is still struggling to come to terms with the betrayal . |
| 6 | Dawn Wright , 23 , of Hollywell , who is still struggling to come to terms with her tragedy , believes the burglars must have known who she was . |
| 7 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 8 | Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and , incidentally , deceives no one else for long . |
| 9 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 10 | It had nothing to do with Sheringham wanting to come to London . |
| 11 | A bitch will alter depending on whether she is in season , in false pregnancy or waiting to come on heat . |
| 12 | Now once again we know about this because Edward Heath was given another job , just about nine months later , the king had decided he would summon a parliament in Oxford erm and in January '44 it was due to meet , but where were the members who were going to come into Oxford to stay . |
| 13 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 14 | ‘ At present anyone who deals with sexual abuse is going to come across people over whose dead bodies they are going to continue to work , ’ she says . |
| 15 | There 's no way I 'm going to come to Sussex . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He is going to come to Donegal more determined than ever , ’ says Fisher . |
| 17 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 18 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 19 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 20 | How are we going to come to terms with the ageing process , once we notice it ? |
| 21 | ‘ How 's the lad ever going to come to terms with death the way you carry on ? ’ |
| 22 | What about this mum 's army of teachers is this going to come to fruition as some point or not ? |
| 23 | Though he had yet to appear on the dim-lit stage , I knew he was going to come for Kingsley Amis . |
| 24 | There 's new developments going to come on stream this year . |
| 25 | Erm but one , one one , I mean cl clearly the policy which was pursued was one of inequality and there was a rich peasant economy and either you say well yes there is , there is an economic imperative for that and that 's the explanation or you say well there might have been a political factor involved in this that there was a recognition that progress was going to come through class conflict and therefore if you are actually promoting the kind of you might realize it was happening and you might be more prepared |
| 26 | Peterson , who stayed behind with Lotus , began the season with a pole position in Argentina but failed to finish ; Emerson won one of his three races at home in Brazil ; but it was already plain that the main opposition was going to come from Regazzoni and Lauda and the Ferraris , who were on one of their ascendant curves , Lauda in fact winning his first grand prix in Spain in April . |
| 27 | Professor James believes that the main changes are going to come from prevention and that improving our diet is the surest way to lower the risk of heart disease . |
| 28 | Miss Honey asked , waiting for the ‘ yes ’ that she felt certain was going to come from Matilda . |
| 29 | Are you going to come in October ? ’ |
| 30 | Morrissey was attempting to come to terms with the emptiness of success which , in moments of depression , was as numbing as past days of failure . |