Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 5 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 6 | ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’ |
| 7 | She went on to talk to children in the refuge creche and to ask the helpers if they managed to leave work problems behind when they returned home in the evening — ‘ otherwise , it must get so depressing for you . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Baldwin and both women agreed in court not to talk to newspapers about the case . |
| 11 | Article 16 is expressly declared not to apply to judgments concerning status or capacity of persons , fields in which certainty is essential . |
| 12 | Partnerships will do well not to accede to requests for financial support for the bread and butter resources of schools . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | TRANSPORT Secretary Malcolm Rifkind visits Darlington tonight to speak to members of the town 's Conservative Association . |
| 15 | On Monday , when Sara had left the house early to see to things in two of the toy shops on the other side of the county , he could find nothing at home that he felt up to doing . |
| 16 | The Routine Business Committee was set up to attend to matters of a routine nature , or those which have already been approved in principle by the Board or the Executive Committee and require further detailed work to carry them into effect . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With the way she was shaking he probably thought she was about to fall to pieces at any moment . |
| 22 | Throughout his journey Naipaul is preoccupied with India 's poverty and how to come to terms with it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |
| 27 | They suggest that clinical psychologists , with an understanding of psychological aspects of disability , may have a role to play in the development of services for older people with disabilities , and in training other health service professionals in how to respond to problems of disability in older people . |
| 28 | That is , how to convey to members of the public that their request or complaint is taken seriously even though it is impossible to act upon it . |
| 29 | Townsend pointed out that few new users are available yet to comment to inspectors on the reforms . |
| 30 | 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 . |