Example sentences of "had to cope with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the party of property the Conservatives had to cope with an electorate dominated by the propertyless , the advent of British socialism and the apparent threat to property posed by a reform-minded Liberal party . |
| 2 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 3 | Stuck behind Patrese , Berger had to cope with high water temperatures and a loss of power until a fuel pump failure caused retirement on lap 37 . |
| 4 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 5 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 6 | Soon , one field was not enough , and the request ‘ all in a good cause ’ — spread to Jane 's two other fields , so the horses , most of which did not belong to her , had to be moved to a farm , and she had to cope with angry owners . |
| 7 | Women had to cope with the dark , smelly ‘ cabinets ’ and first invite the rats to leave through the crumbling rusty holes . |
| 8 | Stanley also had to cope with epilepsy , a fairly common complication following a stroke . |
| 9 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 10 | Gradually , as time passed without this return occurring , Christians had to cope with a world that continued to exist , its end being postponed to an indefinite future . |
| 11 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 12 | They too had to cope with it . |
| 13 | One of the big changes we had to cope with , was learning to write with pen and ink . |
| 14 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 15 | Ardrossan harbour , still small and geared more to handling cargo , had to cope with large-scale passenger traffic . |
| 16 | The women , too , had to cope with all the household duties , including feeding men and hired hands with appetites honed by constant fresh air and exercise , with none of the labour-saving aids which most women took for granted . |
| 17 | In a survey by Childcare Vouchers of more than 400 working mothers , 72% of nanny-users said that childcare problems were among the most stressful they had to cope with . |
| 18 | The fewer people he had to cope with , the better . |
| 19 | But she had to cope with a foreign language too . |
| 20 | Rural communities were still the main focus for most Japanese , but even rural communities had to cope with the exigencies of the drive to industrialize . |
| 21 | Presidents in their dealings with congress had to cope with some extraordinarily powerful leaders . |
| 22 | The tasks of the poor law became more complex as parishes had to cope with , for example , trade recessions and outbreaks of infectious diseases , each affecting large numbers of people in the new towns and cities . |
| 23 | The period continued in the 1950s with the operation of the planning system proving capable of responding to a range of local situations , before , in the 1960s , it had to cope with the pressures of a housing boom , commercial redevelopment , a feared city thrombosis through increase in traffic circulation , and renewed problems from regional disparities . |
| 24 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |
| 25 | As a member of the cabinet which had to cope with the Irish famine , Clanricarde pressed hard for remedial measures , pointing out that from time to time ‘ an adherence to sound principle will cause an immediate sacrifice ’ . |
| 26 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately , ’ she went on , her voice heavy with sarcasm , ‘ he never actually got round to marrying my mother so , on top of everything else , she had to cope with the stigma of an illegitimate child . ’ |
| 28 | Margaret had to cope with Tom in the mornings , and Gina sat in the long silent room and watched the visitors who came round , talking in hushed voices as if the pictures would be offended , or the artist was hiding somewhere . |
| 29 | There they had to cope with an IMF adjustment programme which involved savage public spending cuts . |
| 30 | Vietnamese Communism had to cope with the problems of economic reconstruction in an area devastated by the years of war , and also with the integration of the South into the methods of social administration and economic management that were used in the North . |