Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to term [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they , like the third Limerick club dominating the league — Young Munster — are only gradually coming to terms with the demands for 15-man attacking play . |
| 2 | It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone . |
| 3 | Ask Americans today who are only now coming to terms with the gross exploitation of native Indians and natural resources , which their forefathers accomplished in the name of ‘ progress ’ . |
| 4 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 5 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 6 | Becker 's surprising defeat by Spain 's Jordi Burillo in Barcelona last week suggests the former Wimbledon and world champion has still not come to terms with playing on the European clay , which predominates to the end of the French Open in early June . |
| 7 | Werking concluded that ‘ It is reasonable to assume that some research may now more satisfactorily come to terms with library use and its relation to bibliographic education ’ . |
| 8 | All this has happened because enormous sums of public money available for drainage schemes since the War have combined with a revolution in technology which we have not yet fully come to terms with . |
| 9 | She thought that although she might one day be able to accept this stupid time hiccup , she would never ever come to terms with these brief glimpses into another world ; as though a door had opened and closed and that , for a moment , she had stood with one foot on either side of the threshold . |
| 10 | You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything . |
| 11 | My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 13 | Wendy 's boyfriend was pleased with the idea of being a father at first but he could never really come to terms with the reality of it , nor his responsibilities . |
| 14 | Some of us never quite come to terms with the fact that penises come in all shapes and sizes . |
| 15 | ‘ Colonel Fagg has never quite come to terms with the end of the Second World War , I 'm afraid , Elsa . |