Example sentences of "to cope with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She simply did n't know how to cope with the strange , inexplicable feelings of desire which were increasingly racking her mind and body . |
| 2 | It will mean added congestion on roads , which are barely adequate to cope with the present traffic , not to mention more people brought into what is now a pleasant rural area . |
| 3 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 4 | Some of the latest equipment is designed to use automation to cope with the combined problems of filtration and misuse of equipment by staff . |
| 5 | He speaks , of course , in German , but the booklet carries an English translation by LS , who strives gamely to cope with the often-pretentious language being used here and in the accompanying notes . |
| 6 | Peking officials now seek to excuse the June atrocities by claiming — all too credibly — that they had neither the resources nor the expertise to cope with the escalating civil disorder culminating in the Tiananmen Square assault . |
| 7 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 8 | But preceding this , for the church , unprecedented unity such as is necessary to cope with the vast numbers flowing into the kingdom has been seen . |
| 9 | But the task was increasingly beyond them , as social surveys showed the inability of the welfare services to cope with the specific needs of the aged , the disabled , and one-parent families . |
| 10 | One or two short climbs in cloud do not prove the ability of a pilot to cope with the required longer periods of concentration and more varied conditions in larger clouds . |
| 11 | One day , illness , or the realization that she no longer possesses the strength to cope with the unremitting hardships of a stock farm and the 365-days-a-year toil , will force her to leave . |
| 12 | This it at once began to use to hamper the government 's efforts to cope with the desperate financial situation . |
| 13 | ‘ Er — wha-what time is it ? ’ she mumbled , her mind too sleepy and uncoordinated to cope with the sharp , quivering response that gripped her stomach as she blinked nervously up at her husband . |
| 14 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 15 | It does seem to me that young professional cricketers should be able temperamentally to cope with the occasional excesses of the Fourth Estate . |
| 16 | It could n't be easy to cope with the emotional strain of a missing husband and do his job at the same time . |
| 17 | On the Chinese side the temptation to retreat into a mood of self-critical isolation has many precedent from the past century of modern history — a history which has been largely determined by the perplexing question of how to cope with the outside world . |
| 18 | Some of the details are nicely done such as the antiquated ceramic water bottle offered by the porter to enable them to cope with the freezing bedrooms . |
| 19 | Many of the difficulties experienced by users trying to cope with the idiosyncratic Shifting system could be solved through adding extra keys to handle the more commonly occurring characters such as the punctuation , mathematical symbols and Delete . |
| 20 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 21 | Amongst other things , the consultants recommended the adoption of a housing policy to cope with the increasing number of planning applications for private houses which were then coming from recently-arrived oil-workers and newly-prosperous Orcadians , as well as the likelihood of even more applications in the future . |
| 22 | As we near 2000 we can expect to see not only more networking , but also networks that operate at higher speed and with greater capacity to cope with the increasing demands of modern computer applications such as ‘ multimedia ’ . |
| 23 | The Healthcare branch and depot is a new one , created to cope with the increasing demand for our hygiene services in washroom and toilet facilities in all types of commercial , industrial and public buildings . |
| 24 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 25 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 26 | Last week , chairman Lord Alexander bit the bullet : Frost became deputy chairman , freeing him to cope with the re-opened Department of Trade and Industry probe . |
| 27 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 28 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 29 | When , in March 1858 , the need to cope with the technical questions to which emancipation gave rise led to the creation of two new sections within the ministry — the Land Department and the Statistical Department — it was hardly surprising that Lanskoi and Miliutin staffed them with people who combined specialist knowledge with liberal sympathies . |
| 30 | Whilst this may look like easy fun for those who did not have to cope with the impossible timetables and endless pressures , the reason for criticism is not to deride the working groups but to understand in concrete terms the limitations of the system now in operation . |