Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them …
2 The studio almost immediately cast her in a cycle of prestigious ( if often meretricious ) ‘ women 's pictures ’ , including Edmund Goulding 's Dark Victory ( 1939 ) , which had her , in its famous climactic scene , walk upstairs to die in solitude with all the dignified serenity of an elephant trundling off to its ancestral graveyard ; Michael Curtiz 's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( also 1939 ) , in which she flaunted the Virgin Queen 's ( and her own ) baldness as the ultimate emblem of great , self-abasing character acting ; and , of course , Irving Rapper 's sudsy , multi-Kleenex tearjerker Now , Voyager ( 1942 ) , in which her repressed , plain-Jane spinster blossoms overnight into chic , radiant , cigarette-tapping womanhood .
3 The inhabitants of these shells extend long threads through pores with which they trap particles of food .
4 This cinema 's best attempt yet to come to terms with South Africa .
5 Anselm then returned to Rome with the pope and stayed with him until Easter 1099 , when he took part in another Council .
6 In the crudest sense , there are indeed ‘ young old ’ and ‘ old old ’ ; and although you can be either younger or older at any age , physical and mental disabilities do slowly cumulate on average with increasing years .
7 I do n't want to bump too hard against the plane 's fuselage in case we do actually come into contact with it .
8 We 've all fallen in love with our cover picture this month , and hope you will too — it 's got such a happy , festive feel .
9 I 've also fallen in love with the stereo .
10 They 've really got to grips with their environmental problems , facing them squarely , with common purpose .
11 The difficulty I think that we 're facing , is that it 's happening in year two of a four year transition period , before we 've really got to grips with what the long-term position is , what the overall demands are , and to what degree we are going to be able to model , change , control and , and influence those demands .
12 A lot of teachers jump to conclusions about pupils before they 've even come into contact with them and broken through the pupil 's resentment .
13 And of all the people I met , I have only kept in touch with one or two from Binbrook .
14 This is especially useful for those who live in cities or industrial areas where many have only come into contact with pets such as hamsters , goldfish , cats and dogs .
15 The Chamber , which I have already mentioned in connection with the political life of the court , was the area in which the monarch lived and moved .
16 We in the law , like other denizens of these blessed isles , have perforce come to terms with the disagreeable factor of inflation .
17 Although some students have a good grasp of colloquial language , few have ever got to grips with the concept of register .
18 If they have both come to terms with their differences and can now work together successfully , then they are to be congratulated .
19 Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care .
20 IF the more positive tone yesterday was any indication , investors have either come to grips with their fears of a hung parliament-Labour victory or are ignoring the polls altogether .
21 Given the economic significance of such groups , it may be surprising that neither Parliament nor the courts have yet got to grips with the problems they present .
22 The time it takes to fully implement T.Q.M. and the amount of work involved may be something that most of us have yet to come to terms with .
23 Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm .
24 If you do elect to have a full structural survey you can , of course , leave it to your building society or bank to select a surveyor for you , and you need never come in contact with him .
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