Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas childless people in the past sometimes needed counselling to come to terms with their childlessness , the current situation is more complex . |
| 2 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 3 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 4 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 5 | Mrs Hall , 75 , revealed that despite Judith 's brave face , she is still struggling to come to terms with the betrayal . |
| 6 | Dawn Wright , 23 , of Hollywell , who is still struggling to come to terms with her tragedy , believes the burglars must have known who she was . |
| 7 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 8 | Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and , incidentally , deceives no one else for long . |
| 9 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 10 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 11 | How are we going to come to terms with the ageing process , once we notice it ? |
| 12 | ‘ How 's the lad ever going to come to terms with death the way you carry on ? ’ |
| 13 | Morrissey was attempting to come to terms with the emptiness of success which , in moments of depression , was as numbing as past days of failure . |
| 14 | So , you know , if you 're going to talk in terms of losses , then it does suggest , heaven forbid that the allies have got to lose a tremendous number of aircraft before the equation sort of balances . |
| 15 | We form intentions to remember and categorize and order what we are going to remember in terms of our past experience . |
| 16 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 17 | In assessing the impact that rail travel 's going to have in terms of travel patterns form the new settlement , I think that one important consideration that the panel should have regard to is the location of York 's s station relative to the City Centre . |
| 18 | I was going to speak in terms of numbers George it was just a wee thought that if there 's going to be three or four of them we want at least eight of us if not it 's gon na be a bit |
| 19 | ‘ All hell rules over the man who is angry , ’ says the Talmud , and by September 1939 , when Leonard was beginning to come to terms with the thresholds of life 's reality , hell was ruling the world , or at least appeared to be . |
| 20 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 21 | Ann-Marie is now beginning to come to terms with the night their celebration for both landing new jobs turned to tragedy . |
| 22 | But in his last job , Mr Redwood was just beginning to come to terms with Labour council leaders . |
| 23 | We are only beginning to come to terms with it . |
| 24 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 25 | By the end of the morning pupils were discussing the materials , relating the different activities and using information already gained and also beginning to think in terms of a wide-ranging , long-term project in which they were all involved . |
| 26 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 27 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 28 | The above examples seek to reflect the magnitude of the changes in systems and procedures that local government is having to come to terms with under differing sets of recent legislation . |
| 29 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 30 | The Catholic community , especially in the Northern part of the diocese was undergoing , as indeed was the whole area , a gradual process of change , having to come to terms with a broader view of Church and society which sat rather uncomfortably with long held views . |