Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of us need a few moments alone to come to terms with things . |
| 2 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 3 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 4 | ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’ |
| 5 | Much of the International 's efforts were directed at reinforcing the resolution of European socialists not to go to war with each other . |
| 6 | But since any arrangement would need the consent of Louis VII to be valid , he had somehow to come to terms with the French King — despite Toulouse , despite Auvergne , despite Becket . |
| 7 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 8 | ‘ Interested ? ’ she queried huskily , and , trying desperately to get to grips with herself — he could n't mean ‘ interested ’ interested , could be ? — ‘ You mean , interested in me as a journalist ? ’ she just had to find out more . |
| 9 | ‘ Then he must have switched it off when he persuaded Suzie not to return to England with her friends as planned . ’ |
| 10 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 11 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 12 | They were now to withdraw to corridors with a width of 3 km , along ( i ) the 315-km road , rail and oil pipeline running through central Mozambique to the port of Beira ; and ( ii ) the 540-km railway along the Limpopo river from the Zimbabwean border to Mozambique 's capital , Maputo . |
| 13 | The task was not simply to come to terms with Wagner 's music drama , but to reconcile his theory of it with his actual practice . |
| 14 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 15 | Throughout his journey Naipaul is preoccupied with India 's poverty and how to come to terms with it . |
| 16 | We sense there is more to it than that , but we have not known how to come to grips with it without giving ammunition to our opponents . |
| 17 | It is a delightful place to stroll through , as it is sufficiently small ( with a population of under 5,000 ) for a visitor readily to come to terms with its layout . |
| 18 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 19 | Intensive pre-operative teaching and preparation will help prepare Mr Reynolds for the process of learning how to adapt to life with a stoma . |
| 20 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 21 | He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 . |
| 22 | This cinema 's best attempt yet to come to terms with South Africa . |
| 23 | The time it takes to fully implement T.Q.M. and the amount of work involved may be something that most of us have yet to come to terms with . |
| 24 | A challenge that School Boards are yet to come to terms with fully is how they can contribute to the achievement of the school 's goals . |