Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be a real privilege to meet an older person who has experienced considerable loss in their life and has come to terms with it . |
| 2 | But she has come to terms with Britain belonging to the European Community and is likely to back the introduction of proportional representation . |
| 3 | Speaking at a conference on the ‘ Future of the Irish Country House ’ ( 26 February ) , the Prime Minister of Ireland , Albert Reynolds made a statement of profound importance about how Ireland has come to terms with its Anglo-Irish past , at least so far as its architecture is concerned . |
| 4 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 5 | If the gay individual has come to terms with his or her inclinations and is happy in them , there seems little reason to interfere . |
| 6 | By and large the world of commerce has come to terms with word processing , be it a simple electronic typewriter , an Amstrad PCW or a full-blown secretarial system running on dedicated PCs . |
| 7 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 8 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 9 | The workload of senior managers has broadened in terms of organisation , administration and business development . |
| 10 | Iran has consistently produced more than its quota , securing exports by discounting below the OPEC release price and though it has benefited in terms of revenues in the short term , has certainly been partly instrumental in weakening the cartel . |
| 11 | As the organization has expanded , the demand for manpower related information has increased in terms of volume , range and depth . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding this debate , what precisely has happened in terms of environmental change in the Sahel in the last two to three decades ? |
| 13 | As we have seen , it is relatively straightforward to explain how the penal crisis has arisen in terms of the contributions made by the different courts involved . |
| 14 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 15 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 16 | Erm but if you translate that into er er into days it 's quite a substantial amount and er erm again in our plan we 'd thought in terms of a complete MOS design er where the input would be probably more on the checking side , than actual on the , actually on the supervision . |
| 17 | She will be preparing to face the future , having come to terms to some extent with the loss of her previous expectations concerning it . |
| 18 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 19 | The surgeon had sounded a note of amused condescension as though he were betraying a colleague 's unfortunate weakness , wryly observed , which a more prudent man would have detected before beginning his medical training , or at least would have come to terms with before his second year . |
| 20 | Adoption should not be underestimated as a potential problem , and Howe ( 1990 ) estimated that there are approximately 600,000 relinquishing mothers in the UK — many of whom may not have come to terms with their loss . |
| 21 | Bats must have come to terms with the jamming-avoidance problem long ago . |
| 22 | Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest . |
| 23 | what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed , but because it 's a retrospective analysis you can not say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours . |
| 24 | I do not doubt that people in an earlier age may well have thought in terms of the kind of cosmic world picture in terms of which she herself thinks . |
| 25 | I mean I er er I mean I just do n't know how you , you begin and end with this actually I mean I really do n't and I mean I think quite frankly if Hydro Electric were to go out and say okay , we will fund the purchase of twenty houses four bedrooms each for the homeless right I would have thought in terms of doing something I mean I walk round Princes Street and I see those poor sods and I say to myself |
| 26 | Other passages were to be judged mistaken in terms of this criterion . |
| 27 | They will initially interpret a rise in the demand for and price of their product as a rise in its relative price and as implying a fall in the real wage rate they must pay measured in terms of their product . |
| 28 | He seemed to have come to terms with the end of his career but the fact he never spoke about his feelings was always a worry . ’ |
| 29 | I do hope that you 've come to terms with pregnancy now . ’ |
| 30 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |