Example sentences of "to terms [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 2 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 3 | At a 1988 Police Foundation Conference ‘ Coming to Terms with Policing ’ ( ed . |
| 4 | He must come to terms with living with this consciousness and with the inherent problems he will face in revealing this knowledge to the outside in an ethnographic account . |
| 5 | Moreover , he must come to terms with a new awareness of what he has previously accepted , perhaps without thinking , which under the intense microscope of social enquiry may well seem to verge on the ludicrous or to be morally indefensible . |
| 6 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 9 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
| 10 | It could be a rewarding form of teaching to help an uninformed but well-motivated student to come to terms with poetry , but it would involve time and leisure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For those who do not have much real competence in other languages , there is the possibility of coming to terms with poems in the older , more remote forms of English . |
| 13 | And yet we have n't come to terms with that . |
| 14 | Yet what pleased the Bath coach Jack Rowell more than the cold facts and figures was that his team had come to terms with Neath 's ‘ unique style of total rugby ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Either LIN buys the rest of the franchise it does n't already own , or it has to come to terms with McCaw . ’ |
| 16 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 17 | If its post cold-war generation is not to be continually confused by unexpected developments then they will need to come to terms with the dynamics of change . |
| 18 | Coming to terms with the idea that Sophie is different , Belinda finds making comparisons with so-called normal children increasingly meaningless : ‘ There is nothing abnormal about Sophie . |
| 19 | The meeting with Kremlin officials could mark another significant step by the Soviet leadership as it comes publicly to terms with the unpleasant truths of a hitherto denied past . |
| 20 | Jordan simply had to come to terms with political and economic imbalances . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , the only way in which a society can come to terms with its conflicting values is to prefer one value in some circumstances and another in different conditions . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 24 | In coming to terms with both he wished to pass beyond them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It tends to make life a bit dull at work and we 've tried to come to terms with that . |
| 27 | Your boyfriend is finding it hard to come to terms with the prospect of fatherhood and is taking his resentment out on you . |
| 28 | Gradually , with the constant support of her family and friends , Philippa learned to come to terms with her situation . |
| 29 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 30 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |