Example sentences of "reconcile [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 2 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 3 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 4 | But Lib Dem Coun Flo Clukas said officers should reconcile themselves to the fact that Option 3 will go ahead and should put plans into place . |
| 5 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 6 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 7 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 8 | Lothar then joined the rebels : his great expectations affirmed in 817 , he had never reconciled himself to the role of mere " emperor in waiting " , ousted meanwhile from the Frankish heartlands and " sent to Italy " . |
| 9 | Churchill indeed was so overcome with the romance of it all that he briefly reconciled himself to the departure of the British from his beloved India . |
| 10 | Although the people of Stowey had by degrees reconciled themselves to the presence of Coleridge , who lived in their midst with his wife and child , Wordsworth 's arrival at remote Alfoxden , with a young woman said to be his sister , provided much greater scope for speculation . |
| 11 | But rightwing members of Congress have never reconciled themselves to the return of the canal to the Panamanians . |
| 12 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 13 | Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance . |