Example sentences of "to cope with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Rachel went to a private room in the pavilion and changed into her going-away outfit , a green silk dress with a little matching bolero of thin silk to cope with the climates of both Hong Kong and Thailand .
2 To cope with the peaks and troughs of road transport operation , the busy haulier will need to consider hiring in outside drivers .
3 It was a brilliant display of this team 's ability to cope with the difficulties imposed by introducing a new chassis and engine .
4 The measures which we can use include indications that the animal is failing to cope with its environment ( with the difficulties which it encounters ) and measures of how hard it is for that individual to cope with the difficulties .
5 It said poorer women saw cigarettes as a ‘ necessary luxury ’ to cope with the difficulties of caring for a family on a tight budget .
6 They are said to regard cigarettes as a ‘ necessary luxury ’ to cope with the difficulties of caring for a family and managing on a low income .
7 The suspension was typically soggy yet still failed to cope with the craters that pass for potholes in New York City .
8 The teachers themselves sometimes feel untrained to cope with the syllabuses .
9 Nevertheless , certain commentators ( particularly Atkinson , 1984 ; Meager , 1985 ) have seized upon these or similar examples and Presented them as showing the direction which personnel policy ( and here their writings are rather unclear ) is , or should be taking to cope with the challenges posed by a rapidly changing , increasingly competitive economic environment .
10 And people have got to be able to cope with the challenges .
11 The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation .
12 However , Australian conservationists feel that in this , as in many aspects of environmental protection , the onus is on them to show the rest of the world how to cope with the problems .
13 There is no satisfactory treatment for herpes simplex infections and the best that can be offered is medication to ease the symptoms and possibly cut short an attack , and advice on how to cope with the problems that recurrent herpes brings .
14 The modern way is to meet a group of patients over a party-type meal and discuss how to cope with the problems that may arise .
15 A 14 year-old boy or girl , leaving school for the big world outside ( unless academically suited for college and university ) , would be well-equipped to cope with the problems of work and making a living .
16 And if we do automate , will we be able to cope with the problems of large-scale unemployment ?
17 It is when morale is very low that we find it difficult to cope with the problems and difficulties of life , and when counselling can become vitally important .
18 Another factor driving women to the bottle is that more and more are having to cope with the problems of bringing up a child alone .
19 The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government .
20 It is not surprising that , since Buckland 's editorial was written , the neatly expressive classificatory structure illustrated in his example has now been discarded to cope with the problems of fixed length codes and a single hierarchy .
21 committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems .
22 Vietnamese Communism had to cope with the problems of economic reconstruction in an area devastated by the years of war , and also with the integration of the South into the methods of social administration and economic management that were used in the North .
23 Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down , with the various national archives taken a leading role ( Higgs 1992 ) .
24 Grassland life is much the same the world over , and horses and litopterns independently evolved the same qualities to cope with the problems of grassland life .
25 Professionals and businesses that stand in fiduciary relationships with their customers have always had to cope with the problems that arise when they owe conflicting duties to different clients , or their own interests conflict with those of a client .
26 Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie .
27 Nurses in that sector have to cope with the effects on their patients of poor housing conditions and a deteriorating social fabric .
28 Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered .
29 In 1973 , under the direction of the Scottish Development Department , the old County Council of Orkney commissioned a firm of planning consultants to draw up first of all an interim strategy and then a Structure Plan to cope with the consequences surrounding the construction of an oil-terminal on the island of Flotta , and with the possibility of further North Sea oil activity taking place within the county .
30 * the user has perhaps to budget for the cost of the item , and will wish to maximise the value for money he or she can obtain from the expenditure ; * the user has to cope with the consequences of late delivery , faulty products , breakdowns and servicing requirements ( etc ) ; * the user will be concerned with product reliability and supplier reputation .
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