Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to terms [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For an eleven year old schoolgirl , it 's not easy coming to terms with having a plastic eye .
2 At the time , Lineker was just coming to terms with the fact that his baby son , George , was battling against leukaemia .
3 When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy .
4 ONE OF two sprawling films ( Heimat being the other ) that marked Germany finally coming to terms with the war , relatively free of guilt .
5 Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings .
6 Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings .
7 The public and the teenage press were , in fact , already coming to terms with the punks , but these skins knew that no one could accept their brand of deliberate , mindless , gang violence .
8 The larger companies are already coming to terms with the new regulations .
9 But they , like the third Limerick club dominating the league — Young Munster — are only gradually coming to terms with the demands for 15-man attacking play .
10 Couples , second in the Sony rankings to Faldo , is still coming to terms with the adulation heaped on him after Augusta but is prepared to run the gauntlet again if it means winning a second Major .
11 The holiday was particularly useful for children who are still coming to terms with their conditions and may have been robbed of their self-confidence .
12 Woking , who knocked out West Brom two seasons ago , are still coming to terms with their first season in the Conference , but their Cup-fighting instincts are sure to resurface for their trip to Brighton .
13 This is when the pupil is still coming to terms with using a low vision aid and is not yet skilful in its use , but needs to read text and notes that are too advanced in content to be available in the large print of junior and early reading books .
14 ‘ We are , he said , at the initial stages , still coming to terms with what we need to do . ’
15 The local community is still coming to terms with the loss of the Trident contract four months ago .
16 Today at an emergency meeting with Union Leaders to discuss their future , they were still coming to terms with the shock of redundancy .
17 They 're still coming to terms with it .
18 Perhaps the teenage scribblers — not to mention the longer-in-the-tooth City commentators who helped to orchestrate last year 's departure of Robert Horton as BP 's chairman and chief executive — are still coming to terms with Financial Reporting Standard No 3 , the new format recommended by the Stock Exchange for presenting details of financial performance .
19 Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man .
20 Staff are still coming to terms with the decision to close the main part of the Junction factory within two years , making 100 workers redundant .
21 Now Giggs is quickly coming to terms with the facts of life .
22 The word processing market is rapidly coming to terms with desktop publishing , particularly on the PC .
23 Since they have been in Brazil things have not been easy but they have settled in well and are slowly coming to terms with the language .
24 She is slowly coming to terms with her past and exorcising the ghosts .
25 It is well known that the Princess wanted ‘ out ’ of the Royal Family , but to her fellow passengers it was also clear she is only now coming to terms with the fact that she really is out — and quite alone .
26 Ask Americans today who are only now coming to terms with the gross exploitation of native Indians and natural resources , which their forefathers accomplished in the name of ‘ progress ’ .
27 I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do .
28 She was fast coming to terms with the fact that there were two sides to this man .
29 Birds are somewhat stupid creatures and have a hard enough job even coming to terms with the ordinary , let alone the extraordinary .
30 WORKERS at a Merseyide firm were today coming to terms with the news that they will be out of work in the New Year .
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