Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] term [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , Joanna , her mother and father John tell Penny Wark of their struggle to come to terms with tragedy . |
| 2 | In the sonnets involving the Dark Lady , however , with their tortuous triangular structure , the reader does stand apart , watching the poet 's attempt to come to terms with deception and exclusion : |
| 3 | As Piaget said himself when reporting his original data , it is just not possible to explain the seven-month-old 's failure to search in terms of memory failure ( that is the baby knows that objects exist unperceived but keeps forgetting that this object went behind there ) because if an organism had a memory this bad it would ipso facto lack object permanence . |
| 4 | For most students they are centred in the need to come to terms with failure . |
| 5 | These psychological pathologies are attributed to failure to come to terms with impairment ( Lindowski and Dunn , 1974 ; Shindi , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 7 | Again there is no need to think in terms of sex ; sexual versus asexual reproduction is a red herring here . |
| 8 | It could be a rewarding form of teaching to help an uninformed but well-motivated student to come to terms with poetry , but it would involve time and leisure . |
| 9 | It makes sense to account in terms of money when inflation is low . |
| 10 | Given this figural ‘ bias ’ built into the cinematic apparatus , it still makes sense to speak in terms of realist , modernist , and postmodernist films . |
| 11 | I have relatively high stakes in conformity — I happen to have done fairly well out of it ; I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended . |
| 12 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |