Example sentences of "to terms [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 2 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 3 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 4 | If its post cold-war generation is not to be continually confused by unexpected developments then they will need to come to terms with the dynamics of change . |
| 5 | Coming to terms with the idea that Sophie is different , Belinda finds making comparisons with so-called normal children increasingly meaningless : ‘ There is nothing abnormal about Sophie . |
| 6 | The meeting with Kremlin officials could mark another significant step by the Soviet leadership as it comes publicly to terms with the unpleasant truths of a hitherto denied past . |
| 7 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 8 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 9 | ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact - that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 12 | Sipping a large Armagnac and enjoying the heady aroma of a Havana cigar , he had come to terms with the fact that life could , and would go on . |
| 13 | In the mid-nineteenth century life expectation was rising , especially for the new middle class , and central and regional authorities were coming to terms with the urban influx , which had changed the face of Britain . |
| 14 | Among the forward-looking theologians who were trying to come to terms with the new scientific data was the Dean of St Paul 's , Canon H.L. Mansel , who gave the Bampton Lectures in 1858 . |
| 15 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 16 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 17 | Farmers have to come to terms with the market and look upon wholesalers and retailers as allies , not enemies . |
| 18 | It helped fourth-century Christians to come to terms with the paradox that the privileged , wealthy , and powerful post-Constantinian church actually was also the church of the martyrs . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Here a bereaved person will often come to terms with the person 's death by saying , ‘ Well he has physically gone , but he 's still with me in so many ways . |
| 21 | It 's an indication that they are working on it and what may seem to be an accepted fact one day can be vehemently denied the next as the bereaved person comes to terms with the loss . |
| 22 | This attitude reflects badly on the conference service industry and demonstrates that it has still not fully come to terms with the need for quality and a caring approach in its business . |
| 23 | An Italian proof-reader and old Party-member , nicknamed the Professore , tries to come to terms with the apparent bankruptcy of his own system of beliefs . |
| 24 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 25 | The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis . |
| 26 | They played out with sincerity the traumas of a couple going through rigorous assessment for adoptive parenthood , and of a single father , widowed and with a prison conviction , coming to terms with the loss of his children . |
| 27 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 28 | A small number are able to manipulate the new situation because they are able to get credit , to establish good terms of trade with middlemen and to generally come to terms with the different conditions . |
| 29 | In many instances , the mother of the child will wish to keep the child , but the father is unable to come to terms with the handicap , and the family is split up . |
| 30 | Only , therefore , when the public come to terms with the nature of mental handicap and break down the barriers of misunderstanding which have existed for centuries , will a real sense of understanding permeate our society . |