Example sentences of "[prep] coping with " in BNC.
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| 1 | His foresight has been especially important in transforming the ITF from a largely amateur , mainly non-international organisation , with a staff of just four plus a part-time accountant , into an all-embracing tennis authority , with a staff of 40 , capable of coping with increasing demands and responsibilities . |
| 2 | People who ‘ expect ’ older people to have worsening health or to ‘ decline ’ in their faculties , may not have a positive approach to various ways of coping with physical and mental changes . |
| 3 | That hair looks as though it 'll take a lot of coping with . ’ |
| 4 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 5 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 6 | But the reason they can not press on to victory is transparent : the central planning dear to people like Mr Li and Mr Chen stands no chance of coping with 20m or more urban unemployed , a labour force that will grow by 95m in the next five years and rising expectations of wealth . |
| 7 | He could usually find , in his armoury of comic routines , some way of dealing with people , of coping with distressing or threatening situations . |
| 8 | There are ways of coping with all these five kinds of events . |
| 9 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 10 | The loss of her leg was a devastating experience ; apart from the practical side of coping with hair loss due to the chemotherapy ( radiation treatment for cancer ) and the difficulties of learning to walk with her artificial leg , Ann 's self-image underwent an enormous change . |
| 11 | So the shore-line creatures adopt several different strategies for survival ; and animals from very different phyla — notably coelenterates , molluscs , crustaceans , and echinoderms — have found ( various ) ways of coping with the intertidal zones . |
| 12 | When two or more creatures that are unrelated all evolve similar ways of coping with a particular circumstance , this is called convergent evolution . |
| 13 | For golfers , wearing the dress of the day , — tailored tweed jackets and trousers , leather boots , and carrying well-made bags of up to 30 heavy-weight clubs ( according to former 1920's caddy Charles Robins ) — the prospects of coping with certain of Henley 's holes must have been daunting without a caddie . |
| 14 | The NCT has been asked to help with a trial of treatment designed to show what is the best way of coping with the possible problems of inverted nipples for the breastfeeding mother . |
| 15 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 16 | He truly did think they were capable of coping with this looney sport . |
| 17 | I happen to have half a dozen , and there is one , just one , that I am allowing you the privilege of riding , because I think you are capable of coping with it . |
| 18 | Following this , conservation became an economic imperative , a way of coping with massive cost increases , and the effects were startling . |
| 19 | Similarly you list all the phone calls , meetings , documents produced and processed and other activities such as specific work contacts in order to devise a better way of coping with these factors . |
| 20 | One way of coping with such anxiety is to prepare the subordinate first with special training , if necessary off the job . |
| 21 | In the early and middle part of the decade they were being urged to leave the workforce as soon as possible , as a way of coping with high unemployment and large numbers of school leavers . |
| 22 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
| 23 | The most common difficulty found with hardware was that of coping with noisy lines and of getting through to the services . |
| 24 | In this Paper , the government recognises that the problem of coping with rising demand and ever-widening ranges of treatments will not simply be solved by injecting more and more money . |
| 25 | Time was also spent exploring the consequences of the overdose and finding alternative ways of coping with similar problems in the future . |
| 26 | Margaret agreed to be seen at home by the therapist initially for three sessions , to help her express her feelings of grief about the loss of her husband , and to explore ways of coping with her practical problems . |
| 27 | Day-patient care allows close monitoring of the patient 's state while encouraging exploration and development of better ways of coping with problems , which can be enhanced with group therapy techniques ( Temple and Catalan 1977 ) . |
| 28 | However , no one has seriously challenged the view that attempted suicide should be regarded as an inappropriate way of coping with problems . |
| 29 | Both May and Bert in The Residents chapter suffer from chronic pain , and have developed their own ways of coping with it . |
| 30 | This alienates Elizabeth even more , so that she now regards her job as an oasis in a desert of coping with Harry 's lack of direction . |